I spend a lot of time in front of computers and I totally love what they can do for me on most days. Today was not one of those days. While I’d like to blame the computer itself, I can’t. Apple isn’t to blame either. This was all my fault.
What I hate about computers is that they are very unforgiving. When you make a big mistake, you end up paying the price. There isn’t an apology in the world that will fix the situation. That’s just the way it is.
So, what did I do wrong? Well, the entire story behind the situation doesn’t really matter. Basically, I ended up changing the permissions of my entire drive to my user account. About two seconds after I clicked ‘OK’, I realized that what I did was not a good thing. When I tried to reboot my machine, it just sat there laughing at me.
Thanks to Time Machine, I was able to restore from a very recent backup but that took a few hours. I kind of wish that I had tried to do this right off the bad but I wanted to see if there was a quicker way to resolve the situation. Now that it’s 10pm and things are pretty much fixed, my brain is totally maxed out and I’ll be doing the comic tomorrow. Now I’ll sleep.
