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Wanted to apologize for being so thin on the ground here, lately. There's real life stuff needing to be done, and all the rest of my focus right now is on my BB. Which, is proceeding. If it's not magically completing itself, well, that is a little too much to hope for, I suppose.

But I'm also being scarce on purpose because--People! So Much Tempting Meanttobe fic! So! Much! So tempting! So I'm kinda marking the dates so I can come back later and eat it ALL up with a SPOON! And BB starts posting *tomorrow*!! So much fic, and me with a moratorium on reading until I post. So sad.

It's really warm, today, and we've deployed the fans, which is really the only way we survive summer with no AC. I'm lacking one oscillator, which is on a high closet shelf and much be fetched by the Other Human, and also the cardboard baffle we made for the front window to keep sun heat on the window glass from heating up the room. It's white on the side that faces out, for reflection, and corrugated for a bit of insulation. We *tell ourselves* it's helping, and it may be, a degree or two. The only thing left to do, and I'm saving it for end of July and August--is mount the shade in the skylight. It turns the whole center of the house into underwaterish gloom, though, and I don't like it. But if it's a choice between baking in our juices and living in gloom, well....

Hope you're all well.

2767 wc to go, guys. Send me woooorrrrds.

I was half-asleep when I shut down the laptop to go to bed last night. I'd kept the BB doc in Word open, in case I wanted to poke at it a little before I logged off for the night. I clicked the x to close it, and the dialog box came up just as I spotted the stick drive and realized I hadn't backed the document up yet, so I clicked "no", I don't want to close the document.

Unfortunately, what the dialog box was asking was, "Do you want to save changes to this document."

Every single fricken word I wrote yesterday, gone. Pffft. System restore will back up the computer to a specific time point, but it won't touch saved documents. And the latest restore point for Word is 4.21.

So, fellow babies, save your damned work, even if you're just getting up to pee. I'm trying to reconstruct, but I just keep looking at that deadline and shaking my head.

Okay, outta here. Gonna be *real* thin on the ground for the next few days.