My computer died on me *laugh*

Haven’t heard back yet, but I suspect that my HD is toast.  Good news is that most of my writing was backed up either on my USB drive or online.  I still have all of Lowborn, and all of SOTM except for the changes I’ve made in the last few days.  Those changes I can easily replicate.

Some other things I have hardcopy of that I can scan back in, others I can retrieve from people who have copies, etc. etc.

Lost every single word of Barren Harvest though.  Ditto some cover images I’ve made and some other odds and ends.

That is, unless I’m wrong and it wasn’t the HD.

Once I hear back, I’ll figure out where I’m going from there.  I was planning to replace the computer with a new one at tax time anyhow, so I may just jump-start that process.  Going to build from scratch so I have upgrade capability and exactly what I want — without all the crap bundled software that gets put on “box” systems.  Also have no need for any of the peripherals like mice and keyboards.

All in all — not too horrible.  I didn’t lose mounds of stuff that I can’t replace.  Just a few annoying odds and ends here and there.

Haven’t double checked all my online space either.  So, there’s a chance that some of the stuff that I think I lost might actually be uploaded.

Anyway, just wanted to drop a line.  I shouldn’t be out of action for too long.  Worst case scenario is mid-Feb., and that’s absolutely worst case that I wait until I have my tax return in hand.  The plan is to be back up and running either on my old system or a brand new one by the weekend.