I went to the library this morning to send some emails and do a blog post. The gods had other ideas; my reliable old laptop wouldn\u2019t boot. It went into an endless loop of error messages and unfollowable instructions.<\/p>\n
I came home and re-installed the OS, hoping that would be the solution. But nope. The looping errors quit, but so did everything else. The only good sign: I can look at the directories via a live DVD and see that data (Some? All? A smidge?) is intact. Otherwise I\u2019m without contact and without clue.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m composing this on a phone, which I\u2019m glad to have, but OMG. I\u2019m not sure when I\u2019ll be back and fully functional. <\/p>\n
Weird feeling. Part of me says it\u2019s a disaster, especially because there\u2019s recent email I don\u2019t want to lose. Another part of me feels liberated from the machine. <\/p>\n
I think I\u2019ll spend the afternoon making apple-apricot chutney. I may be limited to blogging via the library\u2019s desktop machines for some unknown time, but today I\u2019m not going to worry about it.<\/p>\n
Good luck to us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I went to the library this morning to send some emails and do a blog post. The gods had other ideas; my reliable old laptop wouldn\u2019t boot. It went into an endless loop of error messages and unfollowable instructions. I came home and re-installed the OS, hoping that would be the solution. But nope. The looping errors quit, but so did everything else. The only good sign: I can look at the directories via a live DVD and see that data (Some? All? A smidge?) is intact. Otherwise I\u2019m without contact and without clue. I\u2019m composing this on a phone,…<\/p>\n