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Got eight pages today. The most I’ve gotten in about a week. I am happy with the eight pages, but I was hoping to bridge to the next scene since I seem to have such trouble bridging scenes in the last part of this book. But as has happened several times with THE HARLEQUIN my computer had other ideas. Jon has no idea why it’s done it’s latest flaky thing, but it’s reformatted the entire file, all the book. It did this once before. I swear if he gets it back to the way it was, I’m making a copy and sending it to New York to my publisher for safe keeping. Part of the concern is the great disc crash when DRIVE SAVERS had to save our cookies. But also, as I’ve mentioned several times in the blog, the computer has been acting flaky off and on during the entire writing of this book. I think my main computer is just nearing the end of it’s bug free life. I’d said weeks, or months, ago that when I finish this book the computer will retire and I’ll have to get a new one, but the problem today has just highlighted it. The computer actually did this exact reformat crap once before during this book. Jon managed to monkey it back into shape, but neither of us can remember how he did it. Frankly, most tech people will admit that sometimes they don’t know why something breaks, or why it starts working again. Sometimes computers just do stuff. Any tech person who denies that is either new to the job, or like some doctors, doesn’t want to admit that they don’t understand everything about their job. Computers are mysterious things, or can be. I’d just like them to be a little less mysterious until I finish the final fight scene.