Just a quick note from me and Chris to let you know a couple of things that have been going on with us. I haven’t had a chance to do any new posts on the blog for the last two weeks or so because of several different factors.
Chris had outpatient surgery last week on his nose. He is fine, but looks like a chipmunk that had been in a bad fight and lost. Thanks to all of you who put up with his tissue and bandages.
We have been having some problems with our email. For some reason my inbox is receiving tons of junk and my junk box is getting loads of our regular email. I am in the process of going through all of our junk mail to try and weed our regular emails out. It appears as if this has been going on for awhile now. If you have sent us an email and we have not responded — send it again. This has been very time consuming and I am still going through emails. Thanks in advance for your patience.
Last, but not least, we have also had hard drive problems. To anyone who uses external hard drives — 100 percent recommendation to use Seagate. Chris and I arrived home one night to hear “clicking” noises coming from one of the many external hard drives we use. To those of you who don’t know (me included) — clicking is not good. This particular hard drive stored about 500 gb of our most recent work. Although, we have other back-ups of this hard drive, it takes a long time to retrieve them for use. Chris immediately started working on it (hitting it actually) and ended up at Wal-Mart about 3:00 in the morning getting a quickie replacement, but he managed to get all of the data off of the drive before it died. It took him all weekend to get everything back in place. I don’t know if Chris has recovered from that little fright, but I do know there is a tad more gray in his hair.
We do have a back up system on our computer, but you never know what little glitch might happen. Advice for anyone who stores their images on their computer — have a back up. Hard drives do crash. Some info may be recoverable, but it also comes with a hefty price tag and sometimes they can’t recover all the material on a drive. If you burn your images to a CD — make sure you are purchasing the highest quality cd’s for storage.
I have always heard that things happen in sets of three — well, I am hoping we are on the high road at this point. Be sure and check out the new posts I have added below.
Enjoy!