the last twenty-four hours have been mind-meldingly stressful. as you may or may not recall if you’ve read here long, i lost a drive in 2002 and the backups were bad and as a result, i lost 17 years or writing. it was one of the strong motivators for this place.
yesterday, history repeated itself. and i’m sitting here being angry because all my careful planning and preparation didn’t save a damn thing. i had been trying to back up my data to an ftp site and the damn thing kept failing. so i thought, ‘ok, whatever, i’ll back it up to my data drive and worry about how to get it stashed online tomorrow.’
well. as usual, a day late and many dollars short, the motherboard flakes and takes both drives with it. both. drives.
i cannot afford a new system, and the components that could move over are already of a type that new motherboards do not support. the video card, the memory, and of course, the cpu.
i’m on a loan machine while i try to figure out what the hell to do now. financing a machine is out — i’m still battling from the losses of 2001 and credit is far from approvable. cash is not available until at least mid-may from the look of it.
there is a small reseller locally who may be willing to work a layaway with me. but i doubt they’re going to let me have this loaner through may. so. i may be offline a time. accessible while at work, but that’s hardly accessible… after all, i’m working.
on the upside, it will really give me a good look at life without technology. so i suppose i’ll see if that’s something i am really interested in or not.
never let it be said the universe doesn’t take what you tell it seriously. (grumpy look)