Disaster Struck

Well, I should have known better. My computer crashed yesterday, and wouldn't you know, I hadn't backed up any of my files for the past six months!

The last time I did, I had my manuscripts on two different flash drives, but the last time I saved them was about six months ago or more.

This means the work on The Vase that I've been doing since Penumbra sent me my second round of edits might be lost. My fingers are crossed that they are not. Right now, the guys at Fry's Electronics are working on my computer to replace the hard drive, and they said that in most cases they can recover the data, but there is always a chance that they can't. So again, my fingers are crossed.

It won't really be a disaster for The Vase. Because as far as The Vase goes, it means just redoing the last two weeks of going over those edits. I can do that again, and it will probably even be better.

But Killer Eyes hasn't been backed up since last June. That means all the work I did on that one since June might be gone. And that will be a shame. Even a disaster.

Why did I get out of the habit of backing up my files? Because I had a brand new Sony Vaio, that I believed wouldn't crash like that, that's why. No other computer I've had ever did that. Not my Dells, not my HP, and not any of the Apples I've had at work. Nope. Only the Sony did this. Sony. What I thought was the best, turned out to be the worst. It was only two years old. My family uses my old HP, and it's still going strong. Four years later, that is. I've had my Sony Vaio for two years and now it's caput.

So this means that Sony is not nearly as good as HP, or Dell, or Apple. Hey it's not like I abused it in any way. I treated it like gold. Kept it clean, stayed free of questionable websites, and had Norton Antivirus on it, and scanned it almost daily.

So no more Sony for me. If Frys can fix it, (I bought the three year service contract) then great. I'm typing this on a Lenovo which is my loaner from Fry's. By comparison, I'm liking it better than my Sony. But that's not hard to say when my Sony is caput. So here's to hoping Fry's can fix my Sony and retrieve my data. But if they can't, I'll never buy a Sony again. Period.