Eeeps!

[fufaraw]

So, I needed to walk the laptop across the room to show a picture to a friend. The lappie is on the cord 99% of the time because the battery life is like, 20 minutes, tops, and that's unreliable, doesn't say when, just shuts down when it's had enough. So I pop in the battery, pull the cord and stand up to walk across the room and bam! The battery falls on my instep. Well, shit. And also, OW. So I stick the battery back in, find the pic on the hard drive and show the friend, we chat about it and I go back and plug the cord in, pop the battery, and fire up the browser. Um, one tab, homepage comes up.

Where are my tabs?

Where are my fricken multiple tabs, dammit!? ("Where is my super suit!?")

So we wait, and the "Oops, would you like us to try and restore your tabs?" never comes up. So I noodle around and try and find "restore previous session," with no luck. Shit. Shitshitshit.

I smile and close the laptop and enjoy the friend's visit. As soon as she's out the door I open the laptop, shut down and boot up again...same deal, no tabs. So, last line of hope, system restore. And we wait, and we wait and ->BING!<-  Hello, my name is Erica, and I love you both. Here are your tabs.

ILY, SYSTEM RESTORE, AND ALL BENEVOLENT GODS!!

Making a list of tab URLs right fucking now, thanks. Whew.

Comments

[meus_venator]

Your laptop is possessed. You need Sam and maybe not Dean LOL
Why is it you always have this nice selection of tabs going and your mouth is practically watering at the thought of reading them all when something (maybe not quite like this), but something happens.

I bet you could hardly contain yourself with your guest. You deserve a cookie!

[fufaraw]

I DO deserve a cookie! Mmm, cookies.

I actually was able to compartmentalize completely and enjoy the visit. But boy howdy, the door hadn't completely latched behind her before I had that puppy open and was exploring all possibilities. I just want to feed cookies to system restore!!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

These machines exist only to make us scream in horror when they DIE. Speaking from a broken heart. My kindle fried itself, taking with it my only copy of one of my fav fics ever. My fault...it was doofy to download the fic onto the kindle and then delete it from everywhere else. Don't even ask...but this isn't about my pain. *big watery shaky inhale*

Kudos on your patience, I'd have been like, "Get out! Important stuff going on now!!!"

[fufaraw]

I must say, I was pretty good at compartmentalizing. I was really happy to see and spend time with her, and it wasn't her fault I was a doof. But the minute she was gone, buddy, back to problem solving.

I am so sorry about your kindle and your favorite fic! That's...just cruel irony. Any chance you can find a link to the fic anywhere? Or possibly recover it from one of the devices you deleted it from? I don't empty my recycle bin (deleted files) very often. Lots of times I can just go pull it out of there and back to a reading folder. Worth a look, maybe?

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I found the fic, tucked away on a thumbdrive I'd forgotten all about!!! I just wanted to share because it made me happy! :D

[fufaraw]

\o/ !!

[reggie11.livejournal.com]

System Restore is the ant's pants! I had to do one the day after Sydney's apocalyptic storm after I was in the middle of something and got the dreaded blue screen. When I fired it up again, my laptop and modem were no longer speaking (I think they were having Sam and Dean like issues). One System restore later and, "hello there lovely modem, let's boogie".

So glad you got it fixed, AND managed to not have a brain meltdown during your friend's visit. You are a better woman than me, I would have thrown a tantrum.

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

:( and :)

Glad you were able to find them again.