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calimeMy computer up and died on me last night. After a shortlived agony it's not booting up any more. Which, in a computer, tends to be a rather BAD THING. I tentatively blame the webcam driver I installed, because a) this was the last install I did and b) my dear departed's last words were on the line of serious system error and an unknown driver. Though, of course, it can be something else and far more disastrous. Grrr!
Fortunately, there's a laptop that's not quite mine, but mine to use, so at least the connection to the wide world is reestablished and the digital tv is working again. Meaning I can get my translation done before Monday.
*sigh* I'll drag the pc to work with me tomorrow and ask a coworker to look at it. If all goes well, he manages to get it going and won't die of schock because of my screensaver (which is the super pretty one by Killa and Melina *eg*). If all doesn't go well...I may have to take the 'puter to repairs or something. I'm very glad that my bookmarks are backed up on the foxmarks server...and that most of what I have on my hard drive is reproducible. Some unfinished fic stuff is not...but well, nothing's perfect. I just wish that it hadn't happened right at the time when I'd managed a) to get a bit over 100 hours of music conviniently into the 'puter and b) when I've just spent all spare cash on registering for HLWW8 and paying the stable rent.
On the bright side, I have two laptops I can use meanwhile, and *drum roll* most of the books by Mary Renault I'd ordered have arrived. Thank you very much for reccing them,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cyberducks and my_cnnr! I consoled myself last night with "Charioteer", and of course could not go to sleep until I was halfway through the book... I find myself liking the writing style very much...
Fortunately, there's a laptop that's not quite mine, but mine to use, so at least the connection to the wide world is reestablished and the digital tv is working again. Meaning I can get my translation done before Monday.
*sigh* I'll drag the pc to work with me tomorrow and ask a coworker to look at it. If all goes well, he manages to get it going and won't die of schock because of my screensaver (which is the super pretty one by Killa and Melina *eg*). If all doesn't go well...I may have to take the 'puter to repairs or something. I'm very glad that my bookmarks are backed up on the foxmarks server...and that most of what I have on my hard drive is reproducible. Some unfinished fic stuff is not...but well, nothing's perfect. I just wish that it hadn't happened right at the time when I'd managed a) to get a bit over 100 hours of music conviniently into the 'puter and b) when I've just spent all spare cash on registering for HLWW8 and paying the stable rent.
On the bright side, I have two laptops I can use meanwhile, and *drum roll* most of the books by Mary Renault I'd ordered have arrived. Thank you very much for reccing them,
cyberducks and my_cnnr! I consoled myself last night with "Charioteer", and of course could not go to sleep until I was halfway through the book... I find myself liking the writing style very much...
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Date: 2006-07-23 06:11 pm (UTC)*8 more slides and I can take a
bookbreak...*