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Let this be a reminder to you too!

Ruth Ayres

I almost lost this:

circa 1984
It’s not quite a tragedy, since it is something I could have recovered. Granted it wouldn’t have been much fun and I would have been grumbling on the inside about the time it takes to collect and scan old photos, especially old photos I’ve already scanned. Still, it was recoverable.
 
Other stuff, like say all of my lesson plans, assessments, and work from the past 12 weeks wouldn’t have been recovered. It would have been recreated.
 
My most recent drafts for THE book were recreated.
 
But . . .
 
Friday night my patient-with-stupid-gadgets of a husband and I spent most of the night fiddling with the incredibly-ill external hard drive which I’ve used every-single day since the day I got it until the day it got sick.
 
And . . .
 
We recovered everything.
 
And . . .
 
I promise — pinky-promise-cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promise — to regularly back junk up.
 
Promise. 
(You should make this promise too!)

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9 thoughts on “Let this be a reminder to you too!”

  1. Be still my heart, my brother reads (and commented) on my blog. 🙂 Reading Jeff’s comment brought back some memories I haven’t thought about for years. Maybe when we teach students to collect photos for their notebooks, we should also teach them to show the photo to others and find out what they remember.

    And Stacey, it is totally me. Usually I don’t wear such BIG glasses, though. 😉

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  2. Shorter maybe, but definitely still cooler. If only that china doll knew what was in store for her face. Glue just couldn’t fix a mark like that…. (if that’s the same doll, you had so many I can’t remember)

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  5. Actually, that’s my “little” brother (when he was still littler than me). We had just gotten a package from my grandparents who lived in Arkansas and mom snapped the photo as we displayed “the goods.” 🙂

    Andy & I didn’t meet until I was a senior in high school . . . but that’s another story. 😉

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