Modern Frustrations

I settled into my studio this morning for what was to be a productive full day's work and within minutes that plan crashed along with my computer.

It really had not ever given me any problems, no funny noises, no odd screens ... just an ratcheting noise, a freeze up, then failure to re-boot.

Unfortunately, I've been meaning to get an off-site back-up for that computer, but just had not gotten around to it. Most of my writing for the last three years is on that hard-drive.

Luckily I've backed up a lot of my writing on flash-drives and always print out a hard copy of everything, so none of my writing is lost. But the business I do for a couple of organizations I work for has not been backed up.

To make this even more frustrating, I'm on day 11 of my car being in for repairs and I'm juggling rides.

I always think writing is such a low-tech profession. All you really need is paper and a pencil - but take away those modern conveniences for a while - and I'm struggling and running in circles and not feeling productive at all!