What am I going to do now? The other day my husband comes up from the basement and says.. "Your hard drive is making some weird noises"  I think nothing of it and said I’d check on it later.  I go down, it’s making these clicking noises I’ve never heard before.  Nothing is working, the keyboard, the mouse.. all frozen, so I shut it down.  Come back an hour later, thinking it just needed some rest.  I turn it on and that noise returns, only this time I get a boot screen telling me that the component is missing or damaged.  That’s right folks.. my hard drive crashed!!

I’m not concerned with too much data lost.  The most important thing to me is pictures, those are irreplacable.  Luckily for me, I was quite consistant with burning new pics to a disc.  Another lucky for me is that the last picture upload to my computer, I hadn’t erased off my camera yet.. so even though I hadn’t burned them to a data disc yet, they are still on my camera.. whew!  There were a few pictures that are gone, those that folks emailed me.  And I had quite a collection of web design graphics that are now gone, including ones that I created like my blog banner you see at the top.  Shit!! I just realized all my favorites are gone too!! I had them all catagorized too, dammit!  The more I talk about this, the more upsetting it’s going to get as I realize more and more stuff I’ve lost.  Just thank God I hadn’t erased the Christmas pictures off my camera yet!

So now I’m on the market for a new hard drive.  Looking at this one, I’ll have to wait till pay day next week though.  So, in the meantime, I cannot access the internet at home.  What am I going to do with myself late at night after hubby and child are in bed? That’s my "me" time to surf.  UGH!!

Well, have a great weekend everyone! I’m off work until Tuesday.  All this time with no internet at home is going to be a true test of my sanity!

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