The Lucky Dead
Feb. 9th, 2009 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liralenMy desktop machine died today. Whee!
I'm very glad that I posted the drabbles nearly as fast as I came up with them and I had copies of the last chapter in gmail, since I'd sent them to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
incandescens, and she got the first one back to me! Yay! I didn't lose any edits, and my memory stick has everything else, and I'd just made my New Years backup (late for me, as I did it on Lunar New Year instead of the Solar New Year).
But I'm on my laptop and I deliberately deleted and demolished all my IM abilities on it... other than the built-in gmail chat stuff. So if you're used to IM'ing with me, this is a notice that I'm unlikely to show up any time soon. Cold Turkey... I always have to do things the hard way, I guess.
I'm very glad that I posted the drabbles nearly as fast as I came up with them and I had copies of the last chapter in gmail, since I'd sent them to
incandescens, and she got the first one back to me! Yay! I didn't lose any edits, and my memory stick has everything else, and I'd just made my New Years backup (late for me, as I did it on Lunar New Year instead of the Solar New Year). But I'm on my laptop and I deliberately deleted and demolished all my IM abilities on it... other than the built-in gmail chat stuff. So if you're used to IM'ing with me, this is a notice that I'm unlikely to show up any time soon. Cold Turkey... I always have to do things the hard way, I guess.
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Date: 2009-02-10 03:06 am (UTC)And I'm really enjoying the edits. *laughs* An odd thing to say, but it's kind of amazing to see how many fewer outright problems there are now.
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Date: 2009-02-10 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-09 10:49 pm (UTC)Which reminds me... *slinks off guiltily*
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Date: 2009-02-10 03:07 am (UTC)*laughs*
I did get pretty much as lucky as I could get. *sweatdrop*
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Date: 2009-02-09 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-10 03:12 am (UTC)Thank you, to you, too!!
I dunno... I used to swap out hardware every year, and now do it on a day by day basis between our machines; so it's kind of cool to realize that all those reflexes I developed on how I organize and backup my data makes it really easy to recover from these things. So, yeah, it's not a great thing, but it's not been too troubling.