delayed post, it's really last night

Lovely.
My desktop computer is hors de combat (out of commission), so he has taken over my laptop. End result? On the first day of NaNoWriMo I am stuck using a 10 year old laptop with no broadband capability (the pc card slot was broken when Frank dropped it when it didn’t have a case.), a broken screen hinge (same reason), no battery life (it's 10 years old, what do you expect) and Windows 98. I am not happy.
At least RoughDraft works, and I used this laptop last year. It didn't have a battery then, and I survived. I will survive this too.
I took the desktop to work, and got a diagnosis from m_streight and baronan of a booched hard drive (a bad cluster, a bad hive file, or a corrupted file). They recommended re-installing the software, but didn't have a loaner disk. So I started trying to find a computer place, since the last place I used went bankrupt.
The first had a 2-3 week backlog. Thank you but no thank you.
The second closed at 5:00 (when I get out of work), free diagnosis, and opened at 8:30. Thank you let me keep looking.
The third claimed that they were open until 9:00 and they had a store in the mall. The address I had for them in the phone book they no longer used. They'd just changed their location. I had a winner.

At least I did until I got to the mall. They have a kiosk in the mall. They have an unstaffed kiosk in the mall. They have an empty kiosk in the mall.
I drove home by way of the second computer place, to make sure that I could find it in the morning.
I think it's wise of me to avoid fencing tonight, despite the chance to fence weezeld. I'd probably hurt someone.