Solstice, not Solace

So, not so much for no computer meaning more posts.

But, in my ongoing quest to turn the solstices and equinoxes into major holidays, happy summer/northern/June/Taurus solstice everybody! Today marks the day when the Earth's axis is tilted the most towards the Sun here in the Northern hemisphere. Unfortunately it is very cloudy here in Montreal today, making celebrating the latest sunset of the year more difficult.

And, just so this post isn't totally brief, my favourite ever summer solstice happened in 2002 when my friend Chris bought a pizza at Wreck Beach in Vancouver from a man wearing a fleece vest and no pants.

Crisitunity!

So, my computer is dead for now. What started with a warped DVD stuck in the optical drive ended up with a zapped hard drive and a broken Mac. A bit of laptop surgery later (of course I'm qualified to take apart laptop computers!), the disc is out of the optical drive, but the hard drive seems to be toast.

Failing to take my own advice to everyone, my last backup is about five months old. I haven't lost much actual work, since I've been mainly at the bench these last few months, but I might have lost quite a lot of writing in my journals. I haven't exhausted all the possible ways of resuscitating the hard drive or recovering the data yet, so all hope is not lost for getting the writing back.

In the meantime, while the computer is getting fixed, I think I'll treat this as a "crisitunity" - a chance to do more reading and more thinking, an opportunity to get outside more, get more work done, and to just generally spend less time online. Paradoxically, that might actually mean more blog posts, since those tend to get written in "productive thinking time" rather than "internet wasted time". We shall see!