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I just tried to write a quick note to let everyone know that the book is going well. I’m in the end game. It’s a longer end game with the books getting so much longer, but still I can taste freedom like something sweet and clean on my tongue. Let me add that this was about where I got when the blue screen of death came up, and I got the message that my computer was in the process of dumping my physical memory. Dumping my physical memory! That can’t be good.
I hit the intercom and yelled for help. Both Darla and Jonathon didn’t quite understand me. Voices can be garbled over the intercom unless you annunciate. I guess a panicked high pitch was not conducive to being understood. So they’re both going, huh, what did you say.
I changed my message to, “I need an I.T. person up here S.T.A.T. Help!” That message they got. Jonathon came up, took the blue screen of death quite calmly, and fixed it. I lost like a word of my book file, because I save to server, to disk, whatever, religiously. Let’s hear it for good computer habits. I, of course, lost all the blog I was doing. Anyway, it’s all okay. The emergency is over, but the fact that neither Darla nor Jonathon are certain why it happened is a little unnerving. But every I.T. person I know that is honest says the same thing, sometimes bad things happen and you just don’t know exactly why. Jonathon says that all computers work better at least one or two stories up, because you can always threaten to throw them out a window. I’m not sure that actually works, but I know there are days when the thought is sort of cathartic.