{"id":623,"date":"2009-03-16T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T23:50:48","slug":"home-fire-what-to-grab-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/home-fire-what-to-grab-first","title":{"rendered":"Home Fire: What to Grab First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_624\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-624  \" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"housewarming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/housewarming-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"housewarming\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/housewarming-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/housewarming.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image by Andrea @ the-mugwump.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Friday I was feeling pretty worn down and eventually I left work early, at 5pm.  Saturday I had to take care of some stuff, and I&#8217;m sure it didn&#8217;t help my immune system any.  Saturday and Sunday I felt like&#8230;  icky ick.  I called into work on Sunday night so, if needed, I give my body the rest it needed.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, at 8:30am the fire alarm was going off.  Not the ringing noise you would expect to hear, but the funky Start Trek siren when being targeted by the &#8220;Get out of bed boy!&#8221; aliens. \u00a0So much for sleeping in.<\/p>\n<p>I threw some clothes on, deactivated the alarm in my suite and then looked around my apartment thinking, &#8220;I have no idea if this is real. If it is real, then what should I grab?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The solution was actually pretty simple.  I grabbed my backup drives.  1TB worth of my work, personal records, 3D projects, demo reel, home movies, photos&#8230; etc.  This stuff is irreplaceable.  It also made me realize that I need to have an off-site backup. When I was about 15 years old, I learned the hard way when my dad&#8217;s apartment burned down. In this digital age, you have no excuse for not having backups.  Especially considering you can get a 500GB drive for about $100.<\/p>\n<p>I have other important stuff, but most of that is pretty fireproof and (more importantly) water proof.<\/p>\n<p>Good news is, on the walk down the stairwell I ran into the firefighters. They said it was a false alarm that was due to the dust from the construction on the first floor. \u00a0I went back upstairs, stripped and continued my sleep till 12:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>My only regret: \u00a0I had my video camera in hand, yet wasn&#8217;t recording. \u00a0I&#8217;ve gotta make it a habit to always have it running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I was feeling pretty worn down and eventually I left work early, at 5pm. Saturday I had to take care of some stuff, and I&#8217;m sure it didn&#8217;t help my immune system any. Saturday and Sunday I felt like&#8230; icky ick. I called into work on Sunday night so, if needed, I give my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,179,181,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}