This story is only mostly dead.

Please, allow me to explain.

You see, I had been working on the timeline for this story (the next chapter is/was entitled “The Ones Who Are Dead,” ironically enough) when I received one too many kernel panics. For those of you not lucky enough to have a Mac (I use 10.6.8 still, as that was the last good Mac version, in my opinion), or those that choose not to have any Apple products beyond the iDevices, a kernel panic is the Mac OSX BSoD. Now, it takes a lot to cause the kernel to actually panic. Like, you need to access protected system memory and try to overwrite it, which isn’t easy in UNIX.

So, that meant a reinstall. Fine, I’ll tell the Snow Leopard Installer to keep my old files. Only, it didn’t, instead forcing a complete wipe and install. Little peeved, but it’s fine.  Of course, I’d tried everything UNIX I know beforehand: tried fsck from two or three different Unices, including Single User mode; ran dd; etc. Basically, I did everything but take it to the Apple store. Hay, I even went into Boot Camp and, using MacDrive 8, ran a version of CHKDSK!

At any ray, I’m stressed out, and forget about the Scrivener project until I’ve completely overwritten the partition (as I could still read the Mac partition in Boot Camp, just not write to it or boot into it). That happened in May—almost 3 months to the day of what happened next.

Fast-forward to early August. I’ve actually bought Scrivener, as I think it is of value, and have been rebuilding the storyline in it. It’s slightly different, I can tell; however, it’s not a bad different. Anyway, late one night, at around 3 AM, I hear a bump outside my door. I get up to check what it is, my foot gets caught in the cord, and down my computer goes with a loud SMACK! I whip around to see what that was, and my MBP is laying on the ground, closed. There’s something horrendously wrong with this picture, is the first thought in my head. I then realize what it is: the MagSafe failed me. I pick my computer up and open it, but it acts like it has suffered the computer equivalent of a concussion. That’s when I remember that I didn’t secure the hard drive as securely as possible, leaving the docking screws on the stock 250. I try to repair the hard drive, but this time, instead of a small little hiccup, there’s what I imagine to be a huge gash across the Mac section, as it requires 10 minutes fscking every time it boots up, and eventually, after maybe ten times of that, just stops working altogether.

So, it’s back to installing. Again. But this time, I can’t. At all. Just to check, I tried Ubuntu 11.10 and Arch Linux in that area; that whole partition is bad. It’s fine, though, as I used a different par—what?! I can only access my Windows partition? What the hay, man? That’s 450 GB of data, gone! Not to mention my Scrivener license is for the Mac version! I’m going to have to drop my stock 250 back in and pull it up as an external—I can’t access the extra partition from inside Mac OS X with my hard drive running as and external. Are you fscking kidding me? Sodacans.wav all around, as I don’t drink beer.

But, third time’s the charm, right? Just thought you should know, if you even remember this story, that I have been working on it, even revising the first three chapters for the third time now. I don’t like that I just disappeared on y’all, after all. In addition, I’ve been reading other ponies’ stories, working on learning rspec and Cucumber, developing a text-based game using ncurses, and sometimes hitting up ##MyLittleLegend on ponychat. Oh, and playing Fallout: New Vegas after reading up to about chapter 23 of Fallout: Equestria and finding a great deal on eBay for that game and Bioshocks 1 & 2. I’ve been by where my house is. Was. It’s an. . .interesting moment, to say the least.

Anyway, this time, I’m a lot more comfortable with git, so after I buy a premium subscription, I’ll be syncing it on github. This won’t be happening again. Sorry for letting everypony down.