My Worship Revolution

When I was at Revolution Church, I kept everything on my laptop…everything!  Actually, it was the churches laptop.  So before leaving SoCal to come to CLC, Rachel and I bought a 500GB external hard drive so I could transfer all of my stuff onto there to put on my new computer eventually.  (Yeah…you can probably see where this one is going.)

And so I’ve had it plugged into my PC here at the office using things from it as I needed them, intending to soon either transfer it all onto this computer or a laptop if I was able to get one.  So on Monday, after putting a capture card in the Vaio and putting it back together, I have the hard drive turned on and on top of the tower.  I’m fixing something on the PC, bump it a little, and the hard drive falls about six inches and hits a small pipe going to an electrical outlet.  Hard drive failed.

Yup.  Thousands of songs…gone.  Hundreds of pictures…gone.  Lots of chord charts…gone.  Papers from all of my classes at Vanguard, dramas I had written and others I’ve picked up along the way, rosters with phone numbers and contact info, videos I created at Revolution, and more…all GONE!

The hard drive is being replaced under warranty.  But after a bit of research, I’ve discovered that recovering the data off the drive could easily cost $1500-$2000.  I guess I can use this as a reminder.

1. Back up the data.  Although it wouldn’t help much here as I was transferring it, it’s a good reminder of how quickly it can all disappear.
2. Maybe some things aren’t as important as I think they they are.  There’s nothing on there I really can’t live without.  Hey, I guess our "fresh start" up north will just be a little fresher.

So yeah…that’s the bad news alright.  But!  The good news should be coming in a soon to appear post…