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maaruSo I spent the last two weeks typing up a Weiss fanfic (for a christmas exchange) while re-organizing my stuff after the JLPT insanity. This week, however, the fanfic gods decided to use me as target practice:
* Monday morning: My 8-year old laptop finally bit the dust. Well, not quite. See, it made a funny buzzing sound, then the backlight burnt out. So she's still actually working, but to see anything, I'd need a flashlight held against the screen in an strange angle. Spent the rest of the day transferring everything onto my Mom's Acer desktop.
* Thursday morning: I declare the fanfic finished. My beta, Riisha, is busy with work, so I decide to fiddle with the formatting using LJ. LJ refused to load for me all day, so by afternoon, I give up and decide to continue later. I turn off the desktop.
*Thursday evening: My mom wants to use Facebook, but the computer won't turn on. I call Riisha in a panic.
*Friday morning: Computer turns on, but formats itself. FUCK.
Important stuff lost:
* My latest CV and resume updates
* Thesis files. Old, but still precious to me.
* Pictures, like graduation and anniversaries.
* Ichihime doujin translation project files
* AB doujin project files
* Mononoke doujin script files
* Drawing scans
* Fanfic stuff
*Friday late morning: I try to recover files, most of it is intact except for TWO things: My copy of ACC, and the fanfic (I could only recover something corrupted with gibberish). THEN the computer dies.
* THEN, after I'm already shaking with frustration, and attempting to re-write fanfic from memory on a notebook, the POWER goes out. NOOOOOO
*Friday afternoon: Power's back on, and I'm back trying to recover everything. Most decrypting methods I find don't work. :S DVD drive refuses to read CDs, so I can't re-install MS Office. Whyyyyy
*Saturday morning: Downloading OpenOffice as alternative. Hopefully it decrypts, or I'll be typing the fanfic from memory (50% of it has a backup online, though). Meanwhile, I need to go accompany my mom for Christmas shopping and looking for a wedding gift. O__O Must. Persevere.
I'll be back, fanfic gods! *shakes fist*
* Monday morning: My 8-year old laptop finally bit the dust. Well, not quite. See, it made a funny buzzing sound, then the backlight burnt out. So she's still actually working, but to see anything, I'd need a flashlight held against the screen in an strange angle. Spent the rest of the day transferring everything onto my Mom's Acer desktop.
* Thursday morning: I declare the fanfic finished. My beta, Riisha, is busy with work, so I decide to fiddle with the formatting using LJ. LJ refused to load for me all day, so by afternoon, I give up and decide to continue later. I turn off the desktop.
*Thursday evening: My mom wants to use Facebook, but the computer won't turn on. I call Riisha in a panic.
*Friday morning: Computer turns on, but formats itself. FUCK.
Important stuff lost:
* My latest CV and resume updates
* Thesis files. Old, but still precious to me.
* Pictures, like graduation and anniversaries.
* Ichihime doujin translation project files
* AB doujin project files
* Mononoke doujin script files
* Drawing scans
* Fanfic stuff
*Friday late morning: I try to recover files, most of it is intact except for TWO things: My copy of ACC, and the fanfic (I could only recover something corrupted with gibberish). THEN the computer dies.
* THEN, after I'm already shaking with frustration, and attempting to re-write fanfic from memory on a notebook, the POWER goes out. NOOOOOO
*Friday afternoon: Power's back on, and I'm back trying to recover everything. Most decrypting methods I find don't work. :S DVD drive refuses to read CDs, so I can't re-install MS Office. Whyyyyy
*Saturday morning: Downloading OpenOffice as alternative. Hopefully it decrypts, or I'll be typing the fanfic from memory (50% of it has a backup online, though). Meanwhile, I need to go accompany my mom for Christmas shopping and looking for a wedding gift. O__O Must. Persevere.
I'll be back, fanfic gods! *shakes fist*
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Date: 2010-12-18 02:12 am (UTC)G-God, I've only ever kept notes of ONE of my fanfics on paper, and I even stopped doing that after a while. After having some coworkers read one of my (intentionally awful) fics out loud, I developed a real aversion to it. But I guess it comes in handy!