Damn and blast!
I have no better suggestions than those already put forward, so I'm simply going to extend my commisserations and hope on your behalf that the damage is temporary, or, at worst, like that of my old laptop; affecting functionality, not files.
Thank you, Sir B. I am hopeful, if not exactly optimistic and certainly not confident, that it is just a functionality issue. After a fashion, the thing does still turn on and off when I want it to. I just can’t see anything, obviously. Underneath it all I think everything probably still works.
But if it does come to it that I’ve lost some stuff, not the end of the world. I know what I’m doing, and a chance to revise some stuff won’t go unappreciated. The biggest potential loss is actually the basis for an entire new AAR which I had half a mind to debut in the spring. But again, the artist in me knows to meet all this with equanimity.
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In the meantime, the in-world crisis continues. The next pointless but short scene-setting intervention will probably be up later on, and then some actual action.