It’s quiet in here…too quiet…

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

There, much better Yes it’s me, your friend Mohawk.  It’s been a while since I posted, but a couple of things have sparked my initiative recently.

First, my friend started her own blog, and it’s pretty awesome.  Check it out! http://internal-monologues.blogspot.com/

Second, my external hard drive died.  I’m not a weirdo who gets all emotional about his technology (well, not often, anyway) but this was something significant.  I had all sorts of stuff on that hard drive.  Lots of stuff that I downloaded from the internet, and that I can download again once I get a new external drive.  But also lots of personal stuff.  Stuff that I wrote, and have no backup of.  Computer programs.  Creative writing.  Logs of IM conversations with old friends.  The kind of things that I look at when I get all nostalgic for other times in my life (thankfully I’m getting better at living in the present, but I still have my moments).  All wiped out irrecoverably in an instant.

Well, something has to be done about this.  There’s nothing I can do about the 300GB of data I lost this weekend, but there is plenty I can do about the rest of my digital existence.  I’ve decided to make an attempt to backup my digital life to date, and continue doing so with my future as well.  For starters, I’ll be backing up my old Xanga blog (from my pre-Mohawk days) to a new Wordpress blog on this site.  Facebook, I trust to stay up and running for quite a while, but one does never know, so I hope to find some way to periodically back up my wall conversations and messages for posterity.  Anyway, it’s mad slow looking at wall posts from over a month ago, and impossible to search!

Perhaps I’ll move my first website (still online, incredibly, but covered in ads by its original host, FortuneCity) here as well.  The whole site will of course be backed up periodically to my new external once I get one.  To be honest, I’m not 100% sure what I hope to accomplish with this task.  Back up my life?  Maybe.  I see myself in the future, and no matter where I end up, I hope to never forget where I came from.  I guess I’m just trying to leave breadcrumbs on my path through the woods, not only so that I can find my way out, but also so that others can find their way in to meet me.

More updates on my summer to come!