No Cheapo Batteries Allowed
Okay, I learned a lesson. Don't use cheapo batteries in my Palm Pilot, and don't leave it plugged into a peripheral overnight. This morning I discovered that Ye Old Trusty PDA was dead, inert, blank, non-functioning, and all the work I'd done on my current story over Friday night and early Saturday (pre-dawn) is lost. After installing another set of batteries (more cheapos, must remedy that ASAP) my trusty little machine blinked, crippled, saying over and over "Do you want to erase all data?" Answering "No" only made it blink and ask again. It was futile, so I finally picked the only real available answer, which was "Yes," and the poor energy-starved pal of mine did a hard reset and came back to life with total amnesia. It didn't even recognize me. It didn't even know what date it was.
A trip home, and some tender loving care in it's sleepy time cradle, and Mr. PDA was as good as new, but missing a day's worth of data. It came back to life and stared at me, confused, as if asking, "Okay, what happened? Something is different..." I didn't have the heart to tell it what went wrong ... especially since it was my fault. So, lesson learned, I will recreate the lost parts of my story from memory, and be much more careful from now on.
Hope everyone is having a happy weekend!
A trip home, and some tender loving care in it's sleepy time cradle, and Mr. PDA was as good as new, but missing a day's worth of data. It came back to life and stared at me, confused, as if asking, "Okay, what happened? Something is different..." I didn't have the heart to tell it what went wrong ... especially since it was my fault. So, lesson learned, I will recreate the lost parts of my story from memory, and be much more careful from now on.
Hope everyone is having a happy weekend!
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