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I'm reaching a point where some of the Internet doesn't work for my Mac anymore-- anything requiring Flash 11 or higher won't run on OSX pre-snow leopard whatever. I don't want to upgrade because, frankly, I have not heard good things about OSX beyond snow leopard, and I don't see why I need to buy a new OS for a computer that is roughly 3 years old. Especially when they're moving toward their iOS integration and I want a computer OS on my computer, not a mobile one.

Though it's great being told by a website that I should upgrade to a newer browser, like Firefox or Chrome. Which... I'm using. And it won't work in either.

Good lord, who knew I'd be a luddite so quickly!

At least my big computer got fixed. It got hit by a virus that looks like one of those "your computer is slow, buy our product to make it faster!" which quickly mutated into something dire: the OS stopped booting entirely. The professional I sent it to was like "yeah it's busted, it removed the OS boot files." So I resigned myself to wiping it. Then he told me the virus had only hidden the boot files, so yay! I get my computer back! With the honor of having one of the most exotic viruses he's ever seen. I don't do halfsies when I mess up.

This is currently the story of my life. Oh yeah, and I lost some edits to Wonderpus because I'm an idiot, and then I opened a Google document to find... only the first sentence of a fic. I flipped out-- internally, since I was in class-- because last time I saw it, there were 6,000 words that came after that first sentence. Not only that, but it's the defining story for my Space Noir universe. Not that any story is okay to lose, but this was the story I wanted for that setting. I wanted to cry, until I realized that gdocs has revision history, which is something Microsoft Word couldn't do for me after I saved over the edited Wonderpus with an old version. I have never had an issue like that with gdocs before, so if anyone uses it, uh... head's up. Gdocs can eat your story for no discernible reason. But it'll save the old one in revision history. Maybe.