It seems like I can't get through a project without some form of computer trouble no matter what I do to try and minimize both the odds of it happening and the impact it has when it does happen.
For some context, one of my friends gave me a RAM upgrade to try and make my life a little easier. Which was great and I appreciate him doing that, none of this is his fault and I'm glad to have the upgrade.
However, swapping out my RAM led to some sort of hardware conflict. It didn't affect my work at all at first, programs would just crash every so often for reasons I had a very hard time trying to diagnose. I updated drivers, I installed security updates, I rolled updates back and reinstalled them, I updated more drivers, I ran hardware and software scans that turned up no issues, I read through tech help threads with similar issues that found solutions that didn't fix the issue for me, and somewhere along the line, all my attempts to fix the problem made the problem worse.
What that boils down to in terms of progress is that I spent a lot more time trying to find a solution for my programs crashing on me than I did actually working on the guide.
As frustrating as all that was, though, the issue does now seem to be fixed (at least to the extent that trying to create situations that caused crashes before doesn't cause any crashes now), and I've managed to still make enough progress on the guide that I don't feel like I've fallen horrendously behind. Really, the biggest downside of the whole ordeal is that I had less time to relax and reset before I had to make myself be productive the next day, which means I'm yet again flirting with burnout.
But hey, now I have twice as much RAM as I used to, so I get better performance out of things when I do let myself relax.
There's also not a lot of game left to make a guide for. As far as the main story goes, it's just the shrines in the northlands and the castle itself.
Granted, that doesn't count all the appendix stuff that still needs doing, which is likely to take a couple weeks to fill in, but one thing at a time. We'll get there.
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