In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for a few
weeks, I’ve been busy as Santa. It was
a very long season with many visits and events, and only a few hours off. I think I’ve got the best job in the world.
Also, I write many months ahead of posting, and I had over
thirty finished stories ready to place into the blog. I stored them on a portable hard drive with two other portable
hard drives used as backups, but on December 3rd I plugged in my
backups and main storage units, turned on my computer and watched as my mouse
pointer began to move rapidly on its own.
I realized someone was remotely accessing my computer, so I switched off
my internet (an external switch on the front of my computer), and I shut down
my computer. A reboot without the
internet activated quickly revealed both my backups to be erased and
overwritten with a single huge file, and my main storage drive was about
two-thirds erased. All of my stories,
and most of my research data were simply gone.
I took the drives to a recovery specialist only to be told a few days
later nothing could be recovered on the backups, and the only thing they could
recover on the main storage drive were files of photos of purses and wallets,
none of which were mine.
It may take me a while to get more stories posted, but bear
with me as I try to rebuild. I don’t
seem to run out of stories, but it takes me a while to get them into print.
Thanks,
David