I Did it AGAIN

Yes, that's right, I did it again.  I killed yet another computer.  Yes, I REALLY AM THAT AWESOME.

To be fair, the Toshiba that I insisted Shawn buy for me (I liked the way the keys clacked, okay?  It sounded RIGHT) was a peice of crap from the start.  A smarter person would have turned around and replaced it when it randomly started dumping memory.  Me, I just figured out a work around which kept me going until the warranty at the store wore out.  Luckily, on Sunday, when it stopped working entirely, I called the Toshiba help line directly and the nice lady there agreed after having me try several things that the machine was, in point of fact, kaput, and I would be granted the boon of returning it to the manufacturer for repair or replacement free of charge.  I will have to pay for shipping, but frankly, that's nothing compared to the cost of a brand new laptop.

The other awesome thing is that, after "The Turkey Incident" my wiser-than-me friends turned me on to a year free with CrashPlan, which was very helpfully backing my entire system up every fifteen minutes.  So I lost exactly no data --provided I can figure out how to retrieve it when the time comes.  (But, I'm going assume that someone will help me figure that out, if nothing else, someone on a help desk somewhere.)  In the meantime I don't think there's much I need to access, though I may try to figure out if I can download my supervillain romance thing to work on today.

The other good thing is that we have a spare laptop.  It's much older and is superloaded with games, but, ta-dah!, it works in a pinch.  If I were actually on deadline for something, I would feel pretty f*cking smug right now.  As it is, all I can think is, oh, thank GOD all my fan fic is saved.  *snort*

I think, in fact, I may go and see if I can retreive a single file from CrashPlan.  I'll let you know how that goes for me!