Computer failure (Patreon)

This past Saturday my trusty invincible laptop decided it wasn't going to boot up. Not even in safe mode. I spent 2 days trying to get OS recovery to work on it, to no avail. And so the situation required me to go out and immediately purchase a new laptop to use for email and whatnot, because payday was today (on the 1st) and I can't leave people hanging, wondering what is going on. Having no email wasn't helping the situation. Pretty much everything was dead, and I was searching tech articles on my crappy old phone and an old, naked Raspberry Pi with a 3-year-old outdated install of barebones Linux.

To make a long story short, fortunately I did not lose any data, managed to get everything off the old hard-drive, email has been restored and everyone got paid on time. I'm slowly piecing together all my art stuff to get me back working and streaming again. And your art packs will go out as scheduled. 

Lesson: Backups save lives. Make backups. Frequently.

Secondary lesson: when you start thinking it's time for a new laptop, get one. Don't assume, dumbly, that "eh, it will hold out" and then be forced to buy one that is not ideal, on short notice, in a country where these things are not cheap, they come with weird Spanish keyboards, and "cutting edge" is a 2012 model (my old 2011 model is actually faster. Was faster...).