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loaded_march) wrote2016-02-08 07:47 pm
loaded_march) wrote2016-02-08 07:47 pm
Like a phoenix
Since my last post, I got swamped at work, which, as usual, leaves me wiped out when I get home. The amount of energy I have left is based on accrued interest, and I'm owing a fair bit to the pool, so I stare at my computer for a while, click a few links, and go to bed.
Very recently, there was a lovely lull at work, where I said something I haven't said in years -- I'm bored. Not the bored where my job was dull and unengaging (which it isn't even on a bad day), but the bored where I've run out of work and I'm not entirely sure what I should do with myself. Huzzah! I get to go home with a surplus of energy to pay back the energy fund, and maybe get some writing done. I know I owe a gluten-free, refined sugar-free brownie recipe, which I will post as soon as... well. As soon as I get off my damn ass and get the hastily-jotted recipe card out of the tin.
But, yeah. I can't have nice things. My computer died.
Again.
That makes it twice in less than six months, and three times in just over a year. In the last two crashes, I lost substantial chunks of writing stuffs, and, of course, the backups failed both times. I even used different backup strategies!
Anyway, the frequency of the crashes and the symptoms were similar enough that I did the only thing possible: I bought a new hard drive, took my laptop apart, and replaced it. I reinstalled most of the software I had before and from an old, old backup, have most of my files, but I'm sad to say that I lost four months of original fiction and fanfiction that wasn't also copied to my thumb drive.
Which was a depressing amount.
The long and short of it is that, after a period of mourning (and reorganizing my files into something that didn't look like I just shoved everything in the same folder and called it good), I wrote 3K of what might possibly be a Big Bang fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
aftercamlann. I'm testing to see if it has legs before I sign up, though.
How has everyone been?
Very recently, there was a lovely lull at work, where I said something I haven't said in years -- I'm bored. Not the bored where my job was dull and unengaging (which it isn't even on a bad day), but the bored where I've run out of work and I'm not entirely sure what I should do with myself. Huzzah! I get to go home with a surplus of energy to pay back the energy fund, and maybe get some writing done. I know I owe a gluten-free, refined sugar-free brownie recipe, which I will post as soon as... well. As soon as I get off my damn ass and get the hastily-jotted recipe card out of the tin.
But, yeah. I can't have nice things. My computer died.
Again.
That makes it twice in less than six months, and three times in just over a year. In the last two crashes, I lost substantial chunks of writing stuffs, and, of course, the backups failed both times. I even used different backup strategies!
Anyway, the frequency of the crashes and the symptoms were similar enough that I did the only thing possible: I bought a new hard drive, took my laptop apart, and replaced it. I reinstalled most of the software I had before and from an old, old backup, have most of my files, but I'm sad to say that I lost four months of original fiction and fanfiction that wasn't also copied to my thumb drive.
Which was a depressing amount.
The long and short of it is that, after a period of mourning (and reorganizing my files into something that didn't look like I just shoved everything in the same folder and called it good), I wrote 3K of what might possibly be a Big Bang fic for
aftercamlann. I'm testing to see if it has legs before I sign up, though.How has everyone been?
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I try not to think about it.
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. . . that's probably a good policy, yes. :|