Empire (Empire, volume 1) by Orson Scott Card

America! Beset by conspiracy, assassination, and civil war! Worst of all, somewhere a French intellectual may be laughing at America! Hon hon hon!

Empire (Empire, volume 1) by Orson Scott Card

Awake now

Turned on my laptop, it ran for a bit and then went black. Totally unresponsive.

Took me a while to notice someone had in a fit of safety consciousness disconnected my laptop power cord. The little old lady I help take care of worries that plugged in electronics will burst into fire so she sometimes disconnects stuff.

At least it wasn't an external drive mid-backup.

Four Vastly Underrated Superpowers

These abilities might not help you fight crime, but they're still pretty awesome.

Four Vastly Underrated Superpowers

Does this sound reasonable?

The battery failure was followed (or maybe coincident) with a Windows 10 update. The reboot took a looong time. After it was up, my mouse stopped working. I assumed it was coincidence, and my mouse battery died.

Replaced the battery, no luck. Plugged my backup drive into the usb port the wireless mouse goes into, no reaction. Therefore, the update disabled my usb ports.

How do I fix that? Can I just deinstall the update?