This morning I made a mistake. I decided that since I had enough room on my iPod I would back up all my digital photos on it so I would have a copy of all of them in case something were to happen. Well, my computer ran out of disk space during the copy (it was making thumbnails for all of the images) so I panicked and deleted what I thought was the iPod version of the photos. It turns out that it was the originals instead. I noticed this quickly enough so that I only lost November 2005-March 2006. Unfortunately I had to completely wipe out my existing iPhoto library and rebuild it manually (as a mass import duplicated photos that had original/non-rotated versions saved) This took me pretty much all morning and about half the afternoon. Luckily, I was able to save about 95% of the photos I lost by downloading the ones I’d uploaded to my site…unfortunately none of the movies I took could be salvaged. At the very least, it weeded out the crappy photos, or the ones I didn’t feel were good enough to upload.

A very important point to note here is my attitude towards this. Yes, there was a great deal of irony in the fact that I was attempting to back up my files when I lost so many of them…and I can appreciate that. The thing is, I did have a moment of panic where I thought all was lost, but that did not last long. Had this happened a year ago, or even 6 months ago, this feeling would have lasted all day and I wouldn’t have been able to snap out of it. I would be distraught and inconsolable. My photos are incredibly important to me, as one could easily determine. I attribute this change in attitude to Jules. He has calmed me down and raised my confidence enough that small things don’t bother me the way they once did.

Thank you darling…you’ve made my life so much less stressful with your love.