Date: 1-3-2014

Due Date: 1-13-2014

Back story:  During my trip home to San Diego I was using my laptop to write my novel. While taking a break a very lightweight bottle opener fell a short distance and hit the outer shell of my computer causing this damage to my computer. It still works I just need to hook it up to a monitor, so I transferred the file to my mom's computer and somehow managed to lose some of my progress. I thought I was going to explode with frustration.

Resolution: I will not beat myself up too bad for losing an entire day’s worth of writing due to working on a strange computer. Well, it's my mom's computer that I have to use because the monitor to my laptop broke the other day (cheap piece of shit).

Good news. I thought I lost a lot more information, luckily I haven't been as productive as I thought I would be while on this visit.

I had genuine fears that I lost a lot more of my work than I actually did.

Back to 112,298 words.

I guess I lost two days because I spent all night tonight trying to figure out how to recover what turned out to only be 1,340 words.

New Year’s Resolution for the rest of the trip; not only save to my thumb-drive but also email a backup to myself when I am done writing for the night.

Result #3: A mundane yet successful resolution!!!

Update #1: The Conclusion:

I was still juggling whether or not I was going to take this daily resolution project serious or not at this point, but I am going to count this as a success because I do need to learn not to beat myself up over things that are out of my control, and I did successfully make it home with all my data!!!

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