Hard drive crash!!

[Kyung]

The most dreaded three words in a court reporter's vocabulary.

Yep. It happened to me Friday morning. At times like these, you start to think about karma and what you've done in a past life that has brought you to this place. You then think about is it bec. I'm on the web too much.

Is it really a hard drive failure? If I reboot enough times, maybe a miracle will happen and it will work again. Alas, no such luck.

Was on the phone with Dell technician yesterday. Ran some memory tests. Oh, your hard drive is bad. Bleh!!! They will send me out a new hard drive. All you have to do is install it, and it will be as good as new. Sure.

Thank goodness I just backed up to my external hard drive on Monday. So I only three days of work. Most of which is at the proofer. But still a hard drive crash always brings you down. The uncertainty makes your stomach churn.

The other thing is I can't work. It's quite upsetting. I'm used to bouncing up at ungodly hours in the morning and knocking out a few pages. But no. Yesterday, I had to go shopping for some retail therapy. I really needed it. Otherwise, I would have been moping around the house all day. At least I was productive in the sense I got a lot of my Xmas shopping done.

Oh, well. Hopefully I'll be writing a blog about called up and running on Monday.

On the bright side, I can now take part in holiday events w/out feeling guilty that I should working on a transcript. But you know it will preying on the back of my mind.

[Christie Browner]

My reporter's desktop crashed this past week as well. Definitely seems like a good reminder to backup everything that is important to save!