That's right! Something so terrible, so horrific, so incredibly awful it can't be borne by a sane human being!

...Good thing it's happened to me

Unfortunately, I have had to send my beloved laptop into the company I purchased it from for repairs. On it was my entire 3D library and all my recent creations, so until it is sent back to me (in two weeks or so) there won't be any new uploads.

The problem is that there are these stupid lines, both horizontal and vertical, across the screen. At first there was just one and I figured, "hey...it's only one stupid line. I can live with that." Two weeks later there's a pattern that resembles a plaid flannel shirt I wore back in the gay '90's when it was the fashion to wear one over a t-shirt. So I called the company (when I bought the computer I sprung for a 3-year full warranty, and it came with a 1-year warranty on all parts and software) and it's currently winging it's way via Fed-Ex to Tennessee where it will receive it's desperately needed repairs.

I'm 99% sure it's a hardware problem, so hopefully they won't have to reformat my hard drive (thereby deleting all my lovely, lovely models and the rest of my 3-D library, as well as about a million pictures of my neice and all my saved games.)

But, the possibility is there, in which case it'll be even longer while I hit the torrents and go through Rendo and all the other places where I downloaded my enormous library. (I probably have 40 gigs worth of library on that machine, lol.)

In case you're wondering why I didn't back up - I can't afford 40 gigs worth of blank CDs or flash drives to back up all that stuff. So I just crossed my fingers and hoped for the best.

Wish me luck!

QB