Well, crap.

My laptop will no longer charge.

I think I know what's wrong and how to fix it, but of course it waited until all my hardware-helpful people were off at Pennsic to finally stop working for good. And the fix involves soldering, at which I am fail. (And I probably also need a new charger and battery pack - the battery pack, charger, and socket all decided to start being fail within a month of each other. BAH.)

So I am going to be on my ancient, creaky, linux-running desktop with no USB drivers for at least the next two weeks or so. I may attempt to cannibalize my mom's old box with the fried motherboard and turn the desktop into a much peppier machine that dual-boots Windows XP and Linux off of two hard drives, but I should probably wait on that until the laptop is fixed, so I don't break them *both* at the same time. So I will be doing very little fancy computery stuff for the immediate future, alas.

At least I did finally back up all my non-pirate-media files onto CD right before the laptop failed, so I don't think I lost access to any writing or art or anything (except the playlists I was working on.) But still.

I think it's stellar_dust's fault. She cursed me.