My Lucky Stars

My computer has returned to life!

It's really a wonder that we are where we are in terms of the technology that we have. We are pretty heavily accustomed to using it every day, and all of the things that make life a lot easier when we do.

I recently experienced a bit of a bout of computer issues. I accidentally made a silly mistake and locked myself out of my computer entirely! If you are familiar with the technology space, you may know what BitLocker is. Basically it encrypts your computer to prevent any bad actors from modifying the various things that come along with the hard disk and other things. It's annoying when it doesn't work.. but it sure comes in handy when it does!

I made a super amateur mistake, in that I was making some changes to my computer and I didn't back up ALL of my files. I've got a decent little backup of some really important things, but for the most part a lot of the other files I work on and keep up, were completely gone if I didn't have a way to get back into my computer.. that really annoyed me! Lol. You bet your sweet tits that I am backing it up right after I finish this post!

I think the thing that really surprised me was how much I relied on my computer. Sure I have my phone and stuff, which is what I do most of my Hive engagement on, but my computer is an integral part of my day to day life, that it was really surprising how much I missed having it! I also didn't want to go around fucking it up further.. lol so I didn't turn the thing on.

I ended up calling in a favor with the place that I got the laptop, which I still communicate with from time to time, and when I had them help me figure out what my key was, it turned back on as normal! I was shocked that's for sure, but holy fuck was I happy! I was really just upset about all of the files that I was going to be losing if I couldn't get back into it.

I spent a pretty good amount of time over the last few months organizing things and cleaning up my computer. I think one of the issues I had was that I didn't take incremental backups of the data, and that's something that I am for sure going to change after this experience. It's better to have SOME type of backup than no backup at all.

The even funnier part is that I work in the technology space, meaning we do backups of things before we make any changes all the time at work, and if we don't then we are likely to get in trouble. Did that same type of mindset happen to float on over to the personal side? LOL Nope, not this time! I think that's one of the other things that bothered me, but at the same time made me laugh. Do as I say not as I do, type of thing.. oh well, at least now we are back in business!

What about you, have you gotten lucky and found out that the things you thought were gone, were actually recovered or recoverable? How did you feel after? Let me know in the comments!