Computer woes

Usually my computer is my buddy - I spend a lot of time with it, way too much time in fact. But this week it has not been very nice to me. Started on Sunday night with the realization that my regularly scheduled backups to my external hard drive haven't been working for a good couple weeks or so. Find out that the cause for this is that there's a corrupt file on the external drive. After doing some research on the internet and talking to my computer geek hubby, we came to the conclusion that the only way to fix it is to format it and start fresh. Great, that means I have to backup everything that's on there onto CDs and DVDs. We're talking about 30,000 pictures plus other miscellaneous files. Yeah, I'm still working on that today.

Next, on Monday morning I get an email from my brother to my personal account, saying that the contact page on my website wasn't working- so he couldn't email my business account, he didn't know the address. Ok, fixed that- but feel really foolish because that means that for however long that page wasn't working- people had NO way of knowing how to contact me. Oooh, that's not good.

Next I get a call from my husband saying that he's trying to email me but it won't go through. Aha! That explains why I haven't received anything in my inbox since Friday! Ok, so I fixed that and then got prepared for the backup of calls and emails to come in. Received a few of those, a couple of which were requests for some birth announcement samples. So I go to open up my photo editing program (Adobe Photoshop), but it won't open! Oooh, that is definitely not good. I use that program for everything! After trying all day to get it up and running, i turns out I need to wait for a disk to arrive from the company and then reinstall it. I was hoping that I could download at least a temporary version of the software off the net to use until it arrives in a few days. No such luck on the full version, but I did find a very basic version, which is what I am using now. Not ideal at all, but hopefully it will get me through the next few days.

In retrospect, I really believe that all of this was God's way of forcing me to slow down a bit. Not being able to spend so much time working at my computer the past couple of days has really been a blessing. I'm actually surprised that my internet connection is still working, because that would've really slowed me down!