Ardath Rekha

The good news: My data is safe. The Best Buy guys (who are made of awesome and have my love forever) will have it all backed up to a portable drive that I can access as of tomorrow.

The bad news: My laptop's motherboard is friiiiied. So the laptop is shipping out to the factory for repairs (it's not only under the Best Buy service plan but also under factory warranty because I bought it on August 30th... so it almost but not quite survived to the end of that).

I will probably see my laptop again in, oh, say, three weeks.

In the meantime I will spend approximately the next week or two hobbled, using my elderly desktop, and then I'll get a new desktop to handle my heavy programs so that I can stop murdering laptops in under a year apiece. Seriously, I've now killed two laptops in two years; I need to rethink this. (In my defense, each time it was the hardware that failed, but it's a strike against me that the failures were all undoubtedly caused by the super-heavy usage I gave the machines.)

So, uh... yeah... I'm back on the elderly desktop for the next two weeks. We'll see what happens after that, exactly.