Life of Ronnie

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Oh Ronnie, will you never learn?

So, funny story about this comic:

Late last week I woke up to discover my computer had entered into some sort of infinite loop of crashing, restarting, and crashing again before it could even partially reboot. After hours of fighting with it, still no real progress. Nothing seemed to be working. I started to get really nervous about what I may have lost if the hard drive had screwed the pooch.

See, it’s not that I don’t do backups. For Christmas I got a lovely external hard drive, that I set up to backup all of my files daily. It’s a pretty sweet setup. BUT, about a little over a month ago I had some sort of crash and found that my computer would freeze up while booting if the drive was plugged in. Easy enough to fix, I just unplugged it whenever I needed to reboot. Easy peasy.

Well apparently at some point I forgot to plug it back in again.

Anyhow, long story only slightly shorter, I only had a handful of my comics since Life of Ronnie returned on the backup drive. Everything since Honk’s shadowy return and my entire buffer of upcoming comics was only to be found on an inaccessible and possibly kaput drive. I’ve been understandably worried they were gone forever and I’d have to redo them all.

In a last ditch effort I tried (for the first time) removing the drive and installing it in another computer. It took some trial and error (who knew there is a difference between a SATA port and SATA RAID port?) but finally I got it to work, and HALLELUJAH all of my comics (in addition to a ton of recent photos of my son) were all there.

And that’s why you got a comic on time today.