gratitude.

I planned on posting this image for Easter.  It's not a new image of mine, but it's one of my favorites from a trip to an Arizona mission a couple years ago (or so.)  Looking at it makes me grateful.  For what He endured for me.  Happy belated Easter, everyone!

This last week, I had a hard drive failure, but it gave me more to be grateful for.  I have some people I'd like to publicly thank.  My computer is NOT up and running yet, but it's getting there.  I've been really good about backups, so no worries.  If you're waiting for prints from me, you will still get them....the images are not lost.  But the thought of any miscellaneous files I might have missed in my backups, and the thought of reinstalling my operating system, all of my applications, and configuring everything the way I had it was daunting.  So I was almost ready to pay for data recovery.  Almost.  The fact that it costs an arm and a leg made me cringe.  I actually got a quote from one company for $10,000 to $25,000.  Yeah right. 

Well, thanks to Pam Biasotti, a fellow photographer in San Francisco, I didn't have to go that route.  She suggested I have someone take a look to see if the drives would boot with a good motherboard, and if so, to get the data copied onto an external drive.  So there's thank you number one...THANK YOU PAM!  My second thank you goes out to Kris at the Circuit City on Brentwood.  He went out of his way to get the work done quickly and at a great price.  Nothing near what data recovery would cost.  His employer needs to pay him well because I wouldn't doubt if he regularly gets job offers from customers!  So THANK YOU KRIS!

I'm working on getting the computer up and running, hopefully by tomorrow.  And the best part is, I don't have to reinstall everything.  I just have to copy it onto my new drives.  Anyway, lots to be grateful for.

Comments

[Deanna]

Thank goodness Lauri. Technology can be so great and yet sooooo frustrating.

LOVE that image.

[Kim]

I adore this image. I think you should publish a line of notecards. Your images are always just gorgeous :)

[Susan Robichaud]

I have this print on my table with the images I have taken of my children...its very special to me, and I am happy to see it here!

[Pam Biasotti]

Lauri...anything for a fellow St. Louisian! :) By the way, I know it's a different post, but your twins' images are stunning.