We don't have cats in the house, or dogs. Once we had both, and the dog tipped a speaker over on my laptop that was on the floor (was working while on my stomach). HD was okay so we just transferred everything.

But then, there was the time I was 5000 words into a story, and I got worried that I didn't have backup. 5000 was a lot for me back then. Even now it would be a loss of about 15-30 hours.

So my husband installed a CD burner in my computer for me. During that process, we had to unplug the harddrive. It was only a year old, but it fried. All gone. Everything I'd ever written that I hadn't printed out.

At the time I told him that I would rather break both my arms than lose all of that. 

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