Mean Old Mr. Gravity

He took my hard drive last night. My quite new 1TB hard drive. It had my music, our family videos, family folders, financial back ups, and to top it all off, Nicole's work projects. The Computer Dr. Verified it today. It was a total loss. Nicole and I are mourning our loss today. She is wrestling with the fact that she lost at least 20 hours of work which in mommy time is like one month of work. I have been watching her work hard lately on some of these projects. I am feeling bad that I did not have a better back up system for her. Starting tomorrow though things will be different. We will subscribe to an online back-up storage service and have a networked hard drive that she does not have to lug around the house. The online backup service is about $50 a year. Oh what a small price it would have been to pay it seems like. Also, iTunes Policy on hard drives crashing is, back up your data! Makes sense. Its true, but fairly unrealistic. I buy a song today and my hard drive crashes tomorrow? I am asking for a one time pass on this one. Hopefully it will be a lesson learned. Otherwise, we have about another $2-300 of music to replace on top of the $70 Computer Dr Fee and the $140 new hard drive and $1000 of Nicole's work time. What plague is this? Any thoughts?

'I am throwing up in my bed.'

Those were the words I was greeted with when I responded to Rachel's call shortly after 11PM last night. I told her it was ok and lifted her out of her bunk bed to take her to the bathroom. She warned me she was going to throw up again and fulfilled her promise down my neck and on my sweatshirt. Nicole tended to Rachel as I cleaned up the bit that hit her carpet and hosed down Rachels 'B' in the kitchen sink. I then announced that I was going to take a shower. As I looked at myself in the mirror, I started to chuckle and continued to as I proceded to smear my daughters vomit up my face over my ear and head as I removed my NEDU Tshirt and hooded sweatshirt. It took me about 5 seconds to assess the damage before placing my hope in soap. Something about that event was slightly fulfilling.

Random Pics

So we are bad at updating this blog frequently. I am also bad and putting pictures from our camera to our computer. So I did it tonight, and in doing so, realized there are some fun pictures. So I put a bunch of them together in one mess of a set.

Go ahead, maximize the slide show. You know you want to. Its worth it.