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!
Our deepest sympathies, shock, and outrage! If the genuine valuables could be replaced with money, we would open a GoFundMe for you – but there is no replacement for data. With my nomadic existence, I’ve been relying very heavily on Dropbox (ideally budgeted for me, with some unintuitive interface), GDrive (intuitive, but constantly changing what it does and doesn’t do), and Degoo (outstandingly budgeted, but no interface to speak of) – any of which I recommend.
If there is aught that we can do (Donate brain cells for the ultimate cloud storage?) that comes to mind?
Kind offer of help appreciated, but I don’t need anything except patience. The issues will all resolve themselves with time.
I have a macbook with icloud, so everything is backed up if I save it in the right folder. I had many things saved in the right folders, and a few things not.
Oh no! That’s awful news Chris! I know you’ll be able to reconstruct what you lost, but that really really hurts. 😥 Thinking of you!
I’m truly sorry to hear that, Chris. It’s a shame that there are people out there with that type of mindset. Best wishes on getting everything back up and running. You have one of the finest blogs out there.