At least as far as technology goes. As you may or may not have noticed, my blog was down pretty much all last week. Not just down but gone… and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Monday morning, I woke early, way too early, 4 am early. I decided to do some work on the ole MacBook before heading into the shower to get ready for work. I woke it up from sleep and checked a few emails… clicked on a few apps, and opened a file. The file opened and then my system seemed a little unhappy. I got a spinning beachball and started to worry. I tried to force quit the app but no dice. The finder was not even responding.

I decided to power off my MacBook and bring it back up. I mean usually that works. Usually. Today I was greeted with a grey screen, and a CLICK-CLICK-Spin. “That’s not so good” I thought. For those of you who ain’t quite a tech support person… that means…dead hard drive.

Now this is usually not a problem, an inconvenience for sure but not a problem as I’m quite obsessive about backing up my system. Once, years ago the hard drive in my PowerMac G5 died, and since that day… I follow the mantra “Back up early and often!” However, this weekend, my sister brought over her iBook, which is at capacity, no joke she has about 1GB of space left. I needed to move some data off her hard drive and on to another. I foolishly grabbed my backup drive… and tried to mount it. No dice. I don’t know why but it would not see it, so I thought maybe it was because the hard drive was formatted for an Intel Mac, so I decided to format it. I know, I know.. but I figured I’d just do what I had to do and back up my MacBook right away. Can you see where this is going? I never got the chance to back up the MacBook before the hard drive died. I had lost everything. I was so mad, and what made me madder was it was my fault.

All day Pinoyboy and i were chatting off and on about data recovery solutions, freezing the hard drive and how to get myself back together. I ordered a new hard drive and wondered if I should pay the 400-1900USD we were seeing to get my data back. I had hoped the freezing was going to work. I took it home and started to work on it. The freezing did not work, but I did find a backup on another hard drive from about a year ago so the world was NOT over, close but not over.

I thought things were turning around. Who knew my week was just getting started…