Postby Transwarp » Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:18 am
Just got back from ten days of R&R with the family in India. My wife's brother-in-law lives in New Delhi (he works for Lockheed-Martin as a liaison with the Indian airforce), so we stayed at his place.
On the positive side, we saw some great sights (National Museum, Red Fort, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Lotus Temple, Cows, monkeys and stray dogs. And the insane Delhi traffic. I even got some writing done (about a page and a half of a scene that had been giving me trouble. After a couple of aborted attempts that I wasn't very happy with, I finally hit on the right POV and sequence of events).
On the negative side, the hard drive in my netbook crashed (i think it was toasted by a power fluctuation), and I lost the above-referenced page and a half. My brother-in-law had an old netbook that he wasn't using, and I harvested the hard drive from that (only 160 GB vs. the 250 GB that crashed, but you know what they say about beggers and choosers). I reformatted and installed linux on it and I'm up and running again, but losing that page and a half is demoralizing.
Thankfully I didn't lose a lot of other files or data, but it's still a major inconvenience. I had my system set up just the way I like it (applications and updates and system settings), but now everything is back to the defaults. I'm getting it set back up, but it's slow going, and in the meantime I'm not writing. Aaargh!
Nothing's ever easy... <sigh>
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.