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November 9, 2004
Birthday presents
Alesia, from birthday party central...
OK, birthday cake is calorie free, right? It’s like a law? If not, it should be.
Hey, I’ve lost 9 ½ pounds, so I deserve a little birthday cake!!
So Navy Guy proved again that he’s a keeper. I’m a total gadget geek, and he came through with a mini flash drive. What the heck is that, you normal (read: non-geekoid type) people ask?
It’s a tiny thing, about the size of a lipstick, but flat, that’s basically a big honking pile of computer memory. I saved all of my book files on it and only used around 1% of the memory. You have to understand the completely irrational compulsion to save your book files that screams through the psyche of any working author. We’ve all heard the “I lost 15 chapters of my book when lightning struck my power lines and my computer went down and it was only 3 days from my deadline” stories. This prospect strikes terror into the hardiest of writers.
We’re terrified, so we back up. And back up. And back up. We save to floppies and CDs and flash drives. We e-mail files to ourselves, so if every computer in the state of Florida, for example, goes down in another hurricane, I could drive to Georgia and get on my internet e-mail account and retrieve my book. We mail CDs of files to relatives in other states, because . . . well, you’re getting my point by now. LOL!
So here I am, with my birthday cake and my lovely flowers and my new slippers and my flash drive. Plus I’m living my dream of being a full-time writer. Life is pretty darn wonderful, isn’t it?
Hugs,
Alesia, another year happier
p.s. SHOP ‘TIL YULE DROP hit the Bookscan bestseller list again! Thanks to all of you who helped make that possible! (Remember, it fits in a Christmas stocking! LOL.)
Posted by Alesia at 10:12 PM | Comments (5)
Comments
I, too, love my new flash drive!! It's one of those life-changing tools for a writer.
A piece of advice, however: If you have a kid under the legal age of reason, logic and all common sense, watch out. ONCE, and only ONCE, I left my flash drive attached to my USB port on my desktop hard drive, and the little schmuck honed right in on it and wiggled and wiggled and wiggled it. Needless to say...
It's not working anymore. He bent it all the hell out of shape. So, I advise you to retain a little bit of your old paranoia and save your docs to your desktop as well as your flash drive!
Eileen
Posted by: Eileen at November 10, 2004 1:22 AM
oh, boy, can I relate to that story!! Thanks for the tip!
alesia
Posted by: Alesia Holliday at November 10, 2004 8:10 AM
HAAAAAAAPPPPPPPYYYYYY BIIIIRRRRRTTTTTHHHHHHDDDDAAAYYYYYY
Barb
Posted by: Barb at November 10, 2004 10:32 PM
Happy birthday (belatedly) to our lovely Alesia!
You are absolutely correct about the birthday cake situation, gal--definitely no calories it in.
Enjoy!
Michelle xx
Posted by: Michelle C at November 11, 2004 9:53 AM
Happy Belated Birthday Alesia. Another Scorpio, it's amazing how many of us are writers. My birthday this year was on Election Day, so I fled the country to London, arriving in time on the 3rd to discover that Bush was still President. Boo-Hoo!
Posted by: Elizabeth at November 16, 2004 4:24 PM
