Prayers for Haiti, Chile, and my External Hard Drive, Brenda.

By chris.alexander on 12:28 PM

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Sunday: DSL is installed and activated.

Monday: I "find" Set It Off, Dead Presidents, The Wire: Season One, Law Abiding Citizens, the Fifth Element, Manchurian Candidate, and The Kingdom all for $.99 on zml.com.

Wednesday: Cory mentions spending hundreds of dollars on Final Cut Studio and Adobe CS4. I offer to "find" these for him as well.

Thursday: I empty my laptop on to my HD to make space for these programs. Over 60 GB of music. Choreography footage. Articles. Essays. Documents. All things Janet (discography, videos, ipod videos, specials, performances, EVERY download). I begin downloading. These are HUGE files that will take DAYS to download via BitTorrent.

Friday: Shifting in bed, I drop Brenda on the floor. Heart falls out of butt. Reconnect Brenda to laptop, am prompted to format the drive prior to use. This means, "Your drive is empty, playa." I gulp a bottle of painkillers.

Saturday: Brenda is in surgery with George, the $1 Store manager/computer technician who previously breathed new life into Brenda when she had health issues last year. Awaiting the call. All may easily be lost.


I honestly don't know what I'll do if I lose all my files. While much of my music is on my iPod, movies, writing, photos, choreography, and much of the things I've collected over the past seven or eight years is on that hard drive. The thought has periodically crossed my mind to have a backup drive strictly for archiving EVERYTHING, and be stored safely, not to be used daily. I suppose it's too late for that now, isn't it?

Facing the death of a loved one is never hard. Times like these caused me to balloon to #0# lbs back in 2008.


If I am forced to replace Brenda, you can bet that my empty hard drive and USB cable will be coming to a computer near you.

You'll definitely know the outcome. If I disappear, things didn't work out in my favor. I will most likely have Brenda cremated and spread across the peaceful waters of Lake Minnetonka.

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I am really, really, really not ok with your heart falling out of your butt.

That is all.

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