{"id":631,"date":"2019-01-15T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2019-01-15T20:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T04:55:18","slug":"reading-writing-or-living-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/reading-writing-or-living-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading, Writing, or Living? #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, I&#8217;m <em><strong>living<\/strong><\/em>. Living with a computer that bit the dust over the weekend, darn it. I would have said something stronger but this is a family site. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this old machine is close to ten years old. It&#8217;s served us well and we&#8217;ve gotten our money&#8217;s worth, but still, why oh why does technology have to give up the ghost? I mean, <em>ever<\/em>? Is it too much to ask that a computer never die?? I mean, really?<\/p>\n<p>I loved this machine. Loved the speed, loved the screen resolution, loved the memory capacity. I loved it from its little motherboard to its raid stacks. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"639\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/reading-writing-or-living-mfrwauthor\/depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_desktop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1239018453&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;55&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-639 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop.jpg?resize=179%2C119&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Desktop computer\" width=\"179\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_2120339_s-2015_Desktop.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 85vw, 179px\" \/>From its DVD writable drive to its mic plug. I&#8217;ve lived with this machine for so many years I had to look up the date we bought it. Now its chugging away back in the office trying to recover files at the manufacturer&#8217;s settings so we can see how much stuff we&#8217;ll be able to recover. (Note to self: Have &#8220;Back up more!!&#8221; tattooed on forehead.)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, while I&#8217;m learning to live without my computer, I&#8217;m reading! Just finished the <em>very<\/em> sexy <em>Block Shot<\/em>, which I loved, and then two<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"640\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_kindle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle.jpg?fit=499%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"499,339\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420467306&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle.jpg?fit=499%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-640 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle.jpg?resize=147%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reading on Kindle\" width=\"147\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Depositphotos_62550059_s-2015_Kindle.jpg?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 85vw, 147px\" \/> by Becky Wade that were Christian books (yes, I like my reading eclectic \ud83d\ude09 ), <em>True to You<\/em> and <em>Falling for You<\/em>. Both made me laugh and <em>Falling for You<\/em> made me cry, too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of crying, I&#8217;m going to go now and shed a few tears for my computer. I&#8217;ll be feeling low until the new one arrives next week. \ud83d\ude09 Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>To read the next post in this week&#8217;s blog hop, go here.<\/p>\n<p>Dee<br \/>\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<br \/>\nNaval Maneuvers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, I&#8217;m living. Living with a computer that bit the dust over the weekend, darn it. I would have said something stronger but this is a family site. \ud83d\ude09 Yes, this old machine is close to ten years old. It&#8217;s served us well and we&#8217;ve gotten our money&#8217;s worth, but still, why oh why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/reading-writing-or-living-mfrwauthor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading, Writing, or Living? #MFRWauthor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[357,355,8,106,12,25,72,358,104,254,70,356,176,7,102],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-information","category-uncategorized","tag-becky-wade","tag-computers","tag-dee-s-knight","tag-erotic","tag-erotic-romance","tag-erotic-romance-author","tag-kindle","tag-living","tag-naval-maneuvers","tag-only-a-good-man-will-do","tag-reading","tag-reading-device","tag-rlf","tag-romance","tag-romance-lives-forever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-ab","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}