Wondrous:
- Collaborative project growing by leaps and bounds, eating my brains and the brains of others.
- One of those brains is making art for us based on a recent photoshoot. It’s going to be sweet.
- Sent out stories that needed to be submitted.
- Things in the Dream Cafe are better than they’ve been in months, though still lots of room for improvement.
- Climbing is fun.
- Progress being made on other writing projects.
World peace achieved.
Terrible:
- I can’t seem to retain a phone. On yet another temporary one. This is probably related to shifting habits in dress resulting in a drastic lack of pockets. I need to carry my laptop bag more.
- I haven’t been climbing in weeks due to various things.
- The laptop died tonight.
- The laptop died tonight.
No that’s not repetitive. It died twice.
I’ve been having graphics card issues so I installed new drivers. As usual, the computer needed to reboot at the end. I clicked ‘yes’ to reboot and then lay down for a nap. When I woke up the computer would not boot — a bluescreen o’ death with an unmountable boot drive.
No problem — I’ll run checkdisk. Except now suddenly not only is the hard drive acting up, but the computer itself won’t run for more than 10 minutes without spontaneously shutting off, regardless of whether its plugged in or not. Even with the hard drive taken out.
I call up Dell, wait 10 minutes to speak to a tech, get disconnected. On the second call I spend 40 minutes with a very helpful technician. The result — I’m sending it back to them, sans hard drive.
We’ll be taking the hard drive down to our favorite local computer shop tomorrow for data recovery. If they can hook it up to one of their computers and run checkdisk I have high hopes for it. I also have my fingers crossed — Kit’s awesome backup habits have fallen to shit in the recent stressful times. Losing files right now would make Kit a very, very sad panda.
Even if I can recover files I get to spend ‘4-5 business days+ shipping time’ without my laptop. In the middle of ramping up toward late September launch of a very important project.
This blows.
