Backing Up My Backup

My friends have all left Bangkok and I spent the day doing annoying things like laundry, attempting to get a Myanmar visa, and heading to a massive shopping centre dedicated to electronics to buy a second portable hard drive.

Yesterday I was scare-mongered into doing something about the fact that all of my photos (about 100 gigs) from the past five years of my life are on one portable hard drive and nowhere else. If something were to happen to that hard drive I would be kicking myself into next week and my friends pointed this important fact out to me.

So I finally decided that backing up my backup was essential for my peace of mind and took a cab to this huge, impressive shopping centre for computer and other electronic goodies. The place is six or seven floors of chaos but has everything you could ever hope for as far as computer goods go.

I wandered around for a while before seeing the same model, a Seagate Free Agent, that I currently have. I figured sticking with a drive that hasn’t let me down is a smart move and picked up a 250 gig model for 3600 bath which is about $104 USD by today’s exchange rate. I think I paid about 80 quid a couple years ago for a 160 gig model so I can’t really complain about that price.

So now I’ve got some more annoying things on my plate for my last 24 hours in Bangkok. I’m about to back up all of my files to the second hard drive, tickets to Chang Mai need to be booked, Myanmar visas need to be collected and then tomorrow I’m off to the post office to send the smaller drive home to Canada for safe keeping. It’ll certainly be a relief knowing that my old photos are safe and sound and I’m looking forward to filling up another 100 gigs worth of new stuff.

I’ll be hopping a bus to Chang Mai tomorrow night to catch up with my friends again and have another week of fun before I will have to get down to some serious work. My August earnings update will hopefully be coming tomorrow and things should be getting back on track around here pretty soon. Who knew the whole work/travel thing would be so tricky?