After 5 long days without my Macbook, I am back. It was absolute torture. In the middle of posting a blog on Friday, August 7th, my screen froze. I thought nothing of it and rebooted the computer, hoping that it had saved a draft of the post. When I turned the computer back on, it was eerily quiet and all I got was a grey screen and a folder/question mark flashing. My heart literally jumped out of my chest. I immediately called the Apple store and hearing the panic in my voice, the receptionist asked me what happened. She said the earliest they could bring me in was Sunday afternoon. 2 days without my Mac. I thought that wouldn’t be too terrible. I could read a book and catch up on some TV. Sunday came and when I brought the computer in, as soon as I told them what I saw, he said, “Oh, that’s not good. Maybe you’ll be lucky, but you probably lost everything”. He plugged my computer into his and of course, couldn’t find my hard drive. There you have it. Everything gone. In a second. My resume, my pictures, my music, my tax returns. You name it, it was on my computer. Basically it was like a lifeline for me. I was attached at the hip with it and all of a sudden it was taken away.
I had over 1,000 photos and videos of Harry that were now gone. The Mac “Genius” said that the hard drive was now property of Apple, that was their policy. I basically broke down in tears in the middle of the store. I explained that Harry had passed away and that was all I had left. He said he understood and made an exception. I think he just wanted me to stop crying. He said I could bring the hard drive to a data -recovery service, but last year, he paid over $800 to retrieve one document off of his hard drive. I almost started crying again. Plus, it would be another 3-5 days without the computer. I sucked it up and handed it over. For the past 3 days, I have been using my blackberry to go on Twitter and Facebook but it would not allow me to update my blog. I was hoping everyone didn’t think I abandoned them. You truly don’t realize how much you rely on your computer until you are without it for 5 days. I literally kissed it when they gave it back to me today. Maybe a little extreme, but I was so happy to have it back.
I had all my pictures and music on my iPod, thank goodness. I will be able to retrieve the music and the pictures with a program made especially for an instance like this. The only thing is the pictures will all be low-resolution, but I will have them nonetheless. First, I am trying to reinstall all my programs and bookmarks. I will get onto Entrecard ASAP as well…I’m sorry to everyone that I wasn’t able to drop for 5 days. It’s nice to be back in touch with the world! I missed you guys!
