Aww, I'd suspect the floppy disk story is an urban legend, then. I did think it sounded a little too good to be true, but I wanted to believe it!

Speaking of past-you's vaguely trolly commenting: in my search for that ficbit, I came across a request from you in a different fic request entry. It read, 'Write a drabble about the tertiary economic effects of the Sorceress War and their influence on Ellone's emotional development.' (Patrick never wrote it, the coward.)