RIP The Electric Quill

My laptop died!! (sob). The misfortune was prevented from becoming a tragedy though. A good friend who knows computers made some suggestions which enabled me to recover my data. Which was brilliant because I hadn't backed up my files for for over four months. There were 12,000 words at stake!!

It really is dead-as-a-doornail now though. (Strange phrase that. Can a doornail be considered to be "dead" since it was never actually alive?? And if it can, then how did it die?? Blunt-force trauma??) The hard-drive is kaput. And the battery looks as though - if it didn't actually catch fire it sure as hell had a good try at it.

So I guess I'm shopping for a new laptop this weekend (preferably costing less than £300). I suppose it is about time. The old one had been teetering on the edge of doom for several years. And considering it was 8 or 9 years old, weighed 3kg, and had a 20GB hard-drive and 128MB of RAM, it really did need replacing.

But I'll miss it. I'd grown accustomed to its little quirks.

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Alphas

• Lose Myself by fembuck (Girlslash).
  
  Angel
  
• Four Hundred Years, and Still Too Short by erimthar (Girlslash).
  
  Criminal Minds
  
• Chapter 21 of Take My Hand and Show Me the Way by author18 (Women in Kevlar).
  
  
• Part 1 of Whatever Floats Your Boat by Semerket (Women in Kevlar).
  
  Criminal Minds/X-Men Crossover
  
• Part 4 of Falling by Louisa and Tamoline (C M Femslash).
  
  CSI
  
• Part 7 of Mistakes by txltosfo (Women in Kevlar).
  
  
• Part 8 of Mistakes by txltosfo (Women in Kevlar).
  
  
• Part 9 of Mistakes by txltosfo (Women in Kevlar).
  
  
• Part 10 of Mistakes by txltosfo (Women in Kevlar).
  
  Doctor Who
  
• Time Was by celievamp (D W femslash).
  
  
• Part 7 of The Writer by kwanboa (D W femslash).
  
  Glee
  
• Interlude by Salmon Pink (Femmeslash).
  
  
• Chapter 3 of Empire State of Mind by agentb81 (Girlslash).
  
  Guiding Light
  
• Part 10 of Whither Thou Goest by GeekGrrl Lurking(Burning City).
  
  (Kim Harrison's) The Hollows
  
• Part 1 of Unleashed by shadow_helos (ivy-rachel).
  
  
• A Very Ravy I.D.F. by author18 (ivy-rachel).
  
  Law & Order: SVU
  
• Missing Scenes from "Guilt" by sunsetwriter (Alex_Liv_Lovers).
  
  
• Holiday Short - FemSlashCon 2011 by sunsetwriter (Alex_Liv_Lovers).
  
  
• Chapter 13 of These Are Days by author18 (Alex_Liv_Lovers).
  
  Nikki & Nora
  
• Chapter 16 of Roll Away Your Stone by 1shinyboat (Ladycops).
  
  Rizzoli & Isles
  
• Thank You For Reminding Me by msanimanga (jane_maura ff).
  
  
• Badass Maura by msanimanga (jane_maura ff).
  
  
• The Things We Do For Love by cj2017 (jane_maura ff).
  
  
• Chapter 11 of Out of Tune by aturtleback (jane_maura ff).
  
  
• You're My Hero by inkwheels (jane_maura ff).
  
  
• Part 3 of Little Black Book by anamatics (Rizzoli & Isles LJ).
  
  
• Parts 11 to 13 of Evolution by crackinois (Rizzoli & Isles LJ).
  
  
• Bed Intruder by seriousfic (Rizzoli & Isles LJ).
  
  South of Nowhere
  
• Chapter 7 of In Demand by Dev (Clom 'n' Dev's S-O-N Fanfiction).