Er, HI. Haven’t seen you since… Wednesday? Yikes.
The end of last week was busy, the weekend was busy… today’s been the first at-home day I’ve had since last blog post. I just spent two hours recreating my iTunes playlists so I can sync my iPod (first time since The Big Crash.) Sync looks to be [...]

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I’ve spent the past few day settling in with my “new” computer, settling down to some new routines, and trying to change the way I approach the things I try to do during the day. I’ve been somewhat successful at working in some freewrite time during the day, and I’m slowly getting back into a [...]

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Originally I was very focused on getting my computer back exactly as it had been before the crash; same settings and desktops and icons and colors and… everything. I just wanted it all back, exactly as before. I’m finding I like the fresh start after all. Lost all my Firefox bookmarks, but now I’m making [...]

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Lappy is home as of Saturday night, and I’m a full day into application-installing, preference-setting, upgrading, data-importing, serial number look-upping and comparative file-replacing. Right now I’m ripping the contents of my iPod back into iTunes. (This time, with playlists!)
Oh. I did lose all my data, btw. I suppose I should have said that at the [...]

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Just an update on the last post — as it turns out, I did *NOT* lose the Serenitatis and Serapii-Kisu material I thought I had; I did lose my trip photos, many downloaded pictures, some resources, layouts and settings. Bookmarks, the like.
Did some work on Selene last night. The character I’d started working on [...]

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Just moments after posting, earlier today, my computer crashed. Rather, I should say that every program locked up, in a stream, over a period of ten to fifteen seconds. The menu bar started to freak out, and as nothing else responded, I had to force-shutdown. Seeing this as a signal to take a shower, take [...]

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Without my laptop to distract me, there’s really no excuse NOT to clean the house from top to bottom — using Johan’s PC to check email (and blog) is sufficiently slow and blicky to keep me on-task. I’m struggling to not stomp around frustrated all day. It’s not that I want to be working — [...]

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