If it isn't one thing, it's another. Came back home yesterday to discover that my computer no longer works. Might be a busted hard drive or the motherboard itself is fried. It'll be some time before I sort this one out. I am in no financial position to buy new hardware so I could be out of commission for some time.
EDIT: After a bunch of troubleshooting I've found that all I had was a HD failure, the one with my OS, specifically. Thankfully nothing irreplaceable was lost with it, however it's going to take me some time to get this thing back into working order.
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Nice.