I’m so excited. I’ve finally received a report from the data recovery center and it looks, at this point, like I’ll be able to recover The Space between Atoms . If so, I’ll be able to resume where we left off starting next week. Recovering data is very expensive. You see, I had thousands and thousands of files on my backup drive that failed. It cost more than I’d like to think (let’s just say a new computer would be cheaper) to recover it. There’s no way I could reconstruct literally over a decade of daily writing. The company I used was kind enough to suggest some better storage solutions. Hell, these machines look serious. They also cost a lot of money. I guess most of us would really not like to think how fragile are data are. Speaking of data, one of the English language watchdog groups—I forget which one—has now declared that singular verbs can be used with “data.” Data is the plural of datum, but we tend to use ...
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