February 11, 2019
Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and your pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
I don't have any pets right now. Can I save two things? No? Okay, whatever.
I didn't have to think about this one too hard. There's a ton of things I'd like to save, but I can't save everything. My needlepoint, the proof copies of my books, the rocking chair my mother gave me when I was pregnant with my daughter. None of those can be replaced and I'd mourn their loss but I can save only one item.
How about the binders of my poetry? I've never transcribed the majority of my work to digital format. I'd hate to lose those. (Note to self- add that to my to-do list!) But the notebooks aren't what I'd save.
And I can't take my computer. Remember, I only can snatch one item. In order to take my PC, I'd have to crawl on the floor and detach a bunch of cables. No time for that.
But what I can grab is my backup drive. It'll only take a second or two. And yes, I can hear you thinking, that's an interesting choice, but why? Is it because you've saved your books on it?
Good guess, and a nice bonus, but wrong. The real reason is because of all the pictures saved to it. We're talking old family pictures. Pictures of my parents' families. pictures of my husband's parents. Then there are all the pictures of the kids growing up- pictures I spent hours scanning from printed copies. Pictures taken before the invention of digital cameras, when film was used to capture memories. We have boxes of those, and in case of a fire, I'd never be able to save all the paper copies. But I've scanned many of them, and they reside on the backup drive.
Add in copies of all the pictures we've taken since we bought out first digital camera— it took pictures onto floppy disks!—and you get an idea of how much history 'lives' on that hard drive. For example, here's a picture of my grandfather from WWI.
The pictures aren't replaceable. And that's why I'd grab the backup hard drive.
What would you take? You can tell me in the comments. In the meantime, I'm going to hop on over and check out what everyone else would save.
February 11, 2019
Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and your pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
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That's a good thing to grab as you run out the door. I think I'll get one of those...
ReplyDeleteMy biggest issue is keeping it up to date. But at least I have all the historical pictures. And it's backed up to a second device in case one crashes!
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