It's Alive! It's Aaaalivee!!!

   Nope, I'm not talking about Frankenstein, though it is close I suppose. A partial brain transplant I guess you could call it. lol

  Ayeyup, I got my PC fixed. (I think) Some of the betas knew what was going on, my PC has been acting up off and on for a while, freezing, crashing, etc. It kept pointing to a HDD issue, so I swapped and cloned that... nope. New cooling, nope. Virus scans... nope. New GPU... nope. Windows repair... nope. New memory... nope, not it. The thing I could find on the web for the symptoms pointed to a a bad motherboard, possibly overstressed from when it overheated a couple months ago.
  Then the freezes and crashes became constant. I was loosing data and things were getting frustrating over the weekend. I was at a stand still writing since it crashed even while doing that! (I almost lost everything!) I had to do a motherboard swap (and upgrade with the new memory back in) but that turned into replacing the PSU too since I had to modify the one I just bought to fit the old board. I was at a stand still Tuesday and yesterday until it came in. (well, not quite standing still since I had to fend the cats off the PC. What's with them thinking it's a fun box to play in?? I've lost 1 PC to a nosy furry brat that way!)

   So far so good. No hint of instability. The cats also survived if you're wondering, though if Lil Red keeps attacking my ankle like she is right now, all bets are off. :)

   So, I'm back up and running. Now I just need to recreate the pages in Pirate Rage that I lost during the crashes... fortunately I didn't loose the entire manuscript! I'll hold off stress testing (I'm stressed enough) until the weather cools off and I'm done PR.

   Oh, speaking of PR, I'm in Chapter 27 if anyone is interested. I just passed the Act II marker in chapter 26 last week. (yeah, insane). There has been some debate on splitting the book in half (there is a ton of stuff in it!) but since Carlos, Thomas, and a few other betas have complained about that, I've decided to stick it out and see how it goes. I might be a bit ambitious since it's being pulled in so many different directions though...

   Most of the betas have now seen chapter 1 of PR btw. I've gotten a bit of feedback from them, including some in depth musings from Minion Mike. Very helpful there. A lot of death threats for not getting the book finished too and leaving them hanging. Fortunately only Thomas knows were I live. >:D

   Let's just say, things start with a bang. Good luck dragging more out of Jory, Mike, or any of the others on the FB group. lol

    I'm still waiting on 1 Beta to get back to me on AI War. As soon as he gets his feedback to me I'll pass it on to Rea and we can get the ball rolling for that publishing. I am still keeping my fingers crossed we can get it out by the first week of November. Hopefully??? Maybe?

   Well, I'm off to go visit the Horathian court, then go delve into the reveal of the secrets of El Dorado some more. Till next time!