I spent a couple of hours earlier this afternoon working on a new look for this site, and almost had it done, but when I turned on my Powerbook after class, disaster struck. I couldn’t click on anything, and when I rebooted, I got weird artifacts (and two shadow docks up at the top of the screen) and was forced to reboot again, and ever since then the display has been black as death. Lesson learned: if you’re not backing up regularly, you dang well better start now and DON’T WAIT! I kept meaning to do so, but now it’s too late. ~sigh~ I still don’t know what on earth I’m going to do, since I don’t have the money to get it fixed (and my credit card debt is already ugly), and I certainly don’t have the money to buy a new one. Hopefully I’ll be able to boot it up in target disk mode and save all the data. If not, that would be very, very, very bad.
On the bright side, it’s in times like these that I realize just how dependent I am on my computer. And I see now that there is life outside of the computer. Besides, I can still e-mail and blog from school computers, and with my flash drive I can keep up with papers and stuff like that. I guess I’ll have to start writing in my journal on paper… (Again, not the end of the world. :)) And I suppose I can still use school computers to do Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign stuff. But it’s such a pain. Well, I’m crossing my fingers and hoping that this is just a temporary setback and that I’ll be able to get back up to speed ASAP. After being sick for two weeks (and I’m still sick! ~sigh~), having my computer get sick too leaves a rotten feeling in my gut. Maybe it caught it from me…
Ooh, I tried pressing the control key, command key, and power button (as per the Apple instructions) and I got the apple! Oh, rats, shortly after the ching it drew the black splotches all over and said, “You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.” In French and German and Japanese, too. ~sigh~
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