Hard Drive 13

The Curse of 13 – Part 2

I was feeling pretty good about myself. For the first time in the history of the project, we had a full off-site backup. There are issues with an off-site backup of media files for an active project; you need to do massive large-file transfers daily (or more frequently), and keeping everything up-to-date is an ongoing and tedious job. It’s much easier and faster to do with a local drive. And we can’t afford a data wrangler to handle it for  us. And then there’s the expense. But we took the plunge after the failure described in yesterday’s post. And I drove off to our Secret Bunker to deposit the copy.

The next morning, I came in to work, feeling confident and ready to go, and there was a note taped to the door: “We were burglarized last night. Your studio is a complete mess.”

I unlocked the door. The alarm was off. I guessed that one of the perimeter detectors had been compromised, preventing the staff from arming the system.

I went inside, and climbed upstairs.

Some junkie had got up the fire escape and busted the door to the kitchen. He rooted through all my stuff; leaving stuff everywhere. He went through my back office and threw everything on the floor. All my carefully sorted files, cables, books, DVDs, office supplies. It was about knee-deep in junk back there. It’s going to take a couple of days to get through all that.

But the cops came and the dogs got him before he left, so we didn’t lose anything. Apparently, they chewed him up enough that he left in an ambulance. I checked the hard drives, which had been thrown onto the floor, and “Whew!” again– it looks like everything survived intact.

But, the real kicker is he drank all my milk. No lattes this morning. That REALLY ticks me off.

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