paranoia will employ ya

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In my line of work, all work is digital. We store our work in giant databases. When the database goes kerplunk, you damned well better have reliable backups. I've been royally fucked in the past by relying on other people backing up my stuff, so when I built my company, I entrusted backups to the only person I've ever truly loved. Me.

"What's that grinding sound?" I thought last weekend. Something in my closet sounded like gravel in a garbage disposal.

That was the hard drive. All data was lost.

Eep.

An intense 24 hours later, I'd recovered all the data from the offsite backups, and nothing was lost. With great relief, we all tried to remember the last time we'd seen a happy ending to this situation. No one ever had.

"Finally," sighed Rich, "John's pathological paranoia works fer me instead of a-ginst me."