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Read this: The Moon Is On The Sea

I stumbled across the author while trawling for last minute icons to go with this post, and ah! Providence!

My computer problems? Aren't virus-related! They're hardware related. I think this goes back to October, that power surge that made me have to do the first recovery (why, oh, why didn't I have a surge protector).

I'm pretty sure the problem is the hard drive, and possibly the motherboard. But I'm hoping just the hard drive. Turning the computer on at all is a total crapshoot--even odds it'll stall, or ask me to ctrl alt del, ad infinitum--or actually come on. I'm hoping it can hold on till I can either have it repaired or replaced. I'm kinda attached, so I'm hoping for the former.

Been away from LJ for most of a fortnight--can't access it at work and I refrained from turning the computer on for days at a stretch. Even if it came on I was either fighting with it, or running innumerable--that turned out to be pointless--virus scans.

In short, I was not having fun cruising the information superhighway. But hell, if the diagnosis I eventually got was correct, this thing could keep running for another year, or die on me tomorrow, if I leave it as is. Que cera cera (sp?).

Okay, the first finished fic of the seven on my plate. I've lost drafts and drafts of this--it bears little resemblance to the fic I originally wrote, but . . . maybe that's for the best =D


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