12.28.09

Learning from our children.

Posted in General at 10:47 am by Janet

We have all heard that you should never stop learning, and that learning can come to us in many different forms.  Book learning is my favorite.  Often when I develop an interest in something I will reserve books at the library, pick them up and then spend some time reading about a topic.  Classes are another way to learn something new.  I have learned to crochet and sew from taking classes.  Experience is a teacher as well, although the lessons learned there come with a price.  We also learn from others, directly or indirectly, by observation. 

Recently Leslie (oldest daughter for all blog readers who are not family) had a catastrophic computer failure, you know the kind.  She was horrified when she figured out that she had many years of photos on that computer and had not backed them up anywhere else.  I was upset also but figured Mark (next to youngest son) could probably yank out the old hard drive and retrieve the photos.  He worked on the project on Saturday and after looking for various cords and working a while came to the conclusion that her hard drive was toast, there was nothing he could do. 

What I have learned from my children from this episode.  1. Don’t buy a hard drive from anyone but Western Digital.  Mark has never had a failure with one of those.  2. Back-up your photos several different ways.  If they are on a computer you need to back them up on another computer, burn them on a CD and back them up on another hard drive dedicated to photos only and then keep that somewhere safe.  3. Even someone who works miracles can not bring a hard drive back from the dead. 

I feel sad that Leslie doesn’t have photos of her older children when they were little, but on the bright side this sure will make scrap-booking easier.  I have very few photos of me or my siblings growing up and I am okay.  Having photos is fun, and important,but if you don’t have them that is okay too.  So now for the plea.  We all need to find photos of the Oliver family and share them so she can start collecting photos of her family.  This can be fun for all of us.  Dad is downstairs right now collecting photos (from our triple backed up archives) and will burn them onto a CD for the Olivers.

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