There are some things you should just do: floss your teeth (at least the ones you want to keep, according to a dentist I used to know), cleanse your face of all makeup before you go to bed (thanks, mom), mean it when you say your sorry (self explanatory), exercise at least three times a week (just to stay in a holding pattern), be yourself (do you really want to be loved for something you are not?) and BACK UP YOUR COMPUTER.
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| BACK UP YOUR COMPUTER! |
I have two computers: one is my working computer that contains all my lesson plans and teaching stuff. The other is my home computer which has my writing life. Both are absolutely essential to me. Sure I have hard copies of everything, but I don’t want to have to retype it all. So I use a little external hard drive to back up my main hard drive. Of course, it is only hooked up when I am backing things up. There are numerous such devices available. Mine is a WD Passport with bunches of gigabites on it, and it’s tiny.
I routinely back up my two systems so I needed it to be easy to manage. It’s pretty simple to work the function of running the back up, and it can be set up two ways: auto and manual. For some reason my laptop doesn’t like it when the Passport is set to automatically access the drive. So I removed the auto backup software and do it manually, which is just like using a thumb drive. Open it up, and drag and drop the whole drive into it. My home computer manages the auto access well. So I handle things differently, letting the software determine what has changed and needs to be backed up. Either way, I get my work safely saved to a second drive, and I have less to fear about losing my hard work.
