Arrrghhhh!

[agilebrit]

I dropped my PalmPilot the other day. Didn't think much of it at the time; the thing gets dropped all the time. But I went to turn it on yesterday, and NOTHING HAPPENED. Opened it up, nothing visibly wrong with it...finally, as a last resort, put new batteries in. And it booted up as though it had never been used before.

Now, this wouldn't be a problem, *IF* I'd regularly backed the thing up like I should have. Unfortunately, this incarnation of my Pilot has never been backed up. And therefore, every last scrap of information I had in it, all my addresses and phone numbers, my entire "book want list," all the pictures I've taken of animals I can't readily identify by just looking at them--it's all gone. So, now I'm going to have to reconstitute all that information somehow. *bangs head on keyboard*

In other news, I signed up for the NaNoWriMo. Which means that, during the month of November, I'm going to have to write an average of nearly 1,700 words a day, in an original novel. I have a concept. I have characters. What I don't have is plot or theme. Plot-wise, I thought about having a vampire that turns children on purpose as a kink, but...ew, you know? I mean, that's really dark, and while I'm not opposed to "dark" per se, I'm not sure I can pull that level of it off. Pedophiles get me in a very visceral place (more so now that I'm a parent myself than it did before we had Da Boy)...and I'm shaking just thinking about it. So, no. *shudders*

And, dude. I just got a really amazing review for "Aftermath. Honestly, it's reviews like this that keep me writing. To know that I've been able to convey what I did, to a guy like that, who's actually lived it...well, it touches me more than I can say. He just made my whole week.

Comments

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Never backed up?

Never?

You have lost all possible sympathy. Seriously.

:: points at you and laughs::

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

*pokes you and then huggggssss*

owie on all the lost info!

Yayyys for another friend into NaNoWriMo!!!

hmmms sounds to me like you need a arc plot something to keep the darkness at bay... Some kind of hope or good set up maybe.

and yayyys for good reviews!!!

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

::sticks tongue out::

*sigh* No, never. Never installed the software in this computer to do it with, and of course, the old computer has since crashed.

I am so screwed.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

For me, I always thought of a Palm as a computer's prehensile tail -- a useful addition but not it's own thing. Then again, I used the web thing to keep homework assignments on my Palm because I knew checking the web for them would suck my mind, and I put books and such on it. My work iPaq is much closer to a full and independant platform.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I generally use mine as a repository for my booklist. The books I already *have* will be easy to re-input (in a manner of speaking; lots of typing *ugh*). But the books I wanted are another matter.

Heh. It might be time for a new Palm anyway. Mine is an old IIIe, which does what I want it to do...but a new one would probably be in color and have a lithium battery.