Musings

Compewder Craptastica

I’m not seeking radio silence on the blog, but have been working on reviewing the edits for the manuscript and adding the necessary revisions, and selecting, editing, and captioning the almost 500 images for Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of Henry O. Studley.  It is way less glamorous than it sounds.

I normally back up  everything at the end of the day, but  for some reason I had not done that since Saturday.  So of course this morning was the moment my laptop fried.  I mean sparks and all as I plugged in the printer USB cable.  The geeks are trying to copy the hard disk, provided it did not get damaged. I will get their verdict in the morning.  So, I am consolidating and duplicating files by the boatload using my indestructible but antique Dell 1525 with Windows Vista(!) and my three external hard drives (we do not have the connectivity required for Cloud backup).

At worst I will have to reconstruct three days worth of work.  At best it will all be there.  Either way I need a new laptop. It will not be another Compaq/HP.

Until everything gets resolved I will be a bit quiet.

Sigh.