Ok – my laptop is not looking as bad as the pic – but it has stopped working. It decided to walk out and leave me on saturday afternoon, just after I had the odd thought to back up my assignments on my pen drive.

The shell is there, it looks the same, the noises are the same … but she has gone and left me! I push the power button and she talks of hard drive failure. I try to boot form the windows disc and she sighs at my stupidity. There is no more windows, no more outlook, no more work!

At the moment we are attempting to repair the hard drive – so we will see what happens, but its a very slow process … 3 and a half hours in and we are 58% complete. That’s an interesting thought.

It just seems that my forces slowing down to reflect is going to continue.