So, while coloring up the latest page of Dicebox, my computer froze mid-stroke.

I sort of panicked as right before my hard drive died a few weeks back it would do just that, freeze and crash without warning.* But I restarted and then continued with no more problems for hours. Nor have I had any problem since.

And it just occurred to me: before my hard drive went down, I hadn’t had a system crash for over a year and a half. The occasional quit out by Photoshop, sure, but, nothing else. And that only happened if I had to launch Classic. And I think this crash was caused by my wonky Wacom control panel (new version, gonna down grade I think).

And I demand a lot of my computer. Beyond the fact that the average Dicebox page is a working file size of 154 MB, I often run several applications at once, even allow one to execute a function as I work in another.

Not bad, Mac OS X. I salute you.

* I actually can figure out when a computer is about to crash by its performance.