After much horror and at least three disasters
(You try moving 1300 miles in two days!) I was all set to boot up my computer on November 28th and deliver my FINISHED (62,377 words) novel to the website... at which point my very old Mac decided that it didn't like its new home, started to smoke, and threw up monitor screen shards.
The harddrive was trashed, all my files destroyed, and the sparks caught a curtain on fire. That caused all my floppies to warp from the heat, so my backup waas gone, too.
I'm now reduced to using a Windows PC (Yecchh!) to write this.
Sympathy appreciated, but hey. S*** happens.
The GOOD news is that my BRAND NEW G5 Mac, with 360 Gb of harddrive space, Flatscreen monitor, a DvD -R/CD R + RW unit, and a 250 Meg zip drive backup system is on order
, paid in full thanks to the insurance
, and should be here in time for Christmas!
(Yaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!)
Oh, and I love the new job. Though it is a bit strange to be only one of three male teachers in a school whose student population is entirely female...