Depressed Julie

Well, friends, my lack of internet and website knowledge caught up with me over the weekend. For 36-hours, I lost every post from mid-October 2010 through March 5, 2011. That would be roughly twenty to twenty-five entries, plus pictures. Uh oh. My daughter sensed something was wrong, and saw me looking like that picture. Oh no…

First, I was shocked, thinking could this really be happening? Then just anger, at myself, because I have never run a backup of my database or any of my writing, and I should know better. I just figured there’s a guru  out there doing it for me. Wouldn’t you? Blogger, WordPress, all those sites… I imagine their mega-computers doing backups. In the end, I was just despondent and completely resigned that I lost all that writing. I had a drink or two, and a few deep breaths. It was just writing after all, hours and hours of writing and editing.*ugh*

Two people came to the rescue after some video chats and messaging. First, my cousin, bless him, sent me screen pictures of my posts from his RSS feed. Then, Sunday night, my brother flexed his website muscles and brought everything back (Cue angelic singing and rays of sunshine.) Whether this intense and potentially ulcer-causing scare was caused by the WordPress attack or a glitch in updating the application I use to write these posts… I’ve learned ONE thing. Backup. Backup again. Find a backup service. OY! Alright, two things. My brother is da man!