It hasn’t been the merriest of Christmases, I fear. On Sunday after Christmas, my family and I went to see an obscure indie film in the cinemas, in which the protagonist had a secret revealed and thought he could avoid the consequences with the help of a wizard friend, but this led to enemies from other movies coming to his universe, and things escalated from there.
The movie was good and the day was going well until we returned to the car to find the window shattered and my backpack stolen, including my passport (relevant to my attempts to return home), and my laptop (relevant to this blog), as well as some comic books (like my Fantastic Four collection I was using to take notes on FF#39).
There is a lesson about making sure everything is backed up that I may or may not learn.
All my notes for this blog are in flat text files which I knew weren’t directly backed up. However, those notes have all been transferred to this blog itself (except for the next couple entries). So the information isn’t lost, though it’s not as accessible as in text form, and I’m going to need to extract it all.
However, I also had a spreadsheet file–which I thought was backed up in the cloud–that helps me organize my reading and all of this. The information I need in that spreadsheet is all in this blog, but not in as compact or accessible a form, and I’m really pretty lost until I reconstruct it. It’s my notes on reading order and release dates and my ratings and such.
This is almost certainly going to delay the next blog entry. So please be patient and check back in a few weeks. I’ll hopefully get a new passport and get home and see my cats and reconstruct my spreadsheet and get back to work soon enough. As always, thanks for reading!
