Happy New Year

It happened Wed, Dec 27... sometime in the morning the hard drive of my laptop packed in, checked out, died, crashed.
And with it all the data on it.

I found this blog where the author describes going through the various stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, bargaining, acceptance. I admit that I brushed along such an experience myself in the last couple of days. Though I won't change the drive myself. The machine is still under (extended) warranty.

The drive is not irrecoverably damaged. I don't think the read/write head scraped along the surface. But recovery is expensive (and somewhat inaccessible in Bermuda). Are the files on my drive really worth hundreds of dollars? Or is it just sentimentalism that makes me wish I had them back.

Life goes on without having access to some photos, some old word documents, and other stuff. I just have to learn to adjust, and live without them. Some information was important, and I will have to re-acquire it. Some documents were valuable as I had poured time and effort into creating them. But nothing is irreplaceable. They can be recreated, if necessary--probably not exactly as they were, but better, in that when I have to rewrite a document, recreate a presentation, I have to take the here and now into consideration, not the there and then that lead to the original creation.

And so 2006 ends with the painful rearrangement of my (still somewhat disorganised) life. Maybe all things really do work for good to those who love God (Rom 8:28).
I read a small book, Who Moved My Cheese, this morning.
My hard drive cheese was moved. It's gone. Time to adapt, move on, improve, and reap the blessings of the Master Cheese Mover.

Happy new year!