You don’t know how much you use it until you lose it. Suddenly I can’t answer emails from customers, do my blog, or print seed packet labels. Eeek, and my computer guy said my hard drive is shot, with all my files too. Yep, I should have backed stuff up. No, I didn’t. Bad me. I tried to buy another desktop at Walmart, but they don’t carry them anymore! I hate laptops! I’m using Will’s now. Our friend, Sherri, had it as she does our book work and was entering orders from Seed Treasures customers. With no other choice, I went to get it. I came home and tried to order a new desktop from Amazon but had forgotten my password. Nothing we did would work; phones, emails, etc. Double eeek! Whew, what a day!
Anyway, back to homesteading. Yesterday, Dara and Sherri again came to pack up seeds with us. Then Will went down to the cow yard and found a brand-new heifer calf! He’d been expecting that calf for weeks, but nothing happened. Luckily, it was a nice warm afternoon and the heifer had her baby on a nice big hay pile. Perfect! — Jackie
Well computers are a tool that is handy, but I tend to rely on it too much, then am disappointed when it breaks down in my hour of need.
At least you get to rejoice at the really important stuff…blessings of new life, and a harbinger of spring!
Life is about that simple eh😏
Technology is just great, until it isn’t, lol. Sorry about the crash. I once had been working on a project for work and had not backed it up and lost a bunch of data I had to reenter. Ugh! I feel your pain. Congrats on the new calf. Spring has wonderful surprises sometimes. Sending prayers for a blessed week!
I’m sorry to hear this about your desktop, Jackie.
My monitor went down on mine so couldn’t access anything.
I broke out my much disliked laptop and it kept kicking me
offline and finally was able to replace the monitor with one
my daughter had. I save a lot on an external hard drive so
if had to get to some things I could but still a pain in the arse.
I’m glad you could use Sherri’s and hope you can get on Amazon
soon.
I’m thankful for the healthy calf and a nice addition to the family.
May your evening be a whole lot less stressful.
Just a suggestion… You can use an external monitor and keyboard with a laptop and it will work just like a desktop. Don’t know what the better financial option is, but I wish you luck. Also… If you’re not saving your info in a cloud somewhere… Get an external drive to back it up. Enjoy that new baby. (Calf)
There are places that can sometimes recover the files on a crashed hard drive. We work from home and had a computer crash on us and even though we use external hard drives for files there were still vital files on the computer drive. All we did was pay for an external drive that the place put the retrieved files on and a reasonable charge for the work. We had to buy a new computer but, at least there was less stress when we had the retrieved files to work with.
Hate to say it but I learned years ago to never leave anything on a computer that you are not willing to lose. Anything important I print off and file. Anything for long term reference is printed off and put into a folder. As handy as a computer is it does have its faults. On another note how about an article on onions. Saving seeds and raising from seeds. As easy as it is supposed to be I am having horrible luck!
Oh Know! nothing backed up:( sounds familiar. we get so used to electronic storage, mail, internet )that we are instantly thrown! when it happens. I still do my accounts on paper, never trusted m husbands file system,. hope Wills computer has some of your files. i too hate theses lap tops. congratulations on a healthy heifer! thank goodness temps are more pleasant for calving. such a frustrating time for you. at least you have your starts sprouting around the wood stove :) just finished getting my tomato s and one last pepper i d forgot. starting these all in the recommended peat pots. looking forward to no dampening of or fungus!( that seem to plague me )
praying for a better week ahead for you. take care