I have come quite far with getting just about all the old discs and SD cards into a useful file format. Of course, these could be played directly from any computer or the Android box for the TV. Yet something was bothering me. It did seem like there was a bit of a gap during the years of 2010/11. Hum?
Timehop, that little app that reminds one of social media interactions on the anniversary of the original dates, has its work cut out for it. There was a decade or so when I was able to escape the first term of the academic year and set aside the time for travel. We loved to get away during September weather as it was always pleasant. In addition, the autumn can be very conducive for touring in Europe, or in fact many places, without crowds. For example, today, I got notification for sharing the eJournal entry from September 15, 2011. We were on the 'missing day' enroute to Shanghai. The video of that trip is online for sure.
Yet, what I saw on this date in 2010 caused me a bit of concern. We'd also seen a TV episode of Departures of Canadian guys travelling in Fes the other night. I couldn't recall ever seeimg that trip video when we travelled to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. Had I lost that whole trip? And where was our trip to Central America in 2011? Crap, had I copied over those SD cards and lost all that video too?
Today, I was cleaning a drawer and located an old Seagate mobile drive.
Of course, I had been organized. I found all sorts of HD video in a neatly organized folder. I should have given myself more credit. It's not the data I had forgotten to backup; it was the fact I'd forgotten the hard disc even existed.
As a classmate from high school used to say: Oh Lordie!