My laptop crashed yesterday. All the addresses and spreadsheet I created for graduation announcements and RSVPs are on there. Of course, my external hard drive is at the resort, so I didn't save those things anywhere else. I'm so damn mad. Most of it should be easy enough to recreate, but I'll need to get addresses from my mil again. That was painful the first time so is going to be extra painful a second time. I ran home and swapped laptops with H (we use a desktop for the resort and just bought a new laptop at Christmas for this very reason) so I have some sort of computer so he is going to work on it tonight to see if he can at least get in there to get those files for me.
Look up hard drive enclosures, they're probably less than $30 on amazon. It basically turns your internal hard drive into an external so you can get files off of it.
I had a hard drive not start up after coming back from vacation and making sure it was unplugged in case of a power surge. I was able to get all my photos off of it (this was 10+ years ago when cloud storage wasn't really big).
I browse zillow almost daily and filter for new houses listed in the last day only. New houses are put on the market every day. In my area, it's a pretty good mix of options from fixers to lovely reasonable sized homes to 30,000 sq ft mansions that I can't even comprehend living in and everything in between. There will be a house for you!
We are staying in the town we live in now and there is literally ONE home that is even close to what we want, which is what everyone else wants to buy in our town - 4 BR, 2-3 baths, 2 car garage with a decently sized backyard because we want to build a pool. This one won't work because it abutts a wetland which is no bueno for digging a pool. I'm going to drive by the open house just for fun, I'm sure there will be a mile long string of cars parked. But this is the time of year when people list, so there will be more houses. We are just trying to be a more attractive contingent offer by already having our house listed or under agreement when we find something we like.
Oh. You're looking for a unicorn.
My unicorn came on the market literally at the right time (the night before I had multiple showings scheduled with my realtor during my divorce). I hope yours appears when you need it, too!
My laptop crashed yesterday. All the addresses and spreadsheet I created for graduation announcements and RSVPs are on there. Of course, my external hard drive is at the resort, so I didn't save those things anywhere else. I'm so damn mad. Most of it should be easy enough to recreate, but I'll need to get addresses from my mil again. That was painful the first time so is going to be extra painful a second time. I ran home and swapped laptops with H (we use a desktop for the resort and just bought a new laptop at Christmas for this very reason) so I have some sort of computer so he is going to work on it tonight to see if he can at least get in there to get those files for me.
Look up hard drive enclosures, they're probably less than $30 on amazon. It basically turns your internal hard drive into an external so you can get files off of it.
I had a hard drive not start up after coming back from vacation and making sure it was unplugged in case of a power surge. I was able to get all my photos off of it (this was 10+ years ago when cloud storage wasn't really big).
I'll definitely look into it! Thank you!
I'm hoping H can work enough magic for us to be able to get everything moved to the external, or at the very least to email me those 2 items.
Thoughts & prayers to all moms & dads registering for summer camps. We have past that session of parenting but it still gives me nightmares. I am a good resource and advocate for friends. One friend with a kindergartner sought my advice and took it! Basically, it boiled down to : - What camps do you want, what weeks? When day does registration start? - Have you put the registration date on your calendar and blocked out the time??
One mom knew it was going to be a hassle and was prickling against all of the urgency it required. Last month, we were talking about a popular day camp (in our area) and she said “Yeah, I heard that lots of weeks stay open for a while, so I’ll just pick one of those eventually. So & so said it won’t be a problem. ” So, I chimed-in, “Sure, you can a get spot for camp, if you don’t mind doing your own drop-off/pick-up, but the busses fill up pretty quickly, and there are 2 different routes for the bus stops and only one goes through your area”. She got alarmed pretty quick, “The bus? Nobody mentioned registering for the bus!” Yeah, that’s a whole other set of forms, young one.
The thing that annoyed me the most about camps were camp A schedule would come out and book in February then camp B in March and Camp C in April. If you waited to see what weeks camp b was available A would be full. They need to all release it early so you can plan before you have to book. Thankfully we are also past that phase for the most part just because our summers are so busy now.
I’m 100% over some of these kids in DD’s grade and cross everything that by combining with 2 other schools for middle school, we can avoid dealing with some of these assholes next year. I’m fed up with my kid being cussed at for just trying to do her work.
PREFERARTORY STATEMENT: I here for proper gender identification and respecting pronouns. I think recognizing that people have different pronouns is important, especially by cis people in positions of power.
I also think there are a ton of people who have started adding their pronouns to everything, always in a way that feels less like normalizing of something important to normalize and accepting people for who they are, and more like slacktivism. I've noticed this especially in the past couple months.
To be clear, I don't DISapprove. But internally I'm like huh. And I want to be like "what else are you doing?"
A vendor I worked with more than five years ago just tagged me as one of the five women he’s worked with who have had the most influence on his career. He said my passion for my organization made him passionate for our brand, I was a big encourager to him early in his career, and I helped him work effectively with international clients, which changed the trajectory of his work. I had absolutely no idea I ever even crossed his mind a single time after our working relationship ended. I was so touched, and I am now determined to send some thank yous of my own because if I can make other people feel like this, I want to!
A vendor I worked with more than five years ago just tagged me as one of the five women he’s worked with who have had the most influence on his career. He said my passion for my organization made him passionate for our brand, I was a big encourager to him early in his career, and I helped him work effectively with international clients, which changed the trajectory of his work. I had absolutely no idea I ever even crossed his mind a single time after our working relationship ended. I was so touched, and I am now determined to send some thank yous of my own because if I can make other people feel like this, I want to!
Do it! My H recently got a text from someone he worked with years ago thanking him for teaching him so much and H legit almost cried. It's such an easy way to make people feel good!