This morning I turned on my computer for a bit of work and – it would not come on. The power light stayed on, the fan was on but the machine was cool, and nothing. Dead. It looks like the motherboard, which has long threatened to expire, might finally have died, and of course this is an unmitigated disaster since my last backup was in March and the last thing I want is to buy a new computer just now, with all the expenses around the new flat, planned travel and a wedding coming up. I was a little teary all day long, and at a loose end, and my weird new eczema clearly liked it because it seemed to go ballistic. After the lightness of Friday it seems very hard. I think I should be able to recover the data by taking out the hard disc and putting it in an enclosure, but it’ll take some days and meanwhile my foot is increasingly painful. I have at least found some potential repair shops online. And at least I don’t have imminent deadlines.
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