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Dear helpful software bots
Jul. 23rd, 2007 10:22 pm*AHEM*
I HAVE LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS LEFT TO FINISH THIS NOVEL. I WILL NOT BE INSTALLING NEW SOFTWARE ON THIS PC. I DON'T CARE HOW MANY TIMES YOU REMIND ME OF THE UPGRADES, NOTHING, I REPEAT, NOTHING WILL CHANGE ON THIS SYSTEM UNTIL THE BOOK HAS BEEN PRINTED AND MAILED.
THANK YOU.
Thus speaks a writer who has suffered two severe crashes during end-book stage. The first time it happened, installing unrelated software caused a computer crash that cost me several days worth of work--I had hardcopies of the relevant chapters that had to be rekeyed in.
The second time, the computer experienced catastrophic hard drive failure the morning I powered it on to input final revisions. In this case luckily everything was backed up, but I wound up buying a whole new system before noon then completing the revisions on that new system later that day.
This time I'm not messing around. I've petted the hard drive, backed up the relevant files, and made offerings to the gods of technology. So please, for the love of Mike, Adobe, AutoSpyware, and all your friends, please stop harassing me, okay? I promise I'll spend hours downloading and installing anything you want, once the book is done.
Love, thanks, bye.
I HAVE LESS THAN FOUR WEEKS LEFT TO FINISH THIS NOVEL. I WILL NOT BE INSTALLING NEW SOFTWARE ON THIS PC. I DON'T CARE HOW MANY TIMES YOU REMIND ME OF THE UPGRADES, NOTHING, I REPEAT, NOTHING WILL CHANGE ON THIS SYSTEM UNTIL THE BOOK HAS BEEN PRINTED AND MAILED.
THANK YOU.
Thus speaks a writer who has suffered two severe crashes during end-book stage. The first time it happened, installing unrelated software caused a computer crash that cost me several days worth of work--I had hardcopies of the relevant chapters that had to be rekeyed in.
The second time, the computer experienced catastrophic hard drive failure the morning I powered it on to input final revisions. In this case luckily everything was backed up, but I wound up buying a whole new system before noon then completing the revisions on that new system later that day.
This time I'm not messing around. I've petted the hard drive, backed up the relevant files, and made offerings to the gods of technology. So please, for the love of Mike, Adobe, AutoSpyware, and all your friends, please stop harassing me, okay? I promise I'll spend hours downloading and installing anything you want, once the book is done.
Love, thanks, bye.
