It was a regular Tuesday morning at my house. I was at my desk on my computer, working on booster club stuff. Still had a LOT to do. I was minding my own business. And then it happened. Things were moving a little bit slowly with my computer that morning and that's fine, I was trying to be patient and just finish what I needed to do. Then, it appeared. I had only ever heard of it prior to this day. Had not heard good things about it and had really hoped to never see it. The Blue Screen. It just showed up with no warning. Too bad I didn't have that robot from Lost in Space flailing his arms, shouting "Danger! Mrs. Bragg!" and he could've added, "your computer is about to crash!" I would have felt so much better and maybe I could have taken a quick minute to back up all of the terrific files on my computer and maybe I could have even done a back up of my pictures. But then, that would have been so lucky for me and I wouldn't really have a story about my computer crashing. Right?
I haven't had a good cry in a while. I held it together (emotionally) for a few days in hopes of getting good news about my computer. I sent it off to the first person, who, after a few days didn't give me good news. He texted me the bad news. Nothing he can do with it. I began to cry. Then I began to sob. I heard Chandler knock on Austin's door and say "mom's crying." There I am sitting on my bed boo-hooing. Andy is trying to console me, Austin and Chandler weren't real sure what to do. Everyone was really nice to me the next day though. :-)
I feel sort of silly talking about it now. I don't really have a good answer to why I'd never backed up the files on my computer. Yes, I said never. And I don't really have a good reason why I didn't listen to my husband and just do those (at least) monthly back ups of my pictures. I'll go ahead and insert here that I do have a back up of my pictures, but it wasn't as recent as I'd like for it to be, so pictures weren't a total loss. Ah, sigh of relief before you finish the story.
The hard drive has made it's way to Orlando to Papa Bill. He's been out of town, but when he gets back, I'm hopeful that he can give the drive his magic touch and all of my files and pictures will make their way back to me soon. And just in case The Blue Screen decides to pay you a visit ... make sure you're doing regular back ups on your computer.
