{"id":102,"date":"2009-02-17T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-02-17T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:05:52","slug":"day-6-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many activities in life that I don\u2019t remember starting to do.&#160; When I was a kid, I had much better dental hygiene.&#160; I would always brush twice a day.&#160; At some point, I just started being lazy and would often skip brushing.&#160; It\u2019s become such a bad habit now that it feels like a chore to brush my teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The same (but opposite) with gaming.&#160; Sure, the first console I owned was an Atari, but it wasn\u2019t something I played with regularly.&#160; I didn\u2019t own another one until the Dreamcast.&#160; Sometime during college or shortly afterwards, though, gaming started becoming a really central part of how I got my entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>This is all to lead up to the fact that I don\u2019t know why I develop certain habits but I wish I could tap into that part of my mind, because there\u2019s one habit I haven\u2019t quite developed yet that scares me.&#160; That habit is backing up my data.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, most of my whole documented life, post high-school, is on this computer: my resume, my college essays, my taxes and finances, my wedding photos, everything.&#160; In a second, due to a lightning strike or a hard drive malfunction, I could lose it all.&#160; This terrifies me.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I don\u2019t have a really adequate backup system in place.&#160; I buy hard drives, cheap as they are now, only when I need storage space and have never really set up a mirror of the most important data so that I have at least two copies of things.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, my external drive, which holds all of my media, started giving me write errors about once a day.&#160; Maybe it\u2019s time to bite the bullet, order a set of hard drives, and learn a bit about RAID.<\/p>\n<p>If backing up life was just as easy and inexpensive, how sweet would that be?&#160; Had a rough day?&#160; Get distracted while driving and have an accident?&#160; Just restore your life to your last backup.&#160; As long as you\u2019ve been backing up regularly, you won\u2019t have to go back too far.&#160; Then, just do it again.&#160; Except better.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, LOST is right and you won\u2019t really be able to do things any differently (spoiler!) and will only have to relive the mistakes you made all over again, just in a different way.&#160; That\u2019d be pretty depressing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a few more thoughts about habits before I leave you for today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of habits, learning the guitar will make a new one for me: clipping the nails on my left hand much more regularly.<\/li>\n<li>I need a haircut.&#160; For some reason, I never feel like getting one, although I don\u2019t dislike the actual hair cutting at all.&#160; I think it may be because I feel like sitting still for 20 minutes while someone cuts my hair is wasted time?&#160; It doesn\u2019t make any sense, I know.<\/li>\n<li>I need to drink more water, too.&#160; I go through phases where I\u2019m really good at hydrating myself and times like now when I\u2019m not.&#160; Bottled water does make it easier, but it\u2019s such a foolish thing to purchase.<\/li>\n<li>Writing an entry each morning is fast becoming an entry and helps me start the day.&#160; It\u2019s starting to feel pretty good.<\/li>\n<li>That said, my blog posts used to be funnier and I think the language used to feel more natural.&#160; Maybe in time I will return to my former glory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many activities in life that I don\u2019t remember starting to do.&#160; When I was a kid, I had much better dental hygiene.&#160; I would always brush twice a day.&#160; At some point, I just started being lazy and would often skip brushing.&#160; It\u2019s become such a bad habit now that it feels like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,26,25],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-habits","tag-hard-drive","tag-video-games","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}