I have not disappeared... When it
rains it pours, so they saying goes. First, I'm in the middle of re-organizing
my home office, so I dismantled my photo area and I haven't been able to take
some good pictures. Second, I have some needy co-workers at the moment and thus
have not been home to hang out on the computer. Lastly, most devastatingly, I
was going to post a swatch of Funky Fingers yesterday when....I get a
warning/alert my hard drive is corrupted, blah blah blah... "Enter your
credit card to purchase license". I think not! So I turn off my computer
and reboot twice. The warning will not go away and I am locked on this screen
that wants my financial information. I was able to do a hard drive restore back
to April 20th, but in the process managed to lose all of my photos. ALL OF MY
PHOTOS, people! -And a few documents, and some spreadsheets, and PHOTOS. I had about
five postings lined up and now they are gone. GONE like dust in the wind! Sigh... Well it serves me right;
I've been too lazy to back up and hence my demise.
So, I kindly ask for some patience
from my readers, while I pick up the pieces. On Friday and Saturday, I plan on
painting my office. I chose a nice, neutral, cream color, called Ballet White,
by Benjamin Moore paints. That will
eliminate the blue cast that some of my photos have. I also bought a several
bookcases and matching CD/DVD shelves from IKEA and will be putting them
together. I plan on storing and organizing all my polishes in the two tall CD
shelves. I have outgrown my little wheel cart which was holding about 120
bottles, I might be at 150 now.
Here's a photo to a new beginning, kind of. I bought some
ranunculus from the grocery store (they don't have them very often), and they
are one of my favorite flowers. The stems look like ostrich necks, and the petals look like intricately layered tissue paper.
More to come!
OHMYGOD I cant totally relate to that! I feel sad to not see those photos you have lined up BUT let's just take pleasure into thinking you'd be shooting once more so you have more reasons to be creative again! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat I normally do instead of saving photos on my drive before posting is i draft it. Like if i have a photo ready for posting but the text isn't complete yet, I draft it so that im sure that i wont lose the photos since they're already hosted.
Hope that helps!
That's a great idea Kumi, thanks!
ReplyDeleteomgsh that totally sucks =[
ReplyDeleteyeah i do what kumi does too--i always upload my pics right away so i can delete them soon after. i do everything on my laptop and i don't always have my external on me to store my pics. i try to be as space efficient as possible since im on a windows pc and i don't want my laptop slowing down anymore than it should