Grrr, so I spent a good 2 hours yesterday desperately trying to backup my Jump Drive, which had decided to malfunction. If I plugged it in, in about a few seconds, I would get an error telling me that it had malfunctioned and to re-insert my Jump Drive (even though I hadn’t unplugged it). I had a horrible panic attack where I imagined all 170 pages of Morgan going down in smoke (which wouldn’t have happened because I have 50 pages online somewhere, and another 100 backed up on the computer), but imagination is still a potent thing. And I hadn’t backed up the 10 Modest Mouse songs that my friend, Eric, and so kindly given me; nor had I backed up my new recipes that I was in the process of transferring from laptop to computer; nor…well, you get the idea.

So, I backed up everything and then checked around until I found that OfficeMax was doing a deal on Sandisk Cruzers. They had a special for a 2gig for the same amount I paid for a 256meg Jump Drive a few years ago ($20, in case you’re wondering). Boy, how times change. When I picked up John, the first thing I said to him was, “We’re going to OfficeMax. I’m getting a Jump Drive. I need to have my stories in the palm of my hand, I need to know that I can take them anywhere with me — even the beach, if I wanted, not that I wound. Unless I took my laptop with me. But, you get the point.” His only reply was, “Um, OK. No problem.”

So now, I have more space than I will ever need on my Jump Drive and have named it Durga II, in loving memory of my old Jump Drive. Then, when I was clearing off everything from my old jump drive and wondering if I can be devious and sell it to Bookman’s for some credit (the lure of books can lead one down a dark path), I realized that it wasn’t the jump drive that had malfunctioned. I realized it was my Morgan folder that had! No wonder I hadn’t been able to keep the damn disk in long enough to copy Morgan, and had to resort to backups. I had been too panicky to really notice yesterday. Carefully, I deleted the malfunctioned Morgan 1 file at a time, and now…I think my old jump drive may actually still be functional. Hrm…

My mouse is also going. It’s my favorite type of mouse, a Microsoft Intellimouse that isn’t ergo metrically designed (yuck, I hate those misshapen kidney-bean mice). I bought mine second hand from Bookman’s, and even then the buttons were past their prime (I shudder to think what the previous owner did to it. Don’t worry, I cleaned the mouse with rubbing alcohol ). Which means I’ll soon need a new mouse, and while saddening, opens up a dizzying amount of possibilities in the wireless mouse frontier.

I’m wondering what’ll be next and hoping it’s nothing (or at worse, I’ll break a nail or something) because you know that old saying: misfortune comes in threes.

7:07 pm | Category: Journal | |

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