If only I hadn't promised God that if he fixed this for me, I wouldn't write the blasphemous book after all
Talk about your resurrections. I just got a call from Drive Savers in California telling me that all my data has been recovered.
I'm not cracking the Champagne until I actually have it in my hands tomorrow morning [Update: bust ot the Armand de Brignac — it's all there], but since you all have been incredibly supportive (is there an emoticon to indicate that you're not being sarcastic?), I wanted to post the good news here ASAP.
Best of all, I now have something in common with Gerald Ford, Milla Jovovich, Keith Richards and Sean Connery.
Hmmm. Think I can get Drive Savers to restore my drive from the future and send me the chapters I haven't written yet...?
Comments
That's excellent news -- I'm very happy for you.
Posted by: Eric Berlin | October 24, 2006 1:49 PM
As the kids say, Huzzah! That web site of star recoverees is hilarious. Now you will know what to say when asked what Gerald Ford and Sara Jessica Parker have in common.
Posted by: Abby | October 24, 2006 2:00 PM
You're forgetting his guest appearance on a very special episode of Square Pegs.
Posted by: radosh | October 24, 2006 2:13 PM
Maybe it wasn't God who saved your data.
One more pact with the devil and your book may win a Pulitzer. Wishing you success.
Posted by: Amy | October 24, 2006 2:53 PM
Good news!
The emoticon you are looking for is a period or a comma depending on where in the sentence you are not being sarcastic.
Posted by: TG Gibbon | October 24, 2006 3:31 PM
Great, great news.
One day perhaps they will post an autographed photo from me inscribed, "Thank you Drive Savers for recovering all my pictures of Milla Jovovich! (And oddly, Gerald Ford.)"
Posted by: Kevin Guilfoile | October 24, 2006 4:27 PM
That's great! So, what are the spirtual followers of Drive Savers called? Drivesaverians? I assume you now are one, whatever they're called.
Posted by: jim hanas | October 24, 2006 5:42 PM
That is some seriously wonderful news. Congratulations!
Posted by: Rose | October 24, 2006 10:31 PM
Great. Just great.
No, seriously - insert that no-sarcasm thingie there.
Posted by: Vance | October 24, 2006 11:22 PM
Having recently had to spend three days recovering data from a dying hard drive, including freezing it, I'm truly happy for you. Onward and upward.
Posted by: Steven I. Weiss | October 25, 2006 2:29 AM
I wasn't one of those supportive people, at least outwardly, because the whole thing seemed too painful for me to even comment on. (c.f.: the people who will stand over you as you clutch your broken leg, saying helpful sympathetic things like "Looks broken. Must hurt, eh?") Also, I was optimistic and didn't want to jinx anything by saying so. More often than people realize, the problem's caused by an interior electronic or mechanical failure in the read/write mechanism, rather than any damage to the media or corruption of the data on the disks themselves (though unfortunately, sometimes the former also causes the latter).
In other words of verbose redundant verbosity, that's great news. I'm happy for you.
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Posted by: Walt | October 25, 2006 5:47 AM
Saved? Your notes, etc. for Rapture Ready were Saved? Sounds like marketing bullshit to me.
Glad to hear of it anyway - unless you are one of the Saved that can't stop talking about it.
Posted by: Charles | October 25, 2006 9:17 AM
That's great news. One piece of advice, though: go through the recovered data carefully to make sure it hasn't been subtly changed by the wonder-working power of the LORD. I'm just saying.
Posted by: Kevin | October 25, 2006 1:13 PM
WONDERFUL!!!
Posted by: Lue | October 26, 2006 6:58 AM
Gosh, not to mention, Depeche Mode, The Great Gonzo, and Donny Osmond!
Posted by: Gina Duclayan | October 26, 2006 11:08 AM
I can't believe I missed Depeche Mode. The "own personal Jesus" joke would've written itself.
Posted by: radosh | October 26, 2006 11:11 AM
Wow, that's excellent. Mazel tov. The most I've lost to computer failure was a 3,000-word piece I had written but not yet filed, and I damn near went into mourning over it. I felt your pain there.
Posted by: jason | October 26, 2006 11:02 PM