Three on Sunday

[marlborobell]

A rare Alistair post because three vignettes have been bubbling through my head since yesterday

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[merlyn4401]

There was a poll in one of my communities about what three things you would save in a fire. A suprising number of people said their hard drive. :)

[marlborobell]

I deliberately bought a backup system that I could easily disconnect and take with me (it's shaped like a toaster and about half the size of one) -- it sits on top of our filing cabinet and is where all our photos from the last eight years are kept, all our e-mails, all our documents, tax returns, etc. There's a lot we'd be very sad to lose if we lost our computers and our backup. (The only other thing we've always said we'd pick up in a fire is our wedding album. But I honestly don't know where it is, and if I can't find it easily it isn't getting picked up when we evacuate.)

Stuff can be replaced; memories can't. Talking of which, I should find a way to get my appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire onto the backup system...

[merlyn4401]

We keep a lot of important documents in a fireproof safe. All our bedrooms are on the 3rd floor, while the computer is on the second. I doubt we'd ever be able to get to it in a nighttime fire.

[wwpostergirl]

For future reference, our wedding album is on the small shelf next to the VCR in the front living room... :)

[amymarr]

The cards in your wallet could (eventually) be replaced. We talked about this in a posting I made a few months back about this very topic...

I need to get one of those harddrive back up thingies...

[marlborobell]

True, but we're talking about dealing with immigration here. I'm sure they'd find all kinds of ingenious ways to make our lives difficult. (Plus it costs about $250 per person to get a British passport and $370 to get a replacement Green Card. I'm not sure home insurance would cover that, although presumably it would pale in comparison to the enormous check for rebuilding and replacing our stuff.)