What these two weeks have been–and it wasn’t even my disaster. I assumed the role of network administrator at work a few months back, recognizing a need for dedicated administration. The disaster I predicted happened. My whole life for the time it was down until it recovered revolved around a server. Funny, there was an article recently, which unfortunately I haven’t located, that talks of how stress keeps people from exercising. With all of this going on, I haven’t exercised, written, blogged, nor painted. Not much in the way of any creative outlet. There’s something about computers and data that puts me into a mother bear mode. I was going to see the office through this disaster no matter how tired I was.
So yes, I do have a life outside of writing, albeit one that is as far removed from the creative process as can possible be. Oh, wait. Don’t they say on the WordPress home page that code is poetry? In a way it is, but code has rules that can’t be broken. All this talk of disaster has me in the mindset now to avoid my own.
Back ups. Back ups are vital. The business recovered because it had a back up. For my part, I set up regular back ups on all of my blogs and website. WordPress has a great to not only allow scheduled back ups, but recoveries as well. I actually had to use that recently when I changed providers from GoDaddy to HostGator. The change went smoothly, but I did email support quite a bit with issues along the way. Anyway, so back up.
I utilize both a remote back up via my hosting provider and a back up on a flash drive. Something about the added insurance of "something in hand" is quite comforting. I’ve also put together a folder on my hard drive of necessary plug-ins. I use several, so having to reinstall WP without my suite of tools would hamper me. Again, back up.
I checked in with the office on Monday and all was well. Now I can get back to my creative outlets.
