"She turned me into a newt!...I got better."

[regala_electra]

I'm probably messing that line up. I expect someone to correct it.

So, last night. Got exactly four hours of sleep between 5 AM and 9 AM-ish. Lovely.

After going through all my lj posts (Jesus I am whiny) back from the very beginning, I only found one reference to posting the Lost Fic, redefining the universe. And I didn't. Of course.

So this morning, my brain, still sort of running on fumes, goes, "hey, isn't there like a back up CD that was made of your old laptop files over a year ago?"

And yes there is.

Only it is missing. Fuck. Tore apart my room looking for it. No sign of it. Fantabulous.

However, I did find some old hard disks (floppies) under my glass table/book-shelf-by-proxy. And I actually labelled some of them, which is hilarious because I rarely remember to label shit. And one of them? "Fic: redefining the universe."

One problem of course.

We have four computers in the house: 3 laptops and a home computer. Guess what they don't have? That's right, a drive for diskettes.

So now I have to figure out how the hell I can get this fic out of the disk, even if it's an old copy, it's at least something and I can work from it.

And I don't even know if it's going to be workable because I haven't used this disk in nearly two years.

Still.

There's hope.

Just no way of opening it.

ETA: adrenya is awesome and corrected me. It's newt, not squirrel. Heh.

Comments

[livii.livejournal.com]

Public library computer? Those are usually older and have disk drives so that people can save the work they do on them.

Good luck!!

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion. I was considering going there, but I found out my grandfather has one of the attachable disk drives at his house so I picked it up.

And found not only The Fic I was looking for, but my first Farscape fic. Ah, memories.

And I found a disk with a bunch of my old icons (mostly BtVS, but some tasty PotC Captain Jack ones).

Excellent.

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

Yes, the library might have ye olde floppy drives. Also, is there a computer at your work that might have one?

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Danke. Found out my grandfather had a disk drive I could hook up to my laptop.

Unfortunately couldn't do it at work, lol. My PC sits in a closet basically, while my monitor's on a side desk/cart thing.

[romanyg.livejournal.com]

*belated hugs back atchya*

[adrenya.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest the library or Kinko's or something, but you got it all figured out.

Also, the subject line, it's a newt not a squirrel :D

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

A newt!

Thank you. I'm going to be horrible and change it. Heh.

I'll do an ETA.

Danke!