When a hard drive starts clicking ...

For anyone who knows me, you know I like backups. (I keep them in a safe deposit box just to make sure they don't get lost.)

Unfortunately, the inevitable happened to me and I lost a hard drive. Well, it was just one drive and I have a couple, so it was not too bad. (Plus I really didn't lose any files I need, because I take regular backups.)

However, what I have lost is time.

Oh, the plans that mice make are probably better then those of men, but I decided if I need to replaced a drive, I was well overdue for an os upgrade too. I estimated it would eat a day watching my system get rebuilt.

Well, the whole weekend is over and I have my new os and some of the redistribution of files done, but now I am working to fix a number of other things that broken because I have a new os.

I suppose this is why I had not upgraded my linux system since 2008; I've got too much integrated into the system for just a couple hour upgrade.

The net effect is I ran out of time to do anything other than this blog post this week. Hoping I'll have something more interesting to say next week.