So my hard-drive failed on me.
I was in the middle of designing the maps for my wedding invitations when my entire system completely locked up. First I thought it was just Illustrator but then I realized that my MenuMeters wasn’t updating and the time wasn’t even adjusting. So I did a quick hard reboot only to be served with the blinking Question Folder of Death. After another subsequent reboot or so in desparation hoping it would will itself back to life, I heard the awful *clunk, clunk, clunk* sound coming from my hard-drive.
Now I’m a pretty avid backup person, usually backup a couple times a week to make sure a hard-drive failure like this doesn’t destroy me. Unfortunately, since I’ve moved several months ago I hadn’t taken the time to setup my backup technique and therefore, I’m hosed.
Months of photos, design work, business papers, addresses, RSS feeds, and my freaking wedding invititation designs (which luckily had finished printing mere hours before it died) all gone forever.
Picking Up The Pieces
So now I’m back on my originally tiny 60gb MacBook hard-drive (as opposed to my previous 100gb) and pretty much all my old stuff is gone.
Through the mourning however, there is a little bit of joy in the freshness of a new clean install. And I can’t quite decide if losing all my old RSS feeds (over 200) is a huge loss or a great relief.
Well, I gotta run, it’s about time for a backup sync.