So load up and keep marching; the push is on.

So the new motherboard has been purchased and is winging its way here, but really, I am to be damned for a traitor and a gadabout if I just sit around for another week and wait for it to show up. So yesterday after work I made epic journey to half the computer parts stores in the downtown to score an external hard drive enclosure. And eventually did. And stuck my hard drive in it, and then fiddled a lot with Outlook then and this morning and this afternoon (including one tech support call), and the upshot is that pretty much everything important that was on that hard drive is now on this laptop and I WIN.

(Yeah. It still ate my whole week. Shush.)

I'm pretty sure the Ideomancer staff aren't as happy about this, since we managed to have a major computer breakdown and still not miss slush day, but hey. :)

Upshot:

--Homicide alert downgraded to yellow;
--Anything you're expecting from me is back to "pending";

...and anyone writery who has time to read a draft of "Stay," aka 9k of wendigo-filled crunch with an end that's deeply dubious, drop me a line? :)