Catastrophic equipment failure

Have you ever done something so stupid that you almost can't live with yourself? Yesterday I was running scandisk on my computer when something happened and I got the Blue Screen of Death at startup. I fooled with it and could not get it to do anything. I put in the recovery disc and before I knew what was happening it reformatted my hard drive. I almost vomited. And here's the part that has me kicking myself -- I HAD NO BACK UP except for a dvd full of photos. For the life of me I don't know why I was operating in such a devil may care way.

Today I'm up and running and it's almost like having a new computer. No clutter. And I picked up a back up hard drive yesterday. I've recreated what I can and am just moving on.

Look at this little hard drive:

Isn't it cute?  I'm thinking of buying it some clothes. Or maybe I'll wear it around my neck like a little flash drive.

Anyway, I'm back in business and I've learned a huge lesson. Backup early and often...