possible disaster will soon ensue

my computer crashed at work today while i was gone at school. i haven't seen it yet, because i refused to go back to work after school because i was too scared of what is waiting for me. but one our other legal assistant who we just recently hired called me this morning, and first thing he said to me was, "you should be sitting down for this..."

that is never a good way to start a phone call.

then he told me that he was printing something from my computer (because it's the only one in our office hooked up to the color printer), and in the middle of it, it just froze up, crashed, and when it rebooted, everything was gone. every document. every piece of software. it was like it was a brand new computer. hard drive completely wiped clean.

this means a lot of bad things basically. but i'm crossing my fingers, praying hard (please also pray for me) and calling a smart IT guy tomorrow, in hopes that we can recover something, anything.

and yes, you're all asking yourself, don't you have a backup you dummy? well, yes and no. i have all of our client files (which is the bulk of our materials) on our network server, and also on a backup server. but my personal computer's hard drive? why would i ever think to be worried about that? oh wait...dummy. all of our accounting, billing, etc. is on MY computer. dumb. dumb. dumb.

but, in good faith, i'm still crossing my fingers and praying that my most recent backup was recent enough that not too much damage will be done.

wanna know what makes it all even worse though? this past monday night, after a busy weekend of church stuff/ward conference, stake relief society meetings and visits, and a full day of classes...monday night i'm sitting in my office working, and i get the very clear distinct thought, "beth, you should look into some sort of online data backup services in case your systems at work ever crashed." i had the though once and only once, but with great clarity. it didn't feel like a warning, and thus i didn't think too much of it. it was one of those things that i would "get to later" or even just next week when I'm back in the office full-time. should've listened. won't ignore that type of thought again.

pray for me. thanks.

the end.