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.