what did you want to do today? Was there something you were in the mood for?
Who’s to say that you’re not allowed a day of rest every now and again? Or that spending an hour doing something you’d enjoy (such as making a card) isn’t important? If you don’t give yourself opportunities to recharge your batteries (both physically and mentally) every now and again, you’ll burn/stress/guilt yourself out.
Keep in mind, if you were in training for a marathon, your schedule wouldn’t have you out and running every day. That’s not how it works. You have to allow yourself recovery time.
Just at the moment, any drinking of water is a good thing for me, as I suspect I’ve been within the realms of dehydration for a while now. I’ll keep going with the morning/evening routine for the two weeks, so that I’m getting at least that in… and then change to the eight-a-day.
I’m happy to have my data back. The question that remains for me is whether the issues other people experienced were also due to faulty cables, or if there’s still a chance the drive could fail further down the line. Do I want to keep using a drive that could die at any moment?