Having lost almost everything from my laptop has some upsides. Since the machine’s reincarnation, I’ve been digging through closets and boxes for old CDs, trying to piece together a sort of hodgepodge backup for everything that was lost.
So far, I’ve unearthed my teenage music collection, including They Might Be Giants, Savage Garden and Matchbox 20. I found a disc from my trip to eastern Germany, with pictures of me in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig. Most exciting was the re-discovery of my graduation PowerPoint, including a brief photo history of the first 18 years of my life, complete with a Five For Fighting soundtrack.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a recording of the actual event, or I could share with you a much more poignant image of my quirky secondary education: My graduating class shuffling onto a small stage with the Imperial March (Darth Vader’s theme song) playing in the background.
Instead, here’s a few pictures of growing up in Alaska. I hope you enjoy them.
Taking a little hike with my dad.
My mother trying to induce a love of nature.
Building a snow dragon in my front yard.
My sparky younger sister, Sydney.
Sorry to hear that you lost all the data stored on your laptop. I’ve been using Dropbox for almost a year now to store data “in the Cloud” that I simply couldn’t bear to lose.