Backups
06-SE-05
When you’ve put three years of your life into a project and you can finally just about see the finish line certain things start to occur to you. For one thing you wonder what the hell you’re going to do with the next three years. But then you’d only half planned the previous three, so hey, it’ll probably work itself out on its own; so that’s no big deal. The other thing that does come up quite a bit is that it occurs to you more and more that all this time and work you’ve devoted yourself to can fit onto one tiny, flammable hard drive that is really just about the most delicate thing you own. And when you really let that sink in your body swells with a kind of sheer terror that quickly develops a very paternal instinct for a little bundle of silicon wonder and all it’s little backup-copy siblings.
But then you realize you’re just tired after putting in another long day of tracing and animating and just really want to get some sleep. The end is close gang… Relatively speaking. But close.