Today shall forever be known in infamy as Hell Day. Come to think of it, it's Friday the 13th, which would explain a lot.

All of the day was spent in preparation for the big move. I'd already packed most of my stuff, aside from my PC and whatever crap I needed to do my job, but there was still stuff around the office that needed packing and labelling and moving. There was also garbage to be tossed out, and other people to help.

Around noon, my PC began stuttering. I switched it off. I switched it on. It now refused to boot, or to even recognise the fact that I'm running Windows 2000. And with the network department busy, there was no one to assist. I was forced to surrender.

Long story short, it appears that both my hard-disks are shot. This sort of stuff happens to me often, and I always lose so much work. There are tons of documents, e-mails, pictures, and private files -- including MP3s -- that I have no backups of anywhere. I backed up my mail a few weeks ago, but everything I've received since then, including mail I retrieved from the server this morning, is dead, kaput, gone (so resend it, if there's anything important). Worst of all, the documents I've been working on lately have all been wiped.

Ggggggggggk!

Yeah, yeah; I know. I should do backups more often, but it's so easy to forget. Thing is, I've lost at least five hard-disks at work through simple misfortune. They've just died on me. I've never had that problem on any non-work PCs. And no one else at the office has been as unlucky as me. Me and HDs don't get along. I don't even do anything to them. It happens between the switching off and the switching on. It's bloody frustrating, mate.

Oh well. There's no point spending the weekend worrying about it, even though I've lost weeks of work. There's nothing to be done until Monday, and I'm sure things are going to be quite chaotic at work the first couple of days. Maybe, hopefully, there's some way to fix the disks. I'm just praying my PC and all my boxes filled with useless junk find their way to my new office without being subjected to some horrifying accident.

At least I got my copy of Buffy for the Xbox today. Yay! Can't wait to play it. I paid an arm and a leg for it, so it'd better be damn, damn good.  ¶ 17:44