Good news and bad news…

The bad news is, my laptop’s hard disk has finally given up the ghost. It’s been complaining about bad sectors and getting gradually more corrupted for about a month now, and now finally refuses to boot into anything more complex than Fedora’s recovery mode.

At least I had time to get everything backed up, though – all I’ve actually lost is a few wallpapers and the beginning stages of The Lost, the enigmatic fifth Static Friction faction (and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to recover The Lost files using some liveCD trickery). I’ve ordered a new hard disk, and now I’m waiting for it to arrive.

The good news is, my set of four 60mm acrylic contact-juggling balls have arrived! These should keep me happily distracted until the new hard disk arrives. Soo shiny…