My cat likes to pretend she's a seatbelt when I use my laptop computer. Today, when the phone rang and I tried to get up to answer it, some combination of movements ended up with my laptop crashing to the floor... and crashing whenever I try to run any useful software.

I'm current working on trying to copy as much as-yet-un-backed-up data as I can to my external hard-drive (which is a good idea anyway). If I can't figure out what the problem is and fix it... I'm probably going to have to funnel all my discretionary money towards a replacement. My phone just doesn't. It it for any serious computing.

This also means that outside any commitments I've already made, I'm unlikely to do any commissioning for the foreseeable future.


Update: Took it in to the shop. The good news is that it looks like they'll be able to save my data, which as you might guess from my username, makes me a happy data pack-rat. No word yet on the rest of the machine.