I’m incredibly lucky that I did decide to keep my OS on a small hard drive and to keep all my data separately stored and backed up. Because yesterday I got the dreaded black screen of death. Technically I shouldn’t have. I was able to grab my data to do the simplest clean install. But I shouldn’t even have to do that. Still. I know how to.

But it’s just such a drain. I had planned for this weekend to be time to work on my Cleves accessories. To print off my papers as they are and do some physical editing with a big red pen, scissors to literally cut and paste (or tape) because they’ve gotten so big that scrolling the digital copies means I might miss where I’ve written the same thing a few times.

And I do need to fold in the three incredible pieces of evidence which absolutely support why I took down my older research even though at the time it was because I had doubts not certainties. Those doubts got stronger, I thought I had got myself into the weeds, so I even doubted my own perception, which again meant I was even more unwilling to put my old work back out there. But these three pieces are exactly what I need.

So now all that work is safely backed up so I can just keep this harddrive solo while any patches to the update might roll out and might cause more havoc. I keep thinking I should also try and run games off another drive but I’m not going to lie all of this means I don’t have time, energy, pain levels to even have a little fun. I’m dreading this update on my laptop. I have my files backed up there as well. But I also have image editing apps for my pattern book- the surface allows me to draw directly to then use the tools to tidy it all.