Lemons to lemonade

This past couple of months I've been in an electronic whirlwind.  My laptop of eight years decided to crash!  Yes I said crash...the hard drive crashed.  I got an error code and tried all kinds of fixes I found on Youtube and Google searches.  Nothing worked.  I had to accept my laptop was dead and all the data, files, photos, music, videos,software, etc was all lost.  I know your next question is ... don't you back up your shit...yes I do, but I work on so many project daily and I'm backing up all the time and I still was not current on my back ups.  I honestly don't know what all I may have lost.  I used an old version of Photoshop which on any new computer the new software will be expensive.  I'm so heartbroken over all of this.  

After a few days I had to get real about how I was in the middle of some projects and I needed to get a computer/laptop.  After a days of contemplating PC vs. Mac.   I have a iPhone and iPad so it only seem the logical step.  Oh by the way, my iPhone is also broke and when that happened I decided to move to a Galaxy cellphone since it would be easier to move files/photos.  But since my phone and computer needed to be replaced it was a good time to go all Mac.  I bought a iMac Pro laptop and also moved on to a Mac desktop and I tell ya it's all good...real good.  The saying when you get lemons and I mean rotten lemons...you make lemonade and you make sweet lemonade!

So far I'm on quite a learning curve but it's fun and exciting.  Biggest challenge is getting photo editing software and print software.  Little at a time.  

In the meantime, a friend has offered to tackle my hard drive and see if any data can be retrieved.   Fingers-crossed 

Time to say goodbye to my Dell desktop...

This is my Dell desktop I purchased in 2002 or 2003.  I got a dual DVD/CD recorder, two hard drives, good graphics card and sound card.  Upgraded memory and it was super fast!  I had loaded it up with great software and never ran out of room on the hard drives.  I loved watching movies on it and loved editing photos.  I ran dual monitors and added many peripheral devices with this desktop and he handled everything I threw at it.  One of the DVD drives doesn't open anymore, several of the USB's don't work anymore, it's super slow, I can barely connect to the internet, and it's big and gathers lots of dust.  I will miss all my cool software and how easy it is to use the scanner and printer.   But as you know technology is so amazing that this dinosaur has outlived his use even with all the upgrades I've done over the years.  I haven't been using it much except to edit photos since it has millions of Photoshop goodies and tons of fonts I'll never replace.  Have you seen the price of Photoshop software these days!  I backed up all my goodies and unplugged Mr Dell Desktop.  Sad day but looking forward to his replacement.  Stay tuned, I'm saving my pennies.