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backups and backhoes

My computer is my notepad where I scribble out ideas, my filiing cabinet where I store my important papers, my journal where I write to myself, my music box where I keep just about every song I would want to listen to, and, oh yeah, an important tool for work. Given the fact that harddrive failure is not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, and also given some of the scary things I’ve seen at work, I figured I really need to start backing up my data. Probably on a regular basis too.

So I look into ways to do it. I found a good deal on a mammoth drive, but needed another piece to make it work — a case to put it in. Oddly, the best deal on the case was not online, in the ethereal world, but in a real live store with a spatial location where I’d get to conduct person-to-person business. And what’s more, it’s right here in town. Or, at least, no more than a 15 minute drive. I’m not at work today because I’m trying to beat a cold by resting, which means I have time to drive over there. On my way, there was a yellow tractor, the kind with a scooping front-end and a big digging rear-end, driving up the entrance ramp of the freeway where I’m driving comfortably with traffic at 70mph. Sure, tractors are a little faster nowadays than they used to be, but a freeway is still no place for one. What that tractor did when it got to the top of the entrance ramp and had to merge, I don’t know. I was gone.

Two hours later, at home, getting some water from the sink in front of the window, I see a yellow tractor drive by.

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