The Whitechapel Project

So, last week I recorded the Q&A episode with Rob Justice of the BearSwarm podcast. I had fully intended to edit it today and post it, and start writing Whitechapel this week.

Last night, the main laptop I use for work and recording started displaying problems with the power cord and battery. I spent all of last night getting everything onto my netbook. It was irritating, but not a huge deal, because the netbook was powerful enough to handle it all (even if it was a touch slow here and there).

A couple of hours ago, I found out that there’s a huge crack on my screen. I have no idea how it got there, but nearly a quarter of my screen is now gone. I talked it over with my family, and we decided that I needed to get a new laptop. That done, I opened up the netbook to see if I could get my files off of it and start the process.

In booting it up, the netbook now refuses to accept that my copy of Windows 7 is genuine (even though I paid for it separately from the computer). I’m not sure how long that will last, but it’s possible that my netbook might just stop working at any point.

So I have no idea what’s going to happen, but things have gone from “slightly irritating” to “trying to find solutions to mission critical work.” I had gotten things mostly caught up in my life, and then this happened, which means that I’m going to be falling behind again while I wait for the new computer to show up and then get it back to the shape I need it in (the usual dance of transferring files and installing new software). At this point, that’ll probably be early to mid June.

I’m going to try and see if I can get at least some stuff onto my wife’s old Mac Air so I can not fall too far behind, but I have no idea how well that’s going to work. I can probably get the writing done, and I might be able to get the recording done through GarageBand, but I can’t guarantee anything.