Sometime on Sunday, I became aware that when Tim's hard drive crashed on Thursday that I also lost stuff. What I lost were the final, polished versions of all my fiction.

I had only a small, sobbing breakdown, honest.

See, we can't quite get my cranky laptop to load the drivers for the printer, so when I need to print something out to mail it, I email it to Tim. Except that alot of times it changes after that. I edit out the reference to underage sex. I fix that rather embarrassing phrasing I'd never noticed until now. I add another character to give the main character's storyline more resonance. That sort of thing.

So, it wasn't a huge deal, except that it's a lot of work to re-revise your entire salable ficiton collection. Not as much work as it would be for you prolific motherfuckers (pardon my french), but still. Not a fun prospect.

Today, I am calmer. I am at work. I do an idle search on my email at work and I find that I am not a complete moron -- that at some point in the past I thought to send myself final versions of several of my stories. I don't remember doing this, but I cried with happiness when I found the final of WWW12. I am so relieved and happy!

I spent some time last night backing up my laptop at home, of course. How could I not? I'm regretting ignoring the salesman's advice when I bought my 100 MB zip drive, though. Yes, yes, I obviously should have bought the 250 MB version that had just come out, but I was young(er) and had no clue about the rapid growth of computer programs. It took me an hour to delete enough email to get my mailboxes on one zipdisc. Most of it was spam, of course, because not only am I a packrat but my Eudora crashes and/ or re-downloads stuff and I can never ferret out all the spam in my inbox. I still haven't, but at least I got enough of it out so I could easily backup Eudora.

Tonight, we play with the Yahoo! briefcase on the DSL connection.

Oh, yeah, I have DSL! Whoot! This makes me so very happy.

You know what else makes me happy? A visit from Jenn. But that, my dears, is another journal entry.