Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

I am cursed. Simply cur

-sed.

That's as far as I got when the keyboard stopped responding. It's plugged in. It lights up. It doesn't type anything. That was the main computer. That was supposed to be the backup after my own computer died. DH is operating on my laptop, because it has stopped working. Despite the many dead laptops we keep around for spare parts, he fears that this is a more fundamental issue than switching out the hard drive for another one. Like, the things that connect the motherboard and chip and CPU and whatever else are just wearing out. We'd put the new motherboard back in, only that's what was freezing up and crashing before, which is why we took it out.

At least we backed things up yesterday. But I really wish I'd had a chance to back up the chapter I revised today before the whole thing went up in smoke.

If I ever, ever, EVER earn any money from this writing thing (if I can find a computer that will work at all to finish anything), I am buying a brand-new laptop with a warranty,  so someone else can be responsible if/when it breaks.

I just don't know why I'm not allowed to have a working tool. Is writing so bad? Is looking for a house on line so bad? ^%*&^%&^%&^$%*#$#*!!!

the %^((* laptop

DH says it's "only" a mechanical issue, ie, the case is starting to fall apart (the edge by the keyboard has snapped), which makes the thing slightly unstable and pulls apart connections sometimes. So the solution is to um, bend it around when it starts acting up. Yeah, anyway. I'm going to have to back up like I've got some kind of compulsive disorder.

Anyway, it's working again, but I'm now the one crashing. I hope everyone has a nice Memorial Day (I only recently realized that's why LJ and Verla's and my crit group and basically everyone I know in the US is on silence today).