Since last week, I was planning to make an announcement to you guys on Monday, today.

The announcement was going to be that there would be probably 1 more page of Joyride, and after that,  I was putting Joyride on something of a Christmas break.

The reason is because my computer has been slowly dying for almost a year now, and RAPIDLY dying for the last few months. So I asked for a new machine for Christmas. Meanwhile I was trying to squeeze the last bits of life out of my poor dying computer, just hoping and praying that it would hang on until Christmas.

I didn’t.

I’m typing this from my laptop because the hard drive on that system seems to have failed. When I turned it on this morning, it wouldn’t boot.

So, all day I’ve been trying to recover the data. No luck thus far, but I’ll keep working and we’ll see how it goes.

Worst case scenario is that all the data is corrupted and I lost… well, pretty much EVERYTHING. Which is a scenario that I do not wish to contemplate.

Best case, maybe only the table is corrupted and I’m able to recover the data from the drive somehow.

But either way, I feel the computer as a whole has breathed its last.  I don’t believe it will be possible for me to post any new pages before Christmas.

This whole situation is rather devastating to me. I’m just praying I can recover my crucial data, Joyride pages, and art.

I’ll keep you updated on what happens.