Heidelberg, Germany, 16/10/03

My hard drive crashed last Wednesday morning. 1:46am to be precise, just as I was putting the finishing touches to the video I was editing for the meeting starting at 8am. The computer refused to restart, flashing blankly at me, waiting for instruction. In despair, I went to bed.

Step forward to Saturday. 3.5 days without a computer was infuriating me, even more due to the lovely people fixing the machine putting back the quotation time from 3pm Thursday to 10 am Friday, to 4 pm Friday, then to Saturday sometime, until finally they settled on Monday, 9am.

Monday rolls around. 5 days. I call them up. It's ready. How long did it take to fix? 1 hour.

I sighed.

Well, at least it's working again.