My replacement hard drive came in today, so I’m spending the afternoon trying to move back into my old computer (which really could be considered my new computer except that it’s old — think of it as the shell of a house I’ve completely gutted and am now trying to rebuild more or less as it was but maybe with a few improvements).<\/p>\n
As a minor sop to all the trouble this has caused, I got an extra 6Gb of hard drive out of the transaction.<\/p>\n
I just hope this is the last time for while.<\/p>\n
Back-up early … back-up often!<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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