iPod Trauma

You don't realize just how much you rely on technology until that technology crashes!

My iPod froze up this afternoon!  GRRRR!!!!

It had my whole life on it!  For instance, I lost...

• My calendar
• My contacts
• My passwords (fortunately, I have redundancies on these.  I just have to dig out the old fashioned paper file of them and re-enter them)
• My bookmarked websites
• My list of books to read (over 100 book titles lost)
• My list of movies to buy (to replace all the videos that got thrown away)
• The kid's 'accounts' (I keep track of monies they earn and pay out periodically)
• Direct links to places I shop online
• My gift giving lists (that I have given and ideas for future gifts)
• My workout music play list (that one hurt a lot!  I can't run without my music, so I skipped my run tonight so I could re-populate the list.)
• And a bunch of other apps that make my life more fun!

Obviously, I was a slacker when it came to syncing my iPod to the computer, because if I had only done so, I would not have lost a thing.

RATS!!!

All is not completely lost, however.  I restored it to factory settings, then spent the rest of the evening recreating my digital life.  And I will definitely sync OFTEN from now on!