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So the first half of my absence was due to depression kickin me right in the ass. Repeatedly. And not letting me get back up. But had I not run into TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, I would have been back much....MUCH sooner than now.

And by technical difficulties, I mean literal....technical difficulties. On Febuary 1st, my computer, having been in sleep mode the night prior, decided it wouldn’t turn on. 

...Uh, correction. The TOWER powered on, but the monitor and cintiq would not. Several soft and hard reboots later and I was on the phone with the pc company (Cybertron PC)’s support team. 

Now, I’d been having plenty of trouble before this even happened. From blue screens with “thread stuck in device driver” errors to the occasional refusal to wake from sleep mode and having to be rebooted, I was considering having the damn thing shipped off to Cybertron to get it’s graphics card replaced and maybe even upgraded. Because I knew perfectly well that the graphics card was to blame for all my troubles. 

I only know THIS because of my PREVIOUS computer, (from the inept CyberPOWER PC company) which gave me bluescreen after bluescreen of a whole RAINBOW’S pickings of error codes. I got no help from Cyberpower PC on any of that, despite my asking.

Anyways, yes, I had my baby shipped off via UPS all the way from the North-East Coast to KANSAS. So there I was, without a computer, for a whole goddamn month.

Truthfully, I did have my mother’s computer to use whenever she didn’t care (which she often didn’t) and I do still have my oldest computer in the house-- which works, but is a slow, senile old thing that lags in typing and takes 20 minutes to an hour to open one application.

So, yeah. I was stuck without for the most part.

On the bright side, this baby’s warranty still has yet to expire, so all I had to pay for is the shipping, the labor, and the difference for the graphics card upgrade, which comes out to about 300 dollars. Which is much better than what it otherwise WOULD have been. And now it’s back and working beautifully. No bluescreens. ....Yet. Knock on wood.

It took me about a week to get back into the habit of socializing (which I did most of my stretches on my Alleyway Jack blog), but I think I’m ready to come back to the rp community now-- I’ve been feeling so gATdamn lonely anyways ajdkfhkjl Maybe I’ll feel able to get back into writing that comic, too.