Fright of my life time

Fright of my life time going into a cyber-cafe yesterday. They had network sockets that you could plug your laptop into, so I plonked myself down by one, tried to switch my Vaio out of hibernate mode, sat there staring at a Sony logo onscreen for about 20 seconds (it normally disappears after about 1) and then saw the message “Missing operating system”… which usually means the machine can’t find the hard disk. Fuck… gave the machine a little shake (well, you never know…), checked all the wierdy port bits where hard disks might get plugged in, in case it had worked its way loose, switched off, switched on again, etc. etc… all to no avail. Shit. Although I’ve got most of my work backed up, there’s enough that isn’t - like the two articles I wrote on the train on the way down to London - and I hate ever re-writing anything. Also, since I switched from Outlook Express to Outlook a couple of weeks ago, I’m not sure that my emails are backed up. Couldn’t bear to lose even a days worth.

Anyway, I gave up… but once I got to Jan’s I thought of checking the BIOS. Well, the BIOS definitely said there’s a hard disk in there, so it can’t have come unplugged… reload default settings and try again and… HEY! There’s my operating system again! And it woke up from its previous hibernation, didn’t even restart Windows. Isn’t life strange sometimes.

When I did finally get to check my emails, more frights. 2 very depressing emails from Annick & Guy within a few minutes of one another