I'm going to go find a place to cry here in a minute. I got off the phone with tech support.

It's the motherboard.

The computer is officially fried.

I can't afford the fix it or acquire a new computer.

Sorry, folks. I'll try to do what I can with limited time on the machine, but photos and other work is going to go down to a trickle if not a full stop. This also means that the photo/chapbook and the new photography book are on indefinite hold, as is all the data trapped on my hard disk.

Fuck, my novel's trapped on there too.

Fuck. I don't even have money for an external hard drive to save the data. Hmm. Maybe freecycle. They did have a keyboard for the Ant...

I'm trying to tell myself that it's just a thing, and things can be replaced, but right now I'm feeling like someone just gutted me with a rusty knife.

Yeah. Going to go cry now.