Share the Joy: Averting Disaster

My joy post will be a little on the light side this week.

On Monday morning, I woke and, as usual, went up 

to my office to check email

but

found a message that said,

more or less,

"Your hard drive is toast. Back up your files

and find an electronics recycle station."

So I went and bought an external drive

and clicked on the button

to have the computer do a back-up automatically.

It failed four separate times.

Oh no, I thought, it's

if I can't find a way around this obstacle.

I'd backed up my document files a while ago,

but there was a lot of writing done on my memoir

and the manuscript I'm almost finished with

called Riding the Divorce Roller Coaster.

I breathed deeply and tried not to imagine the worst.

I can always write on a

I thought, and that brought a smile to my face.

But not as big a smile

as starting the hours-long process of manually saving 

all the stuff on the dying swan of a hard drive

and finding that -- unlike the auto-transfer --

it worked!

Woo hoo -- I didn't lose any of my work in progress,

or any of my client files.

And I've got a new system in a box

to set up and then load 

with the contents of the now-crammed external drive.

What sparked the fire of joy in you this week?

Notice joy.

Cultivate it.

Celebrate it.

Share it.

 

1. do a post that tells and shows what gives you joy.

2. capture the URL of the specific post and paste it into 

the Mr. Linky box along with your info.

3. Visit other players and let their joy infect you.

Leave them a comment because everyone

 enJOYS getting positive feedback.

Let's keep the epidemic of JOY going!