update

Creeping toward a more functional (digital) state, here. It's been one step forward, two steps back, but today I received one more piece of phone-ordered paraphernalia (a replacement wifi dongle) and now - dare I say it? - it may just be a matter of getting everything set up again on my old laptop. I can only do an hour or so at a time, and there's a lot of seasonal tasking requiring my time these days, but Winter is coming and everyone needs an indoor hobby, right?

One piece of Plain Good News: that automatic back-up system I've been paying for the past few years has earned it's keep. It took a week of non-stop uploading to transfer the saved files back to the laptop and external hard drive, but now I think I've got them all and it's a matter of reinstalling apps and software, finding the restored files, and putting them "away" again. Here's the scale of this housework:

Even though this is a pretty dull blog post, I want to try to publish it because it will mean I can access and post from the old laptop again. Fingers crossed. Here goes.

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