{"id":1125,"date":"2026-09-23T08:38:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2026-09-23T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:38:41","slug":"asterisk-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Asterisk is dead."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My computer died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios-1024x495.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios-1536x742.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bios.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But luckily, I have Number One Son&#8217;s old desktop. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s connected to his laptop so I can&#8217;t delete stuff. Meanwhile, this C drive is 75% full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I have to be careful what I download. Only the necessary stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I lost my novels and programs such as Sirius 4.1 (astrology), Scrivener (novel writing). I don&#8217;t use them very often, but it&#8217;s nice to have them. I lost 380 books that I downloaded into my book tracking program. Of course I backed it up&#8230;on my old computer&#8217;s C drive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good news, maybe, is I have a backup somewhere on Dropbox. Also all my shortcuts in Chrome and Edge carried over (thank the Gods), so I can still work for The Publisher. Outlook won&#8217;t work, so I need to load my work email into something else. I have access, but it&#8217;s bare-bones and web-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could have been much worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My computer died. But luckily, I have Number One Son&#8217;s old desktop. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s connected to his laptop so I can&#8217;t delete stuff. Meanwhile, this C drive is 75% full. So I have to be careful what I download. Only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}