I’m sitting on my bed, working with my 4 month old Dell laptop, getting the next 2 chapters of Hills ready to send to my proofreaders and the 320 GB hard drive dies. As in dead to the world, no life at all, cmos doesn’t even recognize that there is anything plugged in.

Now isn’t that enough to make a girl want to break down and cry?

Of course, Dell is replacing the drive, but that doesn’t do anything for the lost data, only 2 or 3 Gig worth, BUT STILL. The only good thing is that I do most of my writing on my PDA, saving everything onto a 2 Gig SD card. So, this little mishap (LITTLE, YEA RIGHT), won’t keep me off line; the PDA has wireless, as does the 16 month old laptop, not to mention the desk top and the server tower I’ve been working on.

So all in all, this is just really ... FRUSTRATING.

Grumble, Grumble,

Penny