PC failure

[dr_kromm]

A brief note to friends, colleagues, and others who may give a doodle: The hard drive on my primary PC died on March 6. While the machine is in the shop, I'm relegated to using this very old, rather basic laptop with a bad keyboard. I lack all access to my archived e-mail, I can only correspond via gmail, and I don't even have access to a copy of Word.* I am therefore not very available online . . . or in real life, as I dicker with shops and eventually spend many days rebuilding my work environment. If it's desperately important that you get in touch, try the phone.

Thanks for your patience!

* Those of you who deal with me professionally shouldn't worry: all drafts and notes on drafts are backed up. Nothing valuable was lost except for my time.

Comments

[dr-kromm.livejournal.com]

It probably has to do with being a full-time telecommuter: I'd be willing to wager that the PC on my desk sees more uptime and more read/write operations in a year than the average user's computer experiences over its lifetime. I don't have or use a car to get to work, so I most likely also have the best luck with cars of anyone you know. :) It averages out.