Annoying

Ok, so my laptop might be in trouble. It's an old one that my dad used to use for work and passed on down to me, and it's there that I do most of my writing on the book. And right now it's not powering up. It's dead. Stupid Toshiba hunk of junk. I have stuff in there that I need, too, and it's trapped .... FOREVER.

Yeah, I know. It's probably not dead dead. In fact, I believe it's the power cord/adaptor/thingamabob that isn't working right. It kind of looks like the end that plugs into the laptop is somewhat askew, or bent, or just busted. That's the best case scenario, in which all I have to do is buy a new one somewhere and everything will be hunky dunky once again.

The worst case scenario is that it's fried.

Either way, I need to find a way to bust into it because there are three chapters in there that I've neglected yet to save to disk, and I'll be goddamed if I have to do them over. There are other things in there I can't replace, too. None of these things are going to be lost, even if I have to perform black magic and a human sacrifice ... they will be saved.

That's pretty tough talk for a guy who knows jack shit about actually fixing a computer.

It's my project for tomorrow.

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On the subject of annoying ...

1. Jen called yesterday and left a message. I wasn't home (and wouldn't have taken the call anyway). Hasn't called back.

2. Guin and I were just discussing my old friend/arch-nemesis Jenny M. I even navigated over to Jenny M's blog, and WOW ... I really do not like her at all. You know how sometimes you just dislike someone so much that any objectivity goes out the window? (see also: Evan) Well, that's how it is for me and her. I was there about five seconds and my skin started to crawl.

Put 1 and 2 together, and that's two bullets I've dodged in the recent past. Just think of how much worse everything *could* have been had I not.

But I still wonder what might have happened with Amy, and I probably always will.

Yeah. Think about it. For all my bitching about being alone ... there are worse alternatives.

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Tomorrow is an important Stray Bullets date. So it might be reasonable to expect some kind of interesting and/or compelling post to cover said date. No promises, but I'll see what I can do.