minimal damage
So this morning as I was doing my word count the computer froze. It was not the first time. But this time letting it sit didn't help: I couldn't turn it off: so I just closed the lid and went and did other things for a few hours.
When I came back the computer had not gone into sleep mode. It was hot to the touch, which I had not noticed before. This time I followed janetmk's directions for getting it to shut down -- leaning on the power button for several seconds until it gave in and shut down. Again I went away for a few hours. I came back and tried to turn the computer on. The computer noodled around for a while and then told me it couldn't turn itself on and would I allow it to go back to some mythical system restore point -- which would have been back when it was still Frank's. Not desirable though the computer promised not to change any of my personal data. I said no and it went through a recovery process that felt long but wasn't really. I called up my files.
I only lost a few hundred words. Just the tying-up bits at the end of the chapter. It could have been so much worse. Anyway, the chapter stands at 4100+ words, which together with the other chapter means I'm a bit below 15000 words -- maybe 14 or 14.5 K.
Next task: offsite backup. After that: rewrite the last bit of the chapter and on to chapter 4, in which our little prince is mistaken for a serving boy, which is not nearly as bad as being taken for a prince.
On another front, I got the dog's medicine on time again. And also paid the flood insurance.
edit: googledocs is accomplished and I have tested it and it works okay! I am backed up. Now to sleep or I won't be able to write tomorrow.
I guess i I save it to googedocs each day I can stop worrying about the laptop.
When I came back the computer had not gone into sleep mode. It was hot to the touch, which I had not noticed before. This time I followed janetmk's directions for getting it to shut down -- leaning on the power button for several seconds until it gave in and shut down. Again I went away for a few hours. I came back and tried to turn the computer on. The computer noodled around for a while and then told me it couldn't turn itself on and would I allow it to go back to some mythical system restore point -- which would have been back when it was still Frank's. Not desirable though the computer promised not to change any of my personal data. I said no and it went through a recovery process that felt long but wasn't really. I called up my files.
I only lost a few hundred words. Just the tying-up bits at the end of the chapter. It could have been so much worse. Anyway, the chapter stands at 4100+ words, which together with the other chapter means I'm a bit below 15000 words -- maybe 14 or 14.5 K.
Next task: offsite backup. After that: rewrite the last bit of the chapter and on to chapter 4, in which our little prince is mistaken for a serving boy, which is not nearly as bad as being taken for a prince.
On another front, I got the dog's medicine on time again. And also paid the flood insurance.
edit: googledocs is accomplished and I have tested it and it works okay! I am backed up. Now to sleep or I won't be able to write tomorrow.
I guess i I save it to googedocs each day I can stop worrying about the laptop.