back. sort of.

I know, you’ve been dying to know where I’ve been–or beening to know where I’ve died. Wait–that’s not right.

Well, the truth is that my hard drive died. I was able to stay online thanks to my kid’s computer but it just wasn’t the same, you know? Plus it’s a little disconcerting to try to write while someone is watching you with a “will you hurry UP?” look on their face. I was getting a little depressed.

So I borrowed the money to get a new drive–and then borrowed some more because it wasn’t quite enough to cover the nsf charges at the bank after I made a slight mistake–and carted the thing home yesterday. I’ve spent the better part of the past 24 hours restoring programs and trying to get things back the way they were, but of course that’s impossible because I now have XP installed. Not sure I like it, frankly.

I thought my important files were all backed up, but I was wrong. Most are okay, but a few are not. And I just discovered another loss: dozens of fonts that I downloaded, hour after hour, from a site whose url I can’t remember.

They were such nice fonts.