…that was in fact a catastrophic hard drive failure. I brought it in, the lads at Geek City said “Oh dear, that’s not a virus, that error message means your hard drive has just gone bad, might as well buy a new one because it’ll cost as much to fix it to get a new one.” Thank God for Dropbox. o.O Turns out Fairbanks is not a great place to buy a new netbook, though. Which is mildly inconvenient, since I’d been planning to, y’know, work this week. But I’ll…
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dissolving day
This day’s plans have been sort of dissolving from the get-go. I checked email (or at lest Twitter) this morning and in the course of doing so experienced a catastrophic hard drive failure on my netboo from which I have not yet been able to recover. This would be vastly more upsetting if I didn’t have a pretty up-to-date Dropbox backup and a reasonable amount of confidence that I haven’t lost anything irreplaceable. Let’s hear it for off-site storage. o.O Now I’m blogging from Ted’s Asus tablet, which I am…
a blog post!
Probably a blog post of tiny proportion, because it is dependent on how long Young Indiana naps, but I’m going to make a try for it! :) NYCC and its surrounds were terrific. I met a lot of readers (and missed a few, which is absolutely tragic, and if you were there and I missed you I’m terribly sorry). Among some of the highlights were my honest-to-God first fan ever, someone who read the teaser chapter for URBAN SHAMAN off Jim Butcher’s website before the book was even out, and…
alaska!
in alaska. completely knackered. going to anchorage tomorrow. see you there. :)
harlequin booth meetup
Tomorrow’s meetup is postponed until 1pm. Find me at the Harlequin booth in the 2000 block! (picture courtesy of Jeditigger!