It never rains but it pours

As if the cold that's been roaring around Kenzie World Headquarters wasn't enough, I got the words you never want to see when booting up my desktop yesterday:

Primary Master Slave Hard Drive Fail

Yikes.

Something like this happened once before a couple of years ago, and after much thrashing around, proved to be only a loose wire inside.

I tried that this time - no luck.

So it is in the hands of the geeks, who seem confident they'll at least be able to recover the data, if not the drive itself.

Could never happen in a regular week, could it? Only during the holidays...

Still, I will attempt to keep up using the little laptop.

Hack kaff wheeze...