Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, computer triumphs, computer woes, persistence, Thoughts on August 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
For whatever reason, today has been filled with technical and other issues. I’ve spent the last few hours troubleshooting a number of different problems, but happily have found my way through most of them.
The lesson? Even if you’ve tried everything, step back, reassess, and try again. You never know when conditions may have changed and that thing you tried half a dozen times will suddenly work.
Hooray!
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, computer triumphs, computer woes, ideas, writing on January 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What kind of day is today? The kind where I discover that at some point during my recent computer update, several important files were overwritten by earlier versions of themselves.
Sure, that’s the stuff of fiction, and authors could have a field day building a world where people can buy younger versions of themselves. In my case, however, I wouldn’t want to slough off a decade of experience and I really didn’t want to lose three months of data.
Happy news, however! I am paranoid about such things (the data part, not the “waking up to find that someone has siphoned off years and you’re left to bumble around in a world that has moved on without you” part).
Backups. I have many (many) backups. One of them came through.
I spent too long rescuing files from the depths of this software update, but 1) rescue them I did, and 2) I came up with a fun new story idea. So it’s all good:)
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J.R. Johnson 
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