..About Discouragement

Since computers can crash and there’s a risk of losing all files stored on it, I decided to keep all my files, pictures, etc. on a flash drive. So last week instead of my computer crashing, my flash drive “malfunctioned.” I cannot access anything on it! The Geek Squad at Best Buy told me there was a slim chance they might be able to fix the drive but it would cost hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars to restore the files on it. Needless to say the news was discouraging. My nephew is going to try to fix it. Most disappointing was that I had pictures of my family, all the files relating to the things I have done for the church and all the photo card, etc. that I had made during the last ten years stored on the flash drive. There were a few files on my computer and I found a few in the recycle bin. And then I remembered I had an old computer stashed away. I managed to reboot it and copied all the files that were on it to a new flash drive. After I copied the files, I was unable to reboot that old computer. Much to my delight most of the pictures of my family that I wanted had been on that computer. The other files dated from 1999 to 2009. The picture below was one of those pictures and was taken Oct 14, 2008 at Hickory Run State Park. Have a blessed week!