wasted time
wasted time

Wasted Time

Wasted Time
Wasted Time

Wasted Time

I have had a rough couple of days, which have resulted in a lot of wasted time unfortunately. It all began yesterday morning.

I have a three-year-old Asus, but the only good thing I can say about it is that the battery still holds a two-hour charge, something that none of my other laptops have been capable of after the six-month warranty had expired. Anyway, back to yesterday morning.

I brought it out of hibernation and the hard-drive was making a noise like a clapped out motorcycle, so I thought it was time to set up a routine of automatic, off-computer back-ups. Now, I have been using computers for thirty-four years, so I am aware of the necessity of doing this, but I have not been successful at setting it up on the Asus so far. However, I tried again since the warning from my HD had been so ominous.

This evening, forty-eight hours later, I am writing this to you in the ‘pub’, but I still do not have my back-up routine established.

I have a Recovery Disc, but what use is that if your computer gives up the ghost? The recovery pack does not include the data – my manuscripts and stories – that I will need to pick up my life from before, and I will get a new operating system with the new computer that I will have to buy, since this one is already showing its age at three.

No, the last forty-eight hours have shown me once again that following traditions and accepted wisdom slavishly is a waste of time. An automated back-up of one’s data off the computer is far more important than backing up the operating system.

Luckily, that is the other feature that distinguished the Asus for me – the ease with which it is possible to automatically back up one’s file data to their computers (Cloud) free of charge. I have that working, but I want a physical back-up of my own as well – just n case.

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Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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