Wed. Dec. 14, 2022: Well, This is a Problem

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Waning Moon

Chiron, Uranus, Mars Retrograde

Sunny and cold

You may not hear much from me the next few days. My computer crashed (after a day of chaos).

I have a ton of deadlines.

I’d hoped to take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s. I might have to take off most of next week.

First of all, I ran a bunch of errands in the morning and got the cards mailed. On the way back, I stopped at the Laundromat and put in three loads of laundry. Two loads went through just fine. The third machine cut out half way through and didn’t unlock the door to let me get at my wet clothes.

I got in touch with the company, and they sent a tech over. The machine spontaneously spit out the dripping clothes. We got them moved to another machine, and they paid for the new wash and also the extra dry. The machines started acting possessed anyway, and for a few minutes, it sounded like we were a spaceship preparing for takeoff. There were quite a few people there by then, and we were all kind of freaked out, but laughing.

I stayed in the car most of the time, because too many people in too small a space, and me the only one masking. Nope.

Drove home the groceries and one set of laundry; came back and picked up the other.

What should have taken an hour and a half took 4 hours.

Then, the computer kept crashing. I managed to fill out a residency application, but as I worked on the script coverage, the laptop crashed and wouldn’t come up. It just said “Your PC needs repair” and that it couldn’t access the operating system.

The machine is under warranty, but I doubt it will be honored (there are 2 more years on the warranty, and I even found it). I found a local repair place that has a good reputation (and a website, not a FB page), so that will be my backup.

Of course, I have script coverages.

I managed to read on my tablet last night — 6 scripts. I handwrote the notes. I pulled out my old Macbook, which can’t go online, but the word processing works. I typed up the coverages.

The plan is to go to the library and upload everything, then come home, read the rest of the scripts for the week and finish a book review, write them up on the old Macbook, and go back to the library tomorrow.

Another storm comes in tomorrow night, lasting until Saturday morning. So even if the warranty is honored, I can’t get the computer anywhere until Monday.

I’m wondering if I can rent one for a week or two while mine is repaired. I have a feeling it needs a new hard drive; if that’s the case, I’ll see how much more it costs to get a bigger hard drive.

Fortunately, about 90% is backed up on USB and external hard drive. With Mercury going retrograde on the 29th (yes, we’re in the shadow, SHUT UP), I was going to back it all up again right after Christmas. So I won’t have lost too much, and all the writing is on flash drive anyway, as well as external.

But it’s more running around, it meant I couldn’t bake or deliver cookies, and it’s a lot of pressure in the next 48 hours.

Breathe, right?

But I might not be posting here again until next week.

If not, peace, my friends.

(And buy my books, my topic workbooks, and read the serial, please)!