Why The World Didn't End On Tuesday at 1.475pm!

On Tuesday at 1.45pm I thought the world had ended.

This story really starts about a year ago when my main laptop, on which all my work was stored, (I know, I know) suddenly decided to have it's screen go black, never to reappear.

"It's ok", says my computer repair guy, "we can clone your laptop and put it on a new pc".

Great, I thought. So the guy does his stuff and I then have a new pc with the cloned hardrive (or something).

So, all is well except for the fact that I can't backup this pc to an external hardrive, nor can I back it up to external backup services. Why, because my pc is cloned, every time I try to back it up to anywhere, it crashes my pc.

So I save some files on disc etc but cannot save any of my software that I've paid thousands for. Anyway, I carry on mymerry way with the 'it's ok. It'll never happen to me' type mindset.

Then, on Tuesday last week at 1.47pm precisely. My computer crashed.

I rebooted and got just a black screen that said 'Invalid boot.INI file - Booting from C:/windows/

Does that mean anything to you? Cos it sure didn't mean jack to me. So I rebooted again. Same thing. Now I'm panicking. I call my pc repair guy. "Bring it in and we'll take a look", says he. So, full of fear and trepidation I take it along to him.

Upshot is that he calls me today and tells me that his hard drive forensic guy cannot do a damn thing and ALL my stuff is lost and gone forever. All my thousands of dollars worth of software, all my work for the last few weeks (I know, I flippin' know!!!)

I'm now sitting here with a new pc and because it's not cloned, it CAN be backed up. And boy will it be backed up (probably every 5 minutes)! The fact is, that this is a bare pc now, with hardly anything on it and I now have to set to and start rewriting tutorials that I lost, re-recording a ton of video tutorials again that are intended for my mentoring clients. And it's only when you come to do stuff that you realise you no longer have the software any more to do the job with.

Oh, yes, all my passwords were stored on Roboform, so they are all gone as well. So now when I go to login to any sites where I have a membership (lots of them) I don't know the *###%%*** password. Even my Youtube, Clickbank, (thankfully not my Paypal) passwords are gone.

This is going to be painful (and expensive). And it's all my own fault for thinking it would never happen to me. So this is my admission, right here, of me being a true and utter clutz!

But you know what?

Yes, you know I'm a clutz, I know that. But you know what else?

Here's what else... The world did NOT, in fact, end at 1.47pm on Tuesday.

Before too long, I will be working back at full strength again, with everything replaced. And because I know how to make a very decent income online, the software will be replaced and so will everything else (with a little work and effort).

For a time, I thought the world HAD ended. It sure felt like it. I felt like crying if I'm honest.

But then, that evening, I watched the news and what was going on in Haiti and elsewhere in the world. Now THAT is something to cry about.

Makes you get things in perspective really, doesn't it?

Anyway, I suppose the message I wanted to pass on is to not be a clutz like I was and for the sake of your sanity, make sure you don't think the same thing can't happen to you, because sooner or later, it will.

Can't hang around any longer. I need to go BACK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!