What a horrible way....

to start out the new year! I'm just sick. My hard drive died sometime last Saturday night or early Sunday morning while I was at my sister's house. ALL of my pictures of Larry were on that hard drive. I tried for two days to retrieve everything on it and I couldn't. Even bought a data transfer and still couldn't do it. So, I took it to Best Buy's Geek Squad and they couldn't transfer anything from it either. So, they told me they could send it to another company they are partners with and they could do it. To the tune of $250 - $1500! The guy at Best Buy said that the other company can rebuild the hard drive using the memory from the old one and pull it all off and put on disks. I want those pictures and my manuscripts. The pictures more than anything. So, I did it. I told them it would be worth that kind of money just to get his pictures back!!! It'll take up to 2 weeks. They are suppose to call me. I've bought a new hard drive for my old computer and will give it to the boys to use...I bought a new one with a good battery backup surge protector by APC. I also invested in an external tape backup so I can back up everything on my computer in the future. Keep your fingers crossed for me that this other company can retrieve them, please.