Friends, family, and long-time readers may (or may not) recall my post after the weekend of May 1-3, 2009. You can read about it here. Why would it be remembered at all? Well, it was a fun weekend with two trips to San Francisco (one planned and one not), a great play, an awesome art museum, some great vegetarian food, and a bunch of other stuff. Big fun except for one big thing. For the only time in my life, I lost my cell phone. I was massively bummed about it and of course worried that someone would find it and call the North Pole for a hundred hours at a time or some other awful thing that would drive my bill sky-high. And all the pictures on the cell phone were of course lost, hundreds of them. Anyway, I felt awful and as I mentioned it forced a second trip to San Francisco to look for it (refresh your memory here).
We didn’t find it. We thought we had looked everywhere.
Well, wonder of wonders, I found the lost cell phone, day before yesterday. And NO it didn’t involve another trip to San Francisco! I was doing my favorite thing (not!), yard work, removing a couple plants from the front yard. And then, great googely-moogely! I saw it there, under where a large bushy plant had just been removed! I was stunned to put it mildly. After more than a year outdoors (including the cold, rainy winter and last year’s hot summer) it looked awful. It was gross and dirty and a little muddy and the touch screen looked like something you really wouldn’t want to touch. Ick.
I’m sure the phone is beyond dead, but just for the heck of it I took the memory card out of it and put it in a card reader. I plugged the card reader into my laptop and WOW WOW WOW I was able to read the card! There were 349 pictures that I thought we lost and also some short videos that we haven’t been able to view yet. As Huell Howser would say, “That’s a-MAY-zing!!!” Seriously, we were shocked to find the phone and even more shocked to find out the card was actually savable. I saved off all the photos and video and then tried the card in my replacement phone. No luck but that’s ok since I have it all saved now. Yay!
That’s a-MAY-zing!!! Glad for you that you have all those photos and videos back 😉