My external hard drive appears to be dead as the proverbial doornail. This is very distressing. Some things I can salvage elsewhere but pretty much everything I’ve done in the past year or so is apparently gone. *sigh* All my writing files. All my genealogy files. All my clipart. All my music I didn’t have loaded on my iPod. All my podcasts. It’s going to be a chore recreating it all. Some of it may never get recreated.
We’ve had another celebrity death. Dixie Carter who played Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show Designing Women died yesterday at the age of 70. No reason for her death has been released last time I looked.
Reading: I’m still reading Adjusted to Death. I didn’t get as far as I’d planned because in an unusual move for me, I fell asleep 
while reading! And I slept for six hours. Guess I was tired. 
Sorry about the hard drive. I hope a computer repair person can salvage your data.
Comment by Dru — April 11, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
I was VERY sad about Dixie Carter today!
She was a terrific actress and I loved her elegantly sophisticated/get-things-done southern attitude.
I sympathize about your computer. I had that happen once, and I lost part of a manuscript that I forgot to backup. No fun at all. Hope you can get it fixed soon, and that all your stored info can be recovered!
Comment by Alyson — April 11, 2010 @ 6:48 pm
I sympathize about the hard drive. That’s a pretty devastating loss!
Comment by Anonymous — April 11, 2010 @ 8:11 pm
We lost an external hard drive last year. Every financial record we’d had on Quicken was almost lost. I hope you can recover some information, I know how disheartened you must be.
I was sad to hear about Dixie Carter. I loved Designing Women……
I hope you’ve had a lovely day!
Comment by Brandy — April 11, 2010 @ 8:33 pm
OH.. so sorry about your drive! I’ve lost things (one a complete novel) twice in computer crashes, so now I back up three ways: external hard drive, flash drive and the really important stuff I email to a special account.
No, I’m not paranoid. Why do you ask?
Comment by Marianne — April 12, 2010 @ 4:26 am