The Great Birthday Explosion

Hey, guess what? It was my birthday a couple days ago and in honor of it, the Universe conspired to destroy what little hope I had left by blowing up my laptop on birthday eve.  I did what I could to repair it, but it quickly became obvious it was gone - and with it, a few things I would need to continue writing the Sims story for this blog.  I had been religiously backing up my game saves, but I may not have backed up my mods folder recently enough to get all of my new custom content - which would mean that I'd have to go shopping for a lot of it again - especially things installed by the launcher that weren't from the store.

I'm having stuff from my hard drive extracted, so hopefully I'll be able to get the photos and videos I need to continue writing the Sims story.  It just hadn't occurred to me to back up pictures that hadn't yet been made into a story.  I guess I learned my lesson.

Now I just have to hope for the best when it comes to putting my backed-up saves into my newly-installed game. 

How this all affects you is that I will not be able to post the Sims story I promised this week.  I'm sorry - but basically, the only thing that would cause this to happen is a major illness or death in my family or catastrophic equipment failure, which is the case this time.

I don't want to think about what will happen if my saved game doesn't work, or if I'm unable to retrieve the stuff from my hard drive.  I'm sorry this post isn't funny.  This situation was the least funny thing to happen to me in a long time.  But!  I did have a fairly insane experience while picking up my new laptop that will be my next post, and ... it's not at all as dry and boring as this.  Stay tuned.