Lost and Lost
I don't, generally speaking, lose things.
(I didn't lose my virginity, for example. I bequeathed it.)
But a couple of nights ago, when Zach and I were at the taping of "The Class," one of my favorite earrings went AWOL. I'm sure it had to do with pulling the new fleeces on and off, but knowing that is cold (no pun intended) comfort. We even drove back to the lot and convinced a security guard to take us back to the sound stage so that we could look around, but no luck.
This irritates me because a) I really like these particular earrings and b) I've had them for something like 10 years, so I've gotten rather attached to them.
To add to my chagrin, my e-mail address book up and disappeared about a week ago. My geriatric computer was hobbling along almost as slowly as I do, so I figured I'd try the universal Mac cure-all and restart the damn thing.
Well, that worked not at all. And as an extra bonus, the e-mail addresses I've collected since Internet immemorial leapt like lemmings, en masse, from my hard drive.
Zach and I headed to the Genius Bar at one of L.A.'s Apple stores, hopeful that the prodigies there would work their brand of techno-magic and the addresses would miraculously rematerialize. (We'd just seen "The Prestige," so we had prestidigitation on the brain.)
In a word, no.
Our assigned genius (wearing a shirt labeled thusly) was completely stumped. He tried a few abracadabras and then offered his condolences.
Because, of course, I had made a critical error and NOT BACKED UP.
I think I will be able to recreate part of the address book using my spam filter, but it's at best a partial solution. For one thing, it will not in any way enable me to restore the groups I had carefully create.
And this is extra-frustrating because I was just about to use one of those very groups to send out a message about Zach's upcoming TV appearance.
So . . . if you would like to be included in my new, improved, and religiously backed-up e-mail address book, please click here to send me a message to that effect. If you'd also like to be in the new, improved, and religiously backed-up "Zach Appearances" group, click here instead.
Oh, and if you are smarter than the Apple store geniuses and know how to restore my address book in one fell swoop, please click here to make my day.
(I didn't lose my virginity, for example. I bequeathed it.)
But a couple of nights ago, when Zach and I were at the taping of "The Class," one of my favorite earrings went AWOL. I'm sure it had to do with pulling the new fleeces on and off, but knowing that is cold (no pun intended) comfort. We even drove back to the lot and convinced a security guard to take us back to the sound stage so that we could look around, but no luck.
This irritates me because a) I really like these particular earrings and b) I've had them for something like 10 years, so I've gotten rather attached to them.
To add to my chagrin, my e-mail address book up and disappeared about a week ago. My geriatric computer was hobbling along almost as slowly as I do, so I figured I'd try the universal Mac cure-all and restart the damn thing.
Well, that worked not at all. And as an extra bonus, the e-mail addresses I've collected since Internet immemorial leapt like lemmings, en masse, from my hard drive.
Zach and I headed to the Genius Bar at one of L.A.'s Apple stores, hopeful that the prodigies there would work their brand of techno-magic and the addresses would miraculously rematerialize. (We'd just seen "The Prestige," so we had prestidigitation on the brain.)
In a word, no.
Our assigned genius (wearing a shirt labeled thusly) was completely stumped. He tried a few abracadabras and then offered his condolences.
Because, of course, I had made a critical error and NOT BACKED UP.
I think I will be able to recreate part of the address book using my spam filter, but it's at best a partial solution. For one thing, it will not in any way enable me to restore the groups I had carefully create.
And this is extra-frustrating because I was just about to use one of those very groups to send out a message about Zach's upcoming TV appearance.
So . . . if you would like to be included in my new, improved, and religiously backed-up e-mail address book, please click here to send me a message to that effect. If you'd also like to be in the new, improved, and religiously backed-up "Zach Appearances" group, click here instead.
Oh, and if you are smarter than the Apple store geniuses and know how to restore my address book in one fell swoop, please click here to make my day.
posted by Jody Rosen Knower at 6:35 AM
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