Team Espinoza

On Monday I was standing in the kitchen typing up an email when I heard a crunching sound from the inside of my laptop. Then the Mac pinwheel started spinning and my screen was frozen. I knew this wasn’t good. I rebooted and got a screen I had never seen before. Based on a recommendation from a forum we tried to reload the operating system, but it didn’t work. My heart sunk. I knew it was the hard drive.

My visit to the Genius Bar the next day at the Apple Store confirmed what I already knew – Jane wasn’t going to make it. That was her name. Jane. I named her after my favorite author, Jane Austen. I was so glad Bre was with me for moral support. She was checking out with her iTouch case when I got the news. I said I would be outside while she finished checking out. While I waited I dried the tears that were trying to make a break for it.

I looked on the bright side. It was a free consult to get the diagnosis. And Genius Bar Guy was really nice and didn’t make fun of me when I told him the name of my computer.

I may have lost a lot of email, but most of my email is still on gmail. I have no idea how exactly it is set up, but my email runs through gmail because of its awesome spam filter. Also, so I can access my email from any computer.

I only lost my iPhone photos. The ones I did like I had uploaded to Facebook or here on this site. So while I lost a lot of photos, I still have a few left in cyberland.

I lost a lot of work I did for the Mentoring Program. I created 7 documents for it and I will need to recreate them from pieces I have in email.

Thankfully almost all my music and camera photos are here on my desktop iMac machine. Yeah, I know, woe is me, I lost my second computer. Still I loved her. She was old, but she went everywhere with me. We got her from Craigslist, so I wouldn’t bother Daniel working in the office. I could shoot emails and write blog posts while the kids screamed around me downstairs. I am adjusting to my new culture – a desktop machine I can basically only access when I don’t have the kids with me and my iPhone. So thankful for my iPhone.

Good Bye, Jane. You were wonderful. I will miss your ever-changing flowers welcoming me. You will be missed!