Well here I sit in at the PHL Airport waiting on my flight to New Hampshire and silently hoping to my self for a better work day than yesterday’s. So far the signs are pointing to a better day, no traffic on the way here, no hold ups at security and when I checked in last night, I was the only person in my row.

However yesterday was not good. It started off okay, but went to hell in a handbasket when right in the middle of searching for tickets to my next class, my Dell laptop started to get really slow. I wonedered what was wrong and tried to bring up Task Manager, and when I did, I got a blue screen and a stop error. The PC rebooted and reported in sad white DOS text… Disc read error… press Ctrl + Alt + Del to continue. Continue? That’s kinda an error that you can’t continue past.

I was in a panic, not only did I do a bunch of work on Friday that hadn’t gotten backed up yet, but I had to go to a customer site the next morning. A call to support led to a call to Dell, which lead to a yes it is dead, yes it will be there tomorrow. However that doesn’t help me as *I* won’t be here tomorrow. Do they have a spare drive they can do for me now? No. A loaner? No. Any solution? Nope, we don’t care that you need your equipment to make money for the company tomorrow…deal.

So I have lost my files and I have no way to present my materials. Well thank goodness I have a MacBook. I loaded XP on Boot Camp, and copied my files from my backup drive and I’m sorta ready to go… but that took up most of my evening to set it up.

Well while writing this post, a co-worker called to tell me Dell sent the HD to my desk, not IT. Grrr…