Prepare the blue fire

[stillsostrange]

It's a bright side/dark side sort of week. On the bright side, my local B&N had several copies of Kingdoms, and copies of Brave New Love. Also, my unfucking habits have held on: not only is the kitchen clean, but I have coffee prepped and ready for tomorrow morning, and made my lunch. Also also, I went to a new dentist today, and was quite happy with her. My cavity was filled with entirely no fuss or pain, and I didn't have any other cavities lurking out of sight.

On the dark side... My laptop Jadis died yesterday. She'd been running slow for a while, so I freed up some memory and rebooted. Only for her to never wake up from the reboot. Steven still isn't sure what the problem is, but it does seem like most of my data is intact, somewhere out of reach. Say it with me now, children:

Back up early. Back up often.

So I'm borrowing Steven's Macbook for the time being, and hoping for the best.

Comments

[mmaresca.livejournal.com]

If I hadn't done a full backup literally the night before my total harddrive meltdown the other day, I would be a shell of a man right now.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

I am so damn glad that I emailed copies of various things to readers recently. The one trouble with Scrivener is that the extra few clicks it takes to compile the document to .doc or RTF means I'm less likely to have a recent backup in email.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

I ended up moving all of my Scrivener files to Dropbox, and then having a separate 'automatic daily backup to THE CLOUD' folder where it saves a zip file of all my open documents every time I close the program. It makes shutdown a bit slower, but it was a godsend at my last hard drive failure.

[afterglowey.livejournal.com]

I just set up an online auto-sync thing on my laptop recently and feeling so SAFE (and oh-so-smug) about it. Cloud! Backup! Accessible from any computer! I highly recommend it. It just sits in the background tootling away. Literally every time I hit ctrl-s, it backs up.

[sophielandon.livejournal.com]

We have two kinds of backup for our PCs: CrashPlan, a cloud backup service that just sort of lurks and sends a few files every time you're not otherwise busy, and Acronis, which does weekly big incremental backups of the whole systems onto a multi-terabyte disk drive that lives in the closet.

[magpie49.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Kingdoms... My husband bought an e-reader for himself, and offered to purchase books for me if I wanted. At the moment he offered, I didn't have anything I especially wanted, and I was in the middle of library books. Couple days ago, I asked if the offer was still open. Yes. So I bought Kingdoms as my first eBook. Ever.
Yay.

Further, I planned to read Kingoms in comfy chunks, before bedtime, and make it last a week or so. That plan failed the third night in. I just had to find out what happened next, and next, and next... and finished the book before the sun rose.

Awesome.

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

WHAT, WHAT
My laptop just rolled over and croaked on the same day yours did

I was however thinking that it was going to fall apart pretty soon and so I was honestly using it like a cloud computer, I used it to do stuff in google docs so i wouldn't have to fuss about with transferring files to/from the desktop. The only thing on the drive that I *lost* was logfiles from instant message sessions.