Well I wrecked the El Camino, and it woulda been DWI

[rolanni]

So this morning, with a snap! heard through the house, Jack the Giant Killer, the venerable Windows XP desktop, left this mortal realm.  I'm hoping this is a temporary death and that Jack can be revived with the installation of a new power supply, and that the neutrinos escaping from the explosion of what is now certainly the Former Power Supply didn't nuke the hard drive.

It would be. . .mildly inconvenient if I lost the hard drive, most of the important stuff is backed up.  And the Book is Safe -- I apologize to the writers reading here, I should have said that first.

If Jack is truly lost to us, I'll be hooking Ox up to the big screen and the Funny Looking Keyboard.  I do NOT have the budget for a new desktop this year.  Gah.

For now, I'm writing on the Mencken Table via Ox, from which I will sporadically be available to the internets.

In the meantime, having done the day's murder, I have chores to do.

Everybody stay safe.

(The heading comes from Rachel's Song, by James McMurtry.  Here's your link.)

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[margotinez.livejournal.com]

CORRECTION TO LAST PARA ABOVE:

Wells Fargo offered a zero percent interest loan for 15 months, but requires a 3% up-front fee. If you are not paid off after 15 months, it goes to 18%. Still a good deal.
Schools Credit Union offers a 15 month loan, interest rate 2% for the first 6 months, then goes to 8 %. Goes up quite a bit after 15 months, so the secret is to pay it off in 15 months.
Both of these were available in January to pay off a specific credit card. I'm in California. Hope this helps someone.