Farewell, Nebuchadnezzar

[darinbradley]

Just spent the morning/early afternoon running damage control on my trusty writing/designing rig, "Nebuchadnezzar." I've had this computer for a long time, and it has (had) many warts and anomalies and other personality quirks (no functioning sound card, perpetually corrupt .dll files, pitifully under RAMmed, etc.) that I've dodged, dealt with, or

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[syrenatricksy]

Ah, yes. I had a hard drive FRY. And that's how I learned the beauty of the external hard drive. Or, should I say, beauty and necessity of an external hard drive (I lost some stuff, but not the diss, thank God and Thor!)!

[deborahlive]

Whew. My desk top has been slouching toward oblivion for a while. I've been doing all my Important Work on my laptop. I think I'll have that little back-up party today.

TGIF

If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

[selfavowedgeek]

Did you pitch yourself in the sand and yell, "You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!" as the camera panned back showing your computer towering in a lean-to ruin nearby?

[roxana]

Of course, we should not forget my brother's valiant over-the-phone efforts at salvaging your data. Without him, all would have been lost.

A medal is in order.

[markteppo]

Ah, all the better that I sent you something in the mail, mid-week. Just in time for you to be wondering what to do with yourself.

Not that I had fore-knowledge, of course. Just good timing. Sux0r, though. F'ing computers always know.