The Best Laid Plans...
Last week was one of those weeks were virtually nothing seemed to go right. In between the minor inconveniences, there were a couple major issues, and at the end of it all I was really looking forward to just get away over the long holiday weekend and relax. It started off on Monday when @mrsbozz and I got home from work and she realized that she had left her purse in her office back at work (30 minutes away). It wasn't a huge deal, but she kind of needed her keys and license since we were supposed to drive separately to work the next day.
I'll be honest, I am human and I wasn't the most gracious, but I did get in my truck and drive back up to work to pick it up for her. Only one problem... There was a massive storm cell bearing down on our area and while I was initially thankful to be home ahead of it, it quickly turned into me driving pretty much right through the middle of it. Thankfully, when I went back up I took the truck so I didn't have to worry about getting blown off the road.
It was intense to say the least. I was cruising down the expressway on my way home when suddenly from the West you could just see a wall of rain, dirt, and debris heading into our path. The torrential rain hit, and I quickly exited the expressway thinking the back roads might be safer. Of course I got stuck behind every single person driving 5 mph on the back roads. I got flipped off more than once as I passed them, and if I am being honesty, I likely deserved it.
So Monday was an unexpected late night. Then, on Tuesday, I had to go take care of a computer issue at a clients business. I hadn't been looking forward to it, but I was able to get his problem taken are of in about fifteen minutes which was a pleasant surprise for me. Then he said oh, I have a list of other stuff for you to look at. No big deal, I will do what I can. He was having an issue that prompted me to update the BIOS on his laptop. Little did I know, if you update the BIOS on a computer that has BitLocker enabled, it is going to ask for the recovery key.
Also little did I know, he hadn't backed up the recovery key anywhere. So after sitting there for an hour trying to figure out how to tell the guy his last two months of data were basically lost, I finally did a complete restore of the laptop and started from scratch reinstalling everything.
Of course it took something like four hours to get him sort of back to normal. Four hours that I didn't feel right charging him for since it was kind of my fault the data was lost in the first place. Now I know to check BitLocker before doing a BIOS upgrade and if BitLocker is enabled to make sure there is a recovery key!
So Tuesday was a much later night than Monday. Then on Wednesday, I had to go back yet again to do even more work on his laptop at which point I just disabled BitLocker all together because it was causing more problems than it was worth. I still have to go back at some other point in the future, but I pushed it until after this long holiday weekend. After I finished up that on Wednesday we had to go to @mrsbozz's parents old house that they are getting ready to sell and do some more work there.
Another late night.
Mind you, we planned on camping this past weekend and I still had a ton of stuff I had to go with the trailer to get it ready for us to leave on Friday. Finally, Thursday night I was able to get those things accomplished. We headed off to the campground after work on Friday, and it has been nothing but cold and rain the majority of the time we have been here. On top of that, I seem to have picked up a Spring cold and I have been pretty miserable between the coughing, runny nose, and sneezing!
Don't get me wrong, we have squeezed out some enjoyable times, but if we were going to just sit in out of the rain and read or watch TV, we could totally be doing that at home.
I shouldn't complain though, in our many years of camping, we have gotten pretty lucky as far as weather goes. The rainy days have been far fewer than the sunny days, and I know this summer season has a lot of sunny days in store for us.
I guess I should just be happy the trailer isn't leaking.... At least that I know of!
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STOPMan, sounds like a rough week. Weekend sounds a little disappointing too. There is always more weekends. More days of sun and fun.
Oh, and bitlocker sucks ass.
But hasn't there been news recently that BitLocker is backdoored? I mean that's no news of importance to any of us normal folks for data recovery, but it shows how useless BitLocker may be.
I would recommend to anyone who cares about privacy and has some stuff not everybody is supposed to read, to use an encrypted Linux system. 🐧
PS: I'm trying with this comment to have a nicer looking layout. The HTML for the box is what ChatGPT gave me. I'm not sure why it's inside a box nor how it really works... If anyone can help out, explaining how I can format a specific paragraph to be displayed next to a specific image, help would be appreciated!