holy crap batman, fate must like me

This afternoon, my wife shouted "Oooooh, um, come look at this" from across the house.

This is invariably one of my least favorite phrases, at least with the inflection she was using at the time, because it means I am supposed to come bear witness to something bad--usually something I did, and usually something where a fair amount of work is in my future because of it.

When I got there, she handed me something small and quite warm, saying "uh oh, look what went through the wash and dryer."

I opened my hand and held a zip drive; the one that had my first draft of a memoir and 230-some pages of my next work. Both were saved elsewhere, but the new one was last saved at like page 140.

I stuck the drive into the computer, resigned to a hard lesson learned, and the stupid thing works fine! I couldn't believe it.

I do not recommend trying this at home, but I do recommend backing your stuff up.....

when I plugged it in and the files all popped up, I whispered "holyfuckinshiiiiit" undr my breath and then saved everything to the desktop right away, afraid if I touched anything or tried re-saving, even that might be too much temptation for fate......

Since someone asked, it was a geek squad 4 gig zip that has a rotating plastic arm/sleeve it snaps into. Just a fairly large stock Best Buy drive. I'm happy to plug the zip after that, although I would not recommend trying to replicate my work.....

I think fate was perhaps giving me a do-over or compensatory day to make up for the one on Friday where I broke almost everything I touched. Thanks for all the wishes, I probably should have bought the damn lottto ticket, all things considered.

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