Close Encounters with the Blue Screen of Death

[rheasilvia]

Two weeks ago, my computer died on me - and due to a series of what basically amounts to the pc equivalents of amusing pratfalls and pies in the face (or rather the mainboard), it's taken me until now to get a new system up and running. Before you ask, no, I hadn't made a proper safety copy of all my data. I have always been obsessive about backing everything up... except for the last couple of months, when I relaxed because I had a brand-new harddrive and too much trust in the universe. (Yeah, you can already hear the audience beginning to chortle as the pie is raised.)

To summarize: Argh.

Still, subtract the stress of suddenly being thrust into a pc-less world and the damage isn't that bad. I have the latest versions of my most important files, by which I mean my various writing endeavors. :-) The rest, I can beg, borrow and/or steal, as appropriate. (Thank you, solo___ and k_julia, for letting me. *g*)

But. Uhm. There's this new thing. I hesitate to call it a fandom just yet, especially since I have of course managed to slide into it ass-backwards and wrong way up and then compounded the problem by insisting on not actually being interested in any of the main pairings that anyone *else* in the world is interested in. Noooo, of course I had to go and find myself a corner of the new playground in which I am absolutely alone. And then collect a huge bunch of pics and info and videos in a very short time and start writing a story at breakneck speeds - and then have the data go poof and the story stall for lack of a real computer to write it on.

Argh, squared.

Vague enough yet? *g* Yeah, you'll hear more about this new thing (TM) soon, when I have gathered the resolve to out myself. Just let me whine a bit first. ;-)

Anyway! If anything interesting / exciting / wonderful happened in the last two weeks that you think I should know about, please let me know!

Also, just how subsceptible are you guys to pimpage...?

Why I ask? Oh... no particular reason. *whistles*

Comments

[ellensmithee.livejournal.com]

Woo for the new fandom! (I'm almost afraid to ask what it is... ;-))

And I can totally emphasize about the comp. I dumped water into my laptop and killed it earlier this week.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Woo for the new fandom! (I'm almost afraid to ask what it is... ;-))

And with good reason. :-) I don't even really know how to go about trying to pimp this. Sorry for being so vague, I'm just not ready to come out about this yet. *g*

Will think on the matter, assemble pimping DVD and suddenly drop by your house when you are alone and defenceless. *evil cackle*

And on the laptop woes, wahh... who has angered the computer gods of the Rhineland??

[ellensmithee.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I've been expecting my work comp to conk out soon since it's three years old and I was ready to buy a new one, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to buy a laptop and a PC by the end of the year.

Now I'm really curious about your new fandom. And pimp away. ;))

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

I really don't know what this is - my DVD recorder/player has also been very sickly these past few days. :-/ Is it an epidemic, maybe?

Yeah. Will get back to you on the fandom thing. Once I get over myself, and maybe have some fiction as a pimping aid. *g*