My new ThinkPad is due to arrive in my hot little hands sometime on Friday. Better yet, the repair guy was able to get the old cranky machine to boot up again, so even as I type this, files are flying driving walking crawling off of its almost-full-to-the-brim hard drive onto my shiny new, amber-glowing Seagate FreeAgent 500 GB external drive. (I suspect they'd be moving a lot faster through a USB 2.0 port, but my current laptop is so old it doesn't have one of those things. Still, it's moved around 1,750 files, or about a gig and a half, in the last hour--only 8,700-odd additional files, or about 17.5 gig left to transfer--and I think the backup software is still scanning the hard drive to find all the files I told it to back up.) Something tells me I may have to let this sucker run all night just to get the files safely to a reliable drive.
Then, sometime on Friday, I hope to reverse the process (and hope that it goes much more quickly), whereupon my electronic, data, writing, and scholarly lives can get back to normal. Just in time for me to head to Portland--maybe I can get some serious writing done on the plane!
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