I have a tendency to keep paper backups of important stuff.  I have a long, dramatic, love-hate relationship with technology.  My computers regularly crash on me, and it doesn't matter if I built it, my computer-geek friends built it, or it's store-bought.  If something *can* go wrong, it will.

I still have a harddrive with half my photography locked in it that I can no longer access because the drive failed.

So I keep things on paper.  I make notes, I have a paper calendar, I have a paper phone book.

I began my Media Reflections posts and have notes everywhere.  I have a whole folder on my computer of topics I want to write about and haven't gotten around to yet.

But one day I noticed that a particular TV show that I watch gives me a topic pretty much ever episode.  So I went back to the beginning and watched every episode, in order, and took notes in a notebook and never got around to making a digital copy because I put more faith in the analog versions to not fail.  

And I've lost that notebook.

Argh!

Now I have to go through and watch the whole series, again, just for the purpose of taking notes.  And I know if I save them only to a computer file, my external drive will choose that time to finally fail before I've gotten a backup system in place and I'll lose it there too.