The Blue Screen of Death

I may be MIA for a while. Melusine crashed without warning this afternoon, and the techs at Best Buy said it was showing the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, which means it is either a serious hardware problem or a serious one with the operating system. In either case, I will lose everything on it—everything. (Aside from my current chapter, which will have to be retyped on Demon Spawn, I did save the rest of Ransom to a flash drive, thankfully, but only the novel itself.) In addition to all my work, the e-mails are doomed, too. And I don’t know when I’ll have it back. I do have the back-up desk-top, but a back-up named Demon Spawn does not inspire a lot of confidence. Demon Spawn has had a vacation for the past six months, as I’ve been using Melusine exclusively, and I am sure he is going to make me pay for that neglect. Even worse, I’ve gotten so used to Windows 7 and Microsoft Word 2010 that going back to XP and Word 2003 will be taking a huge step backward. So if I am not around much, at least you all will know why.