My Luck Strikes Again · 1:43am Jan 8th, 2015
Yeah, I'm writing this in the heat of the moment, but I hear that's the best time to relay information. Keeps everything in the open.
I write everything on a flash drive, mostly because I use so many computers in a single day that I don't like the dependence of having to resave everything twice over when I'm working. That being said, I always keep my flash drive on me in order to have access to a computer when I need one, so I can always write. That is until today, where mysteriously, suddenly, I can't find it.
Apparently I lost my 64GB flash drive, with all my writing, notes, and work materials on it. I have back ups, but the 16,000 words for the next chapter in FSaH is gone, as well as all my notes for Dealing with Fate and Knowledge. That's not even to scream about all my work for my actual job!
So... yeah, for you guys? Delays, lots of them probably not another update until next month if I'm lucky. Sorry about that, but this kind of put me in a massive funk away from writing. Not dead, not giving up, hopefully, just... ready to hurt myself.
Enjoy the rest of your evening.
Give it a day, let your mind sit on where you last had it - check behind the bed, in old pants, other bags, etc. If you go frantic, you won't ever find it. It'll turn up. Things like that always do.
It sucks, yeah, but don't fret just yet. It could be located and awaiting you in a lost and found somewhere. Retrace your steps, clean your room? Maybe it'll pop up. Good luck!
And don't hurt yourself! Especially not that important head of yours
Oh fuck.
~Skeeter The Lurker
You don't want to hear this right now, but the cloud is your friend because it doesn't go missing. Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, there are so many options. I can't even comprehend keeping that much irreplaceable data on a flash drive, so many things could go wrong with that plan.
Guess what I'm missing? A micro SD card, smaller than my pinkie finger, with over a hundred dollars worth of stuff on it. At least flash drives are bigger. I always find mine in couch cushions, so you should probably check there.
As for flash drives themselves, I don't recommend them. If you lose them, you're screwed. You should keep your stuff on onedrive, google drive, dropbox, etc. Your computer could explode, then be eaten by a dinosaur, then your whole house could somehow fall off of a cliff and into a volcano and your files would still be safe.
I know a guy who was working on a film set. Fourteen hour working day, non-stop, everyone was tired and stressed, and he pulled the SD card out of the camera to put it on the computer.
It didn't slot in properly, so he twisted it 180 degrees. Still didn't fit in, so he twisted it 180 degrees. Still wouldn't fit in.
So he pushed a little harder.
The SD card snapped in half, with the director and producer watching.
There were no backups. That was the first time they had thought to save the data, because it was such a busy day. No time, apparently.
Every single member of cast, crew, everybody had to reschedule to do everything all over again because his trembling hand pushed that card in just the wrong way. Which meant the cost of wages doubled in the span of five seconds, to the sound of a small snap.
Killed his career for at least six months.
Whilst this story doesn't exactly help you, I hope it makes you feel better to know that someone else out there's bad luck fucked up even harder than yours.
Here's hoping you find the damned thing, Wizard. Here's hoping it isn't lost forever to the ether, and it does show up. Here's hoping the rewrite is all the better for knowing where you want it to go, now. Here's hoping none of that data is so irreplacable as to result in your untimely demise.
D: Oh shit!