*smashes skull on desk*

Last night I stayed up until 2am watching the VP debate and the following commentary on numerous channels, (and by “watching” I mean screaming nasty and profane things at the television while jumping up and down AND watching the live blogging over at the Ravelry “Knitters for Obama” thread) and then this morning I woke up to my computer making the most horrid noise you have ever heard in your entire life. It sounded like a cross between silverware caught in the garbage disposal and a Dremel tool on high..  and believe me when I say that its a noise you NEVER want to hear coming out of the mechanical box that houses all of your important technological stuff.

Tech Support (aka. my husband) says that my second hard drive (the one that he installed in my computer to house all of the “important” stuff that I didn’t want to lose like photos, purchased knitting pattern pdf files, shop stuff…) had burned out and burned up (literally.. there were black marks on it) sometime during the night.  Apparently the data is GONE…  he tried everything he could think of including putting the hard drive into its own external kit and plugging it in, but its just too far gone.   I haven’t had a working DVD drive for some time now and never was able to offload any of my photos anywhere… which means that 3 years worth (give or take) of photos are now GONE.  I can’t even begin to think about what else was on that drive.

If you need me… I’ll be under my bed with my teddybear.