Hello dear friends.
Have you ever stopped to look around and wonder at the amazing technology we have at our disposal? If you’re 20 or younger you probably don’t know how good we got it. I certainly know.
I started blogging in 2008 and since then my laptop became one of my most precious gadgets, together with my tri-meter, sound recorder and my camcorder. I take these everywhere I go, because you never know when you might pass by a creepy place and want to check it out for ghosts and other apparitions, right?
I was happily typing another blog chapter of my trip to Bruges with my father when my laptop stopped working. It just froze. I thought it was the usual overheating problem and even checked it, which to my surprise, didn’t seem to be hot at all. I stared at it for a second just waiting for it to just get back to normal and tell me it was all a joke. Nothing happened. I decided to press the restart button, I hesitated for a second and then did it…the screen went black…and that was it…I waited…
Nothing.
Of course I panicked, of course I knew ALL my data was lost and my laptop had became a vegetable. Of course I knew that a good repair shop could fix it, to some extent. Of course I didn’t have the money to do it.
As I am actually posting a blog today, you may all jump to conclusions that this is a happy ending story…well, it kinda is, but not all of it.
I had to consult my mum first of all to see if we could afford to buy a new one. Rhetorical question no doubt. Then I enquired as to fixing this baby here. That was a yes. I ran to the supposedly cheapest shop I could find and as they told me the price I ran back home, with the laptop still broken. I had to wait another week to get paid and go back there. I implored the man to try and save my work, which he was happy to do it, for an extra 100 pounds. Ouch! I said yes without hesitation. I had a couple of long shifts the next days, so it took me longer than I was comfortable with to go back there and get my baby back. I was ecstatic to hear all my blogs and docs and info were safe and sound. They had to change the ram and the hard drive, they are old. It was a double surgery brain and heart transplant on the poor thing. Now it works like new!
Well, it was a happy ending, right? Wrong! The long account of my trip to Bruges wasn’t saved before the whole thing crashed and I lost it all. So I’ll have to type it again. Ever happened to you? Annoying isn’t it? Same when you type a massive email to someone and when you click send the internet goes down and you lose it all and have to retype that loooong email all over again.
Damn all this technology!
:-)
I’ll start retyping the Bruges trip and will post it soon. I haven’t forgotten I still owe some more Nancy letters to you all. I’ll get there, eventually. After all, I’m only a man, I’m not a machine ;-)
Love,
Miles
(off to work now)
