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Stupid Change Over
By Nancy Lindquist | March 13, 2007
I lost several posts when we changed to the new server, yesterday. I am kicking myself, because I don’t have backups. I just don’t have time to back up my posts here. I wish I did, but let’s face it, mommy, writer, publicist for my work and training for my triathlons takes more time than I have in a day.
So they’re gone and I’m sad, but life goes on and sitting around sucking my thumb is not going to make it better. Which is not to say I am not pissed off. I am.
Losing things is not really a big deal to me. I’ve, literally, lost everything I owned. Hurricane. You cry, then get up and go on, because life goes on.
Writing is different. Once something is out of my head, and on paper, it’s gone forever. I can’t get it back, not the way I wrote it and I don’t have time. New ideas pop up all the time and I have to seize them. Not just about stories, but about how to attack a problem, get motivated for something big, live my life. It’s crowded in there. I’m someone who spends a lot of time imagining. I’m sure my teachers hated me in school. I spent a lot of time daydreaming. Still do.
So the loss of the words hurts much worse than the loss of things. Still, crying won’t bring them back. Nothing will. It’s just get up and move on. I guess that’s all I can ask of myself, huh?
