Fool Me Three Times
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Nothing is more frustrating than having to rebuild your life all over again once you get your computer back with a new harddrive. Such is the case with me today - rebuilding everything from scratch. All of my programs had to be reinstalled from scratch, then I had to update everything, then I had to make sure that I was able to find the emails with the action downloads that I use in Photoshop (thank God I didn't delete the emails!). Goodness, have I got a sore bottom from sitting all day and working on rebuilding my life.
I don't even want to think about all the documents and pictures I lost, much less all the passwords and license information in my password vault. And to think that the entire time I had access to iDisk and could have saved myself a lot of grief. Dang. I also had an external harddrive to clone my MacBook to, and although I thought I had done this several months ago, when we looked at the drive it was empty. Figures.
As a result I have had to rebuild everything - my address book, my iTunes library, my password and license information, my calendar, my sanity. Trust me when I say this is NOT fun. If you don't have to go through this, don't. And I am sure that in a matter of weeks or months I will need something or remember something that was on my old harddrive that crashed and I'll go hide under my covers and cry and beat my head against the wall.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Slowly but surely, my life on my computer is being rebuilt. BUT this time I'm going to be smart. You know what they say "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. But, fool me three times, and you will reap a reward." I know - huh? Put it this way, I didn't back up my computer the first time around when it crashed 5 years ago. Then I swore I would never let that happen again and I would back up regularly. Well, that didn't last and then last week "Crash" "Bang!" "Sparks!" "Fire!" Then everything went dark. Nothin'. Nada. Dead as a doornail. Crap.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I scurried my lifeless MacBook to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store and as he put his stethoscope up to the heart of the laptop he announced that it had died. No recovery. No jolts to bring it back to life would work. "Hand it over, lady - and we'll perform heart transplant surgery (oh, I mean harddrive replacement) on your computer." "Waaaaaaaah!!!! But ... but ... but.
Fool me three times -
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