Sentimental Blubbering
Friday, August 31, 2012 at 10:00AM This really isn’t an advert for Carbonite but I have never been so grateful for a cloud based back up service. All Carbonite does is constantly back up your entire hard drive, I have 147 Gb of data stashed away somewhere, when my computers were stolen, no matter how much I’d tried to back up locally on hard drives, I would have lost a lot of stuff.
As I restore something like 14,000 pictures that were on my stolen iMac, it’s hard not to spend a moment or two getting a little bit sentimental. My two children are now 16 and 19, they are both on their way into the greater world beyond our family home and our lives are adjusting to the new order.
This picture has rushed me back to the deep joy they brought into my life. I had children relatively late in life, I was 37 when my son was born and 40 when my daughter arrived so I’m a bit behind many of my peers. I have good friends who are already grandparents; I’m hoping to see a few more years before I join them in that role.
This picture was taken in 2000 in Gourde, Southern France when we were staying with friends in their lovely house just outside the town. One morning we walked into the market square, bought some postcards and drew pictures and wrote messages to grandma in Australia and Granny in England. The Mrs took the picture. I think what I love about it is their deep concentration, no doubt the Mrs was saying, ‘hey guys, look over here!’ but they had a job to do.
Reader Comments (7)
Awwwwwww! Quality time with dear old dad. Mem-o-ries!
Great that you didn`t lose those. I need to get a printer dock myself. Got tons of family and friends pics on my computer. Its nice to be able to look at pics on the computer,but theres something more special about pulling out the old photo albums.
I'm glad you were able to get your all your stuff back from the cloud. The cloud was not as kind to this guy however
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I really should look into an online back up.
I love when I read that people off of that telly are just normal like me and a sentimental Dad looking at old photos.
Must get backed up!
The way I always put it to people is.
"Data not backed up is data you don't want".
I'm glad that Carbonite worked for you, but personally I'd strongly recommend having a third copy elsewhere too, as my personal experience of Carbonite was not as positive - they "lost" (i.e. deleted without my permission or request) over 200Gb of my data from their servers then tried to blame me by saying I'd wiped it off deliberately, or deleted it without noticing ! Needless to say I made other arrangements after that and didn't renew my Carbonite subscription when it expired.
Great photo, captures the moment perfectly. I also get all sentimental, and a little sad too, looking at old photos of the kids. Videos are worse! Not that I don't adore them now, but it's weird to think those little girls are gone forever. Replaced by wonderful, older girls, true, but never the less I miss them.
Anyway, sorry, went all gloomy there. Great photo!