RIP Computer

This weekend during our move, my grand daughter accidently tipped over my computer while it was turned on and now the HD with the operating system on it is fried. It's now making a series of beeps and gurgle-- flamboyant in its death scene.

It seems that whenever I get a computer in perfect working order, something like this happens to it. (Something like me that is.) It was my own fault for having it standing upright in that unsteady posture any way. My computer is a rack mount and is designed to lay flat. And I needed it on its side for my own convienience.

In the last year or so, I had a good amount of music done on Cubase 5 and some story writing notes and lots of research and photo images to aid in my characters and settings. All lost because I did not back up anything.

Someone could probably make a good business out of automatically backing up anything that is saved on our computers and sending it to servers in the cloud so that that we wouldn't totally be lost when our computers crash. The technology is certainly there in my opinion. I know there are services that will let you back up files but I am unaware if there is a service that just automatically backs up not just a certain type of selected file but all of our save files. Basically anything that is saved by us gets saved on another server as well.
All of our images and documents and music files woudnt that be sweet?

I was laying in bed last night and I was thinking that not having a computer was maybe more of a blessing than a curse.
I have been getting more than my fair share of WOW gaming and have not worked on any writerly activities or music since refocusing my attention on this blasted game.

My brother Carlos and I have had many coversations on how we thought that this game was a creativity killer.
My opinion is that to run your characters and gear them and make game gold takes the time away that one could put to better use.
I applaud those gamers that are able to balance all the activities that make their lives full, but I seem to have tunnel vision and just can't do all the things that interest me to the levels that I would like.

Not having a computer definitely puts the online gaming on the back burner. This poses some problem with me because I am interested in looking in on the Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG that will be coming out soon.

If it seems like I am contradicting myself I bloody well am. It was Star Wars Galaxies that introduced me to the MMORPG genre in the first place ten years ago.
This could work if I could only find balance and equilibrium for my loves and my bliss.

My brain seems to realize this, but something happens once in front of the monitor--engaged in combat with the developer created pixels and code. And with a mouse in hand clicking for my life.... To what ends?