#computer failure

I am physically ill feeling about it all. My work, my small barely growing business, my writings, my animations, and everything else is on that thing and I’m looking at the best outcome being getting it back a month from now without garuntee of any of my files or programs being salvaged from it. This includes abandonware and other programs I use for things that aren’t easy or impossible to restore.

I have not been in a pleasant mood or health about it all for the past four days. No one can figure out why it’s crashing hard, and every single check has turned up green but it’s still failing.

It sucks even harder when I’m in the middle of a large commission and I can’t move forward without my laptop. I don’t have enough money to replace it. I was trying to save up cash via commissions for this kinda stuff but that’s gone now. I will not be opening up any gofundme or patreon or whatever asking for donations, I just wanted to tell everyone the kind of bind I’m in and that it really really sucks.

I’m trying to stay positive about this but reality makes it hard to do so. I’m not in the best place currently. Mostly just asking folks to understand and stuff. Well um, yeah that’s about it. I know everyone’s just gonna scroll past this anyways or forget about it in like five minutes after reading.

That being said, not posting scanned art for the foreseeable future. May also hesitate on taking new commissions for the same reason until I get a prognosis. (I like to scan in my originals before shipping of course)

Computer Failure Plagued Target Registers #Target #TargetDown

Customer complaints were rising as the Retailer Registers go down!

Target’s registers are functioning again after a recent Computer failure that caused the Retail Giant’s system to crash, with it rose, Customer Furor. Target released a statement regarding the recent outage:

https://twitter.com/Target/status/1139973031550423041

A Business Correspondent for NPR named Alina Selyukhtoo…

The last couple weeks have been about workstation upgrades, but the other day I hit a snag. My Corsair closed loop liquid cooler seemed to be failing, so I went to install an air cooler that I had in storage, and my thermal paste tube was all clumpy and gloopy (yeah I know some technical terminology I’ve got there), which technically could work I guess, but I bought new thermal paste just in case, and due to the power of Amazon Prime I got my new thermal paste this morning (I love the included 2-day shipping). So in between going to see Captain Marvel (which was good, contrary to some of the reviews I have seen) I have been working on removing the liquid cooler (the cables were all wrapped up and so I had to undo all of my cable management to get the liquid cooler out) to replace it with the air cooler. This is the 2nd time the Corsair liquid cooler has failed. The first failure occurred in January 2017, and I ended up getting it replaced by Amazon and not Corsair (because Corsair made it so hard to get warranty service … you can read about that here: http://macswitch.tumblr.com/post/156380678633/a-tail-of-two-warranties, obviously I am glad I’m a Prime customer). This time I just decided to switch it out, and not worry about the warranty service.

Yes, most unfortunate.

Very unfortunate.

My computer for all intents and purposes is now only useful as a decorative item.

It’ll be until March (knocks on wooden table this borrowed laptop is resting on) when I can purchase another one.

All my newer pictures are gone...

I still have the projects and I could take pictures of them again I remind myself, but...I just look at that traitorous--machine and something inside me just deflates. I’m still making things with yarn. I’m currently working on a dragon neck scarf from the book Crochet Ever After.

Also, Thanksgiving is almost here so there’s groceries to buy, food to make, and my youngest sister will be coming home from college/uni!

I’m thinking of doing a compilation picture of the projects I have done since my last update. (Why, laptop, why?!) I usually save up a few projects to post together and the crash and burn my laptop decided to engage in happened just as I was writing up the post. (How could you!)

Anyway, Happy Holidays everyone! I plan to eat a lot of food (not just sweets) and laze Thanksgiving day away so I can survive the crowd that will hit our store the following day. Good gravy.

1. Karyn would kill someone. Or their whole system, because no way that kind of shit just happens to her. She’s too good for that; therefore someone has to pay.

2. Alice wants to know if shooting computers is allowed.

3. Iain just wants it to work, and he doesn’t even know if he did something or if it was the computer’s fault.

4. Somebody get Charleston away from the computer. Now.

5. Stephanie is going to try and cheat and use magic to recover it. Technomancy isn’t her specialty, but she’s game to try. Might set the computer on fire, by accident, though.

6. Zaria always has back-ups. She fills her reports out by hand, scans them in, types notes if required, and often voice-records her autopsies for Alice anyways. She’s prepared. Annoyed, but prepared.

7. Tom calls Karyn. He’s not about to go messing around with computers when he has her.

8. Leo sees this as evidence that he shouldn’t be the one filling out important information on a computer. (He also learns from it and starts saving everything in three places.)

9. Tadea growls, curses, and then gets back to redoing whatever it was that she lost, albeit hitting the keys with more force than required.

10. Iro doesn’t do her own work on the computer. And darling, if you break it, you had better fix it. Disappointing her is hazardous to your health.

11. Aelius is often at war with his computer. It’ll take him a bit to figure out it’s not coming back.

12. Ryder doesn’t use computers. But if something like this did happen, expect fireballs and piles of ashes.

13. Sabriel is going to curse, make herself a tea, and then get back to work. She doesn’t have the luxury to be upset about it for long.

14. Michael would see this as evidence that technology is evil, and refuse to go anywhere near it.