Like a phoenix

[loaded_march]

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 aftercamlann.  I'm testing to see if it has legs before I sign up, though.

How has everyone been?

Comments

[side-steppings.livejournal.com]

What with not actually having a laptop at the moment all my stuff is scattered across two external hard drives, a USB drive, and google docs which is a bit of a nightmare to be honest!!

That's bad luck to have that many crashes though!!! Hope you sort it, and we'll all join you in mourning for the potential fiction!!

Yay for ACBB though! I love your Big Bang fics so I'm excited to see what you come up with :) I'm signed up as a cheerleader at the moment as until I have a laptop of my own I can't commit to writing but hopefully I'll be able to!

[loaded-march.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine keeping track of everything when they're scattered that much! I hope you do manage to swing a laptop and are able to sign up for ACBB!