I’ve been having problems with my cell phone for about a year now. I’m on my third battery since I got the LG and it is starting to get real irritating. The last one would go dead after a couple of hours, but this one just shuts my phone off at inopportune moments and I don’t realize it until several hours have gone by. Rather than dealing with Verizon this time I may just get a couple of extra batteries from the place where I got my last cordless phone battery. They have replacements cheaper than I can get them at Verizon, at least the last time I checked. I only have a few more months and I can get a new one anyway.
April 14, 2007
Going to California – Day Two
When we pulled out of Dallas the next morning we headed north into Oklahoma City and took I-40 west back into the panhandle and into New Mexico. We drove most of the day with just bathroom breaks and a couple of meals. We did get to Route 666 in western New Mexico that evening and had to stop and get our pictures taken under the highway sign. Since it was twilight and I had left my flash at home they are pretty shitty pictures. The only thing that shows up on one is the sign that says 666, and on the other my friend Chris’ body is there, but his head is a blur.
Driving through the Rockies was wild. We hadn’t had much sleep and quite a bit of the trip is a blur. We kept on driving through the night after that. At some point early the next morning we stopped at the Grand Canyon and slept for awhile in the car. We crossed the continental divide at some point either before or after our stop there. Except for a brief stay in Dallas we had driven two days straight. Once the sun came up we got out and looked around the Grand Canyon, took some pictures, and left.
After the Grand Canyon we drove straight to Las Vegas, or our only other overnight stay. We spent most of the afternoon and evening hanging out in Vegas. Since I wasn’t 21 we got thrown out of Caesar’s Palace 🙂 and ended up hanging out at the Holiday Inn which in Vegas is still a casino. If I remember correctly (it’s been 20+ years) it was some kind of circus theme, a little more family oriented than the rest.
Once again it is time to start getting ready for work. I think perhaps I will sit down this afternoon and try to remember the time-line better, because the entire trip at least out to Vegas is one big blur. It would help if I didn’t type these right after I wake up. Even if I don’t remember properly I will write more about the trip later. This is my Open Track-back post for the weekend of April 14th-16th.
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Online Backups
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I’m glad that I came across this because it’s been a couple of months since I made a good backup of my computer. That’s one of those no-brainers that a lot of people just don’t seem to do as often as they should. Sometimes the things that are easiest to do are the hardest to do and backing up data is one if those things.
If you’ve ever had a system crash where you lost all of your data, you know what I am talking about. It sucks to lose everything that you’ve worked on for months. I’m sure for some people it would even be longer than that. There are several different choices when making backups. Now that I am running Vista it is even easier, but most people still run Windows XP or something older, or perhaps a Mac. Backing up data is not that easy, and restoring it is even harder. I don’t trust anyone else to do it for me either. There are places, “Geek Squads”, that you can take your computer and have them back up your entire computer, but they won’t give any kind of guarantee that all of it is saved or even accessible for that matter.
Backing up over the Internet is one more option. Online backup is easier than you think. Usually you can get set up withing five minutes or so and it’s pretty cheap. Generally speaking it’s pretty cheap as well, about $2 per gig of data. That’s particularly nice if all you are backing up is documents and really important stuff. That’s generally what I do. The operating system and everything else I can restore from DVD and then my docs are kept in a separate backup as well.
I am getting ready to make a backup of my web site as well. I have most of my blog entries archived, at least up through the 1st of April but the mp3s and pictures are not. I should be able to save most of the site offline so that if there is a system crash I can get up and running again pretty easily.
If you don’t make regular backups, you need to ask yourself what would happen if your hard drive were to die right now. What would you lose?