It never rains but it pours….

As many people have noticed, bad luck and misfortune seem to have a nasty habit of clumping into a big fat old black swan. Black swans are rare but disastrous events that seem unlikely but actually happen more often than you realise. I’ve had such a week. 2 boiler failures, wonky mobile, dead imac, wonky laptop, backup system playing up. All in the same week. I am now waiting for a moose to fall out of the sky..

You can make contingency plans that work for single failures or even a couple but where are the plans when literally everything goes wrong? Can you survive the ‘worst case scenario’ if several happen together? If you do backups can you get your data back. I discovered that yes I can but it is much slower for some reason than it should be. Trying to retrieve several GB of data at 70k a second or even 700k a second on a connection that easily manages several Mbit is very frustrating.  The irony was I copied off my Itunes library only recently and almost copied the photos too, but didn’t. Such a silly mistake. Another lesson in following your instincts!

Roll on 2012. Things can only get better.