More Meeping and a Question

The screen on my laptop just went wonky. We took it to the Genius bar and they say it needs a new display. Which they don't have. The display should be in with five days and then if I leave it with them overnight . . .

Okay, my screen is WRIGGLING. And they're not going to be able to fix it for A WEEK???

Pardon me, I had to go lie down for a minute.

So I bought an iMac. I blame Lani. Alastair's trying to set it up and transfer over all the files but since the laptop's hard drive is also doing something wonky, he's having to do it by hand. So we've got that going for us. No seriously, I owe him big but it may be awhile before I have a computer full time again. I blame myself for the laptop's meltdown. I've had it over three years and I think I've turned it off maybe half a dozen times in all that time. It probably just needs a vacation. But I will be back shortly.

In the meantime, I need a disease for a character. She'll have had some kind of wonky medical test, and the doctor has told her that it could turn into something else down the road, but not to worry about it now, and even if she does develop whatever it is, it's easily treated by some kind of donor from her family (not a kidney, something simpler). But she's a fixer, she plans everything out, and she has no family: her deceased mother was an only child so that side of the family is gone and she doesn't know who her father is. Which is why she decides to find out who her father is . . . . I was going to give her polycythemia vera, but you do actually have to go in for treatments for that and while it can turn into leukemia, I'm not sure family members can do anything to help that. No, I haven't researched this yet. It's a miracle I'm posting on Argh. Computer troubles, remember? Find me a nice, non-gruesome medical problem; it's just to get her started on her father hunt and I don't want it to eat the rest of the book with fear and loathing.

Thank you.

Also, MY COMPUTER IS SICK. Meep.