Projected Projects > "Plan B"

*sigh* I've been having a bitch of a time computing these past two days. It began yesterday morning on Thursday around 6 a.m. when we suffered a brownout. Luckily I've my system working on an APC UPS so when the brownout occurred I had enough time working off of battery power to shutdown my system and avoid any damage in that way. But the brownout seemed to exacerbate a situation with my hard drive. I think it's dying. I've noticed something of a problem during start-up that I thought wasn't much of anything, for about the past two weeks. But now it seems to be an indication that my hard drive is looking to give out soon. I was completely offline yesterday and most of today because of it. I had access to the Net thanks to Narcissus, but he wasn't fully charged so I had to use him sparingly. Thankfully my brother stopped by tonight and let me borrow his AC adapter/charger... so if worse comes to worse and my hard drive does die out, I'll still have access to the Net via my iPod touch. But the shitty thing about that, as any touch owner will know, is that it's a neutered version of the Net thanks to the touch's inability to play most Flash content and some javascript issues. The main gripe I have is not being able to post from Blogger on the touch. I would've made my post yesterday, as usual, but I had no way to do so. :(

So the next few days or couple of weeks are going to be interesting. My hard drive is going to die. It's inevitable. The writing's on the wall. I've been through this before, more times than I would like, so I know the signs... it's only a matter of time. Thankfully I've made all the truly critical back-ups I need to make. The next few days will be about backing up the minor things that'll make transitioning to a new system a bit easier. It looks like I'll be working off a start-up disk on an external hard drive once the internal one gives out. So I'm gonna try and set that up as soon as possible. Anyway, the point of all this is that I probably won't be making my daily posts on the Dead Letter Room... but that doesn't mean I'll be abandoning the project. I'm gonna do what I can to keep up. I'm gonna blog as usual, I just won't be able to upload anything for days at a time... maybe. I'm not sure. Maybe there won't be an interruption. And maybe there will... I just don't know. But I'm sooo close to the finish line that there's no way I'm gonna give up on this year-long experiment. I gotta keep going. I'm not gonna let a little thing ( :P ) like this get in the way of its completion. But it's gonna be a little shaky. ;) Here's hoping all goes well. :)


DS333, adapting.