Ok, so yesterday morning I was reading in my studio, I look up and my monitor shows me nothing but the “blue screen of death,” the fatally corrupted disk error that we all dread. I valiantly gave my PC mouth-to-mouth for the next hour before pronouncing its time of death.
I called one of my tech buddies who works for large computer firm in Redmond and wept openly and bitterly as one without a backup disk. My whole dissertation, some essays, my bibliography, and numerous other projects… basically I was an amputee, I had literally lost part of my mind.
Though I’m not sure this is what Jesus had in mind when he told his followers that they would do even greater things than what he had done, yesterday afternoon God through Sam raised “My Docs” back to life… though not a resurrection body. The old hardware has passed away, behold the content still lives. Thank you Sam, thank you so much!
Well, I had been wanting a new laptop… All that to say, BACK IT UP! Whatever you’ve been working on, save to one of them diskee-thingees.
Don’t let the oil for your lamp run out, or one day you might turn the Larry Norman(thanks PG)/Dwight Friesen duet into a trio, “We wish we’d all been ready.”
Well, I’m off to Chicago for Wheaton’s 2004 theology conference.
Peace, dwight
