Passing For Normal

I'm kind of a downer lately, for which I apologize. Working on it (with varying degrees of success). This post, however, is not full of sunshine and puppies.

First, the unrelieved bad news: ( The hard drive crash is unrecoverable. )

In more mixed news: I have a new monitor for my desktop computer, which is where I live for the majority of my waking hours. I had no idea exactly how much I live on this thing until it wasn't available. Wow. Anyway, new monitor -- an Asus 24-inch LCD -- is here and up and running ( and I do not love it. )

The good news: I can start catching up on a lot of things I missed! Like replying to comments, and reading a large backlog of people's posts, and replying to e-mails, and reading the last-ever (*sniffle*) McShep Match stories, and much more. A lot of my sunny-happy comes from wallowing in online fannish community and fannish creativity, and I'm going to roll around in it until it soaks in through the skin, the eyes, the ears, and... well. You get the idea. *g*

HI. I MISSED YOU. A REALLY WHOLE LOT. ♥