In yesterday’s post, I mentioned how our computer crashed. I realized just how dependent we as a family, have become on our computer. Life revolves so much round our gadgets, especially the home computer.
One doesn’t realize how much gets done with the computer. Banking, connecting with friends via Facebook and Twitter. Daddy has a good old Goodreads account too. In our ongoing effort to save money, I look for new recipes constantly online too. For example, this evening I will attempt to make penne alla vodka for the first time. At least if that doesn’t work, I’ll still have vodka. I digress.
Once the computer went down, many emotions ran through both my wife and I. What do we do? How do we get this fixed? Damn Windows 7! I wish I had the above mentioned vodka last week!
Fortunately, we have a neighbor and friend whose livelihood comes from fixing computers. So when we happen to run into each other because of the kids a day after our computer went down, it was providence indeed.
I was immediately put at ease when I asked our friend, “what do you know about Windows?” His response, “everything.”
Needless to say this Sunday Morning Musing is coming from our newly restored desktop. Many thanks to our neighbor and friend. I also am grateful for the true sense of community we have with our neighbors. Lately our daily lives are bombarded with negative ideas and tragic realities. The sense of friendship and community we are fortunate to have where we live is refreshing to say the least. And maybe life should revolve more around people rather than our gadgets.
And one more thing, if you haven’t backed-up your computer, do it. Think of a computer back-up as health insurance for your computer.
The Dad In Me 
Yeah its about time I backed up my computer its only a few months old but I still haven’t tried booting up the old one that’s in its death throws to try and get all my pics and docs.
Backing up is really a good idea and easy to do. I picked a one terabyte external hard drive. We have literally thousands of photos of our little guy that are priceless.
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