Dealing with loss...
...my laptop, faithful companion of 4 odd years has finally bitten the dust. -wipes eyes- I did buy it second hand, so it was much older then four years, so perhaps its time was coming but still...it shocks you ya know?
Especially when the darn thing crashes and you hadn't backed up a single god-blessed thing! The main reason for this post is to explain my rather long absence. My computer died, all my files were lost as in EVERYTHING. I was working on a chapter of Lost Gods, but that is tragically gone, I'll have to go from scratch and its never the same as the first, you always have a nagging feeling that what you had before was just better. I also had a size able chunk of the new chapter of Pursuit of Power. Alas, also all gone.
Kick me now for I do not know how to backup. Everyone says it too, backup your files, back it up constantly, never ending this task of backing up and yet I didn't listen. Though mind you I was paranoid about backing up my thesis when I was writing it. I had multiple copies, had it on two disks, a pen drive, a floppy even emailed it to two different emails every so often. Why couldn't I have been as paranoid about my fic?
-sigh- Oh well, life goes on and I finally dug around in my coffers (and a little begging and borrowing) and finally got a new computer. A desktop this time but wohoo what a desktop it is! It's an HP media center and I've been bugging hubby with all the things it can do. Hehe. So there is a silver-lining in this rather dark cloud.
Well that's my rather long-winded rant (excuse) for why I haven't gotten anywhere with my fics recently.
Hopefully I'll back with a new chapter!
~Lin :)
Especially when the darn thing crashes and you hadn't backed up a single god-blessed thing! The main reason for this post is to explain my rather long absence. My computer died, all my files were lost as in EVERYTHING. I was working on a chapter of Lost Gods, but that is tragically gone, I'll have to go from scratch and its never the same as the first, you always have a nagging feeling that what you had before was just better. I also had a size able chunk of the new chapter of Pursuit of Power. Alas, also all gone.
Kick me now for I do not know how to backup. Everyone says it too, backup your files, back it up constantly, never ending this task of backing up and yet I didn't listen. Though mind you I was paranoid about backing up my thesis when I was writing it. I had multiple copies, had it on two disks, a pen drive, a floppy even emailed it to two different emails every so often. Why couldn't I have been as paranoid about my fic?
-sigh- Oh well, life goes on and I finally dug around in my coffers (and a little begging and borrowing) and finally got a new computer. A desktop this time but wohoo what a desktop it is! It's an HP media center and I've been bugging hubby with all the things it can do. Hehe. So there is a silver-lining in this rather dark cloud.
Well that's my rather long-winded rant (excuse) for why I haven't gotten anywhere with my fics recently.
Hopefully I'll back with a new chapter!
~Lin :)