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.)

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

If the computer is acting like it has no power, the hard drive is most likely fine. In over twenty years of fixing computers problems for a living, I don't think I've ever seen a power supply take a hard drive with it when it died. I see power supplies take out mother boards once in a while though.