What happens when your computer crashes?

I'll tell you what happens when my computer crashes. Work becomes very hard. The things that used to be easy to do - look up a stored proc, read a quick snippet from a document I wrote in 2005, email someone whose email address I don't have stored in my brain - become acts of God to get done. For two weeks I endured life without VPN. And for three weeks I pretended to be a Systems Analyst without SQL Server. Ha!

Needless to say, during those three weeks the LAST thing I wanted to do when I got off work was to look at the computer! I didn't want to blog! Everything was harder to do when I didn't have a trusty laptop by my side.


This was my computer screen on June 14th. Yikes!

Thankfully the good folks at the helpdesk were able to get it fixed. Yes, I sometimes blog using my work laptop. No, I don't save my photos to the laptop. I use picasa. Thank goodness. Because that means my photos didn't get eaten by the hard drive killer monster.

I am back up with a rebuilt laptop, VPN, and SQL Server. And I'm ready to blog. I have a lot to say! I'll be in Oxford this week (leaving today), so hopefully during my down time I can do a few posts this week to catch everyone up.

The Garden Blog is Back!