Duct Tape and a Prayer

So, yesterday my laptop’s hard drive decided it didn’t want to work anymore. My poor MacBook booted up to the dreaded question-mark folder, and just like that all my files and applications were gone. (I maintain hope, but nothing I’ve tried so far has worked.)

My desktop computer won’t run World of Warcraft for anything like a reasonable amount of time before crashing completely. Either it’ll reboot itself, it’ll shut down, or – most common – it’ll simply lock up completely and refuse to do anything until I reboot it. I have a suspicion that this is because I have a 400W power supply running about 500W of components (the DVD player just flat-out won’t work anymore), but I can’t afford to replace the power supply. On the other hand, it might be a video-card issue, given that things seemed to work okay for about a year with this computer and then all of a sudden stopped working, and also because it only hangs up when I try to do graphics-intensive things with it, like play games.

Either way, though, I functionally have no access to World of Warcraft for now, so I’ll be blogging in the dark, so to speak.

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