My computer is very ill. A few weeks ago Husband adopted a new backup software. The system we’d been using did 99% of what he wanted, but he wanted that one other thing (I’ve no idea what because I don’t speak Geek).

However, the new software he installed created a problem with his new laptop. He’d verified mine was backing up all right, or so he thought. And then he had to reinstall stuff that was backed up from my laptop, but he made an error doing so, which he discovered yesterday. (I don’t pretend to understand all this or even know that I’m reporting it correctly.) He found out about this error because yesterday I opened my browser to a message there was a bookmark error. Roughly eight years of bookmarks are gone. Today my iPhoto library was missing hundreds of photos. WTF?!

Panic rioted within me, but I kept calm and shut down my computer. He’s been working on this all weekend. My bookmarks cannot be recovered from Camino. They are gone, baby, gone. My hard drive is corrupted, thanks to this new backup software. He was able to locate the photos on my laptop, and for that I am grateful (there are thousands of photos). But he has to do a total reinstall. He set up another laptop with an old Mac OS so I can use WP, surf, and check Gmail.

We have about five laptops in this house, because his side business (a software program he created) requires testing on the new Apples as they come out. So I’ll not be starved for Internet access.

This is a good reminder that everything is transient.