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Another week has gone by, without a chat with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nyghtshayde, and I am seriously suffering withdrawal symptoms. The problem is, the hard disk went down as well as the motherboard, leaving me completely bereft of a means to get back online from my home.
I blame the pisspoor anti-virus protection provided by the ISP, myself. They are a company bereft of clue. I suspect that, in spite of firewall software and at least two anti-virus software packages on my system, Something Got Through over the broadband connection and completely burned out my computer, causing the boot disk to fail catastrophically, just when I had the motherboard problems sorted out.
I've got some backed up data, but not all of it: I was in the process of performing the backup of my most critical recent files when all of this crap happened. And since this included the latest incarnation of my novel, well ...
I guess that, when I get my system back up and running (which will involve a rebuild from scratch - since I have acquired pretty much enough spare parts now to build one afresh from the ground up - I might want to do something else with it other than keep it running over broadband and risk losing all of my data once again some time down the line.
So, when I do get the new system running, it's probably going to be best if I take that system and keep it permanently offline, use it solely to write with, and use the public library facilities to post new stuff online (I might avail myself of a memory stick to carry all of the stuff I'll need to upload).
Thing is, if there are enough spare parts left over, I can get a new hard drive, probably more memory, some other parts somewhere down the line, and get myself a second, smaller, unit - and that's the one I'll be connecting online for chats.
But this does mean, T, that it may now be some considerable time before you start seeing my cheerful little icon apoear in your Yahoo Messenger on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. I'm so sorry, hon. :(
nyghtshayde, and I am seriously suffering withdrawal symptoms. The problem is, the hard disk went down as well as the motherboard, leaving me completely bereft of a means to get back online from my home.I blame the pisspoor anti-virus protection provided by the ISP, myself. They are a company bereft of clue. I suspect that, in spite of firewall software and at least two anti-virus software packages on my system, Something Got Through over the broadband connection and completely burned out my computer, causing the boot disk to fail catastrophically, just when I had the motherboard problems sorted out.
I've got some backed up data, but not all of it: I was in the process of performing the backup of my most critical recent files when all of this crap happened. And since this included the latest incarnation of my novel, well ...
I guess that, when I get my system back up and running (which will involve a rebuild from scratch - since I have acquired pretty much enough spare parts now to build one afresh from the ground up - I might want to do something else with it other than keep it running over broadband and risk losing all of my data once again some time down the line.
So, when I do get the new system running, it's probably going to be best if I take that system and keep it permanently offline, use it solely to write with, and use the public library facilities to post new stuff online (I might avail myself of a memory stick to carry all of the stuff I'll need to upload).
Thing is, if there are enough spare parts left over, I can get a new hard drive, probably more memory, some other parts somewhere down the line, and get myself a second, smaller, unit - and that's the one I'll be connecting online for chats.
But this does mean, T, that it may now be some considerable time before you start seeing my cheerful little icon apoear in your Yahoo Messenger on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. I'm so sorry, hon. :(
Shit happens...
It's like I already said, next semester, I probably won't be able to have regular chats except for Fridays and Sundays because of the way my schedule's going to fall. I've got three classes that are all later afternoon classes. If I get the classes I want, this is how my schedule will look:
MWF
10-10:50am Beginning Spanish II
MW
2:30-3:45pm Creative Writing
TTh
12:30-1:45 State and Local Gov't
2-3:15pm Literature of the English Romantic Era
That's how my days are going to look. MW are going to drive me crazy because I may not get home till a little after 5pm. Unless I can get a ride with someone. So yeah...chats will wind up being Fridays and Sundays in the spring semester which will start January 11th.