If I'm Quiet. . .

I ran into a little problem with my (relatively) new computer. When DH was shopping for my holiday present, he bought a laptop with a 512G hard drive. It should have been plenty of room. I don't store or stream videos on my work machine.

However, I started back into practicing cover design. I also downloaded a cheap copy of Corel Drawing for this purpose. Plus, I do keep my music on my work laptop because I use it for white noise or creating a mood while drafting.

The next thing I knew, I ran out of space. Literally. I rolled backup folders and files to portable drives. I rolled off used editorial art and photos. I double-checked that I hadn't copied a handful of movies from my old laptop to the new one. So as of right now, I've got 13.9G.

I can already tell you it's not enough to last through the rest of the year.

With DH's guidance, I open up my laptop to check if I had room for a second solid state drive. No extra slot.

*sigh*

So, I broke down and ordered a 2T SSD. Now, I need to do some surgery on my baby this weekend and move everything from the old drive to the new drive. It'll be just like last year when I shifted everything from my old laptop to the current one.

If everything goes right, I'll post on Wednesday. If it doesn't...

Well, I'll still post. I've already updated the battery and bought a mouse for the old laptop. The touchpad no longer works and needs to be replaced. However, it was cheaper to purchase the new mouse. But the point is that I've got a functional backup if anything goes wrong.

If I'm successful with this project, Baby Blue is next on the list for a harddrive upgrade!

Wish me luck!

Back to Writing

Last night was the first night I worked on a wip in nearly a week. I hate missing days for writing, but moving to the new laptop was a necessary task. The last thing I need is to lose a story file that I've spent a few hours working on due to an erratic computer.

I must say the new one is faster. Unfortunately, that's all I can say. Learning the revised apps for Windows 10 has been a major pain in the ass. Or neck.

Yup, my stupid neck muscles went into spasms from my tension over being forced to make the change sooner than I planned.

So between sucking down naproxen like M&Ms and having to relearn how Outlook and MS Word operate, I'm really loathing my approach to 60.

I'm Back!

After being on Windows 8.1 for nearly nine years on my previous laptop, I finally got "most" of the stuff I need moved to my new baby. There were a few hiccups between 8.1 and Windows 10. Like when my printer decided it wasn't going to recognize the home wifi network.

I finally got it to recognize the wifi router, but then it decided the password I entered was incorrect. I entered, re-entered, double-checked DH's secret password list, and finally gave up at four this morning. I left the help tabs with HP open, so I could show DH when he was awake.

When I got up, I checked with DH. He confirmed that he didn't change the router password, and it was the same one I had. However, he was in the middle of the work day, so I need to wait and have him double-check everything.

And as I closed the umpteenth request for the damn password, the router and printer decided to talk to each other!

Sometimes, I wonder if we have a gremlin infestation. Time to find my white sage sticks and purify the house.