Seriously! I'm not kidding - I wouldn't kid about stuff like this... but you are NOT going to believe this! Yup, it's happened again, and not once, but twice! March, our dishwasher went ka-poot, fortunately we were able to get it fixed in about a week, just a valve... but then last week, my laptop computer stopped working. Yup, right in the middle of updating the website for the day care, it just froze up, and died right there and then. I've got great IT friends here in Wichita, and they took it in and confirmed my suspicions... It's dead Jim! I'm so upset that the data can not be recovered. Fortunately, all my family pictures are saved on our desktop at home, and I print out our pictures every year, so even last years pictures are in albums for the kids to see, so even if I lose the data, I've got a print, and so it wouldn't make the lose that terrible. But nonetheless, I've lost all the work I've done for the day care for the last 18 months, including all my lesson plans for the last year, all the pictures of the children for the last 18 months, and any graphics or files I had created are gone.
We are going to be able to get a new hard drive, but I've got to reinstall the operating system, and any programs I had on there. I'm trying to weight it right now if we should just purchase a new laptop or try to fix this one, and use it, like you would replace an engine in an old car, just for the sake that you've already paid for the car, in hopes you can get another 100,000 miles out of it.
Let my pain be a lesson to EVERYONE! Please, go spend $100 and get a good external back-up system. We will be purchasing one for the desktop at home, as well as a new one for the new/rebuild laptop.
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