The Demonweasel Speaks

So much for excitement and danger this NaNoWriMo. The only thing that couldn’t handle it was my computer, apparently. It crashed out on the morning of the 3rd and it was at least a week before the damage was fixed. Of course, part of that fixing was going in and having to re-install Windows, backing up and then restoring almost everything. As irritating as a re-install is, in some ways it’s kind of cathartic, just getting rid of all the old junk that you don’t need and starting relatively fresh.

Of course, I can’t get the on-board sound card to work and I forgot to back up all my fonts, but other than that it’s worked like a charm.

The real downside is that I feel like it completely took me out of the 50,000 words in a month game, which really blows. Even worse was the fact that even after the system was up and running I was all “Well, I’m out” and didn’t work on it for a couple of days, and that probably really took me out. Of course, the month is still young and I’m going to keep working on it, but damn that was a bummer.