[Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Howdy folks,
I know some of you have experienced the total utter anguish of loss when a 
hard drive crashes and burns taking everyone with it!

My main PHOTO  hard-drive crashed in big flames taking about three months of 
careful prepared material, photo editing, writing, scanning each photo and 
all the other aspects of producing a new photography book on the life and 
times of the old guy. One can only say.... "What the hell that'll teach you 
not to back-up every single moment!"  The truth? Well I did some of it. 
Please note...."some of it." :-(

The only reason I'm telling you? I have to tell someone or slash my wrists 
or cut my throat and at the moment I thought telling someone was the better 
of the options! :-)

Besides I can't do it right now because we begin heavy duty production on 
the BRAVO TV documentary tomorrow on my wild wild life as a photojournalist. 
And I didn't want to disappoint you in seeing and hearing the tales of my 
wild and sordid life. ;-)

By now I'm sort of over the gut wrenching crying anguish of yesterday. It 
also seems the only way to correct the computer situation completely is dump 
the whole thing and go new, right now this is a sort of hatched together 
machine. Another thing I need not face at the moment, re-loading everything! 
I of course being a photographer and not a techie will not be involved in 
doing any of this make over.

I leave for as far away as possible as I do not want to see any of this 
resurrection! When everything is ready to rock and roll in it's complete 
simplicity of operation... slightly above "moron operator" state I shall sit 
before it and start again.

Mean while I'll begin the search for slides & negs for re-scanning, along 
with prints to flatbed scan.

Sorry if this put you off your feed, but thank you for being there as crew 
to listen. As you've helped make me feel better and now I'll put the 
straight razor away! ;-) Best part?

Nobody died... I was close!:-(  But all, well most of it, will rise again 
complete with an incredible lesson learned! BACK-UP EVERY MOMENT! No 
haranguing please, I've had all I can take at the moment! As she who must be 
obeyed has beat all of you to it and better. :-) Oh geeeeesh the woman 
hasn't helped one iota!:-) But what the hell I still love her. :-)

ted