The Book of the Shadows

Hot damn is it annoying to go through so much bad news all at once. I'll start by making an apology.

So I have a little housekeeping to do today. It'll be a brief post this last week of posts for the year 2013.

Okay, I meant to come back to doing full, real content posts, this week (Tuesday), but there have been a number of issues. When your backup fails, and your backups backup fails, you find yourself in a technology abyss. After weeks and months of trying to patch things up without shelling out the cash I more or less knew I'd need to for it to get back to good. It all came to a head over the Thanksgiving weekend. Basically, if you understand a little about computers, at the point where the BIOS functions/loading stops and the OS takes over, stuff stopped happening. It tried to load the OS and nothing happened. Of course, my Blu-Ray optical drive stopped playing DVDs and CDs months ago and I hoped to stick it out, but you can't run most Windows repairs without the install medium (I got the disc). It all turned out to be a futile effort in terms of rendering straightforward repairs since the system drive (an SSD) went bad, therefore being the cause of many of the problems. The S...

Very brief post today. Just a little housekeeping, not much else.