I am sitting at Apple Care with a dead laptop.  My only laptop.  My only computer.  All evidence suggests a dead hard-drive, but hope springs eternal and I won’t cry until my personal Apple genius looks me in the eye and tells me it’s over.   Four minutes til my appointment.

***Update: My hard drive had some file corruption but no reported failures.   Nevertheless, I added 1TB to my storage arsenal bringing my total external hard drive space to 1,750 GB, plus another two free GBs from soonr.com, you know, just in case.  I spent 12 hours today between the Apple Genius Bar, choosing which kick-ass external hard drive would be my back up puppy, and then setting up some various back up solutions.  I already had the most important stuff backed up, but holy heck, you don’t know terror until you’re staring a potential hard drive failure in the eye.

So, all that to say that the new 100 Word challenge will be up by tomorrow night.  I’m reading a great book so I’ve been excited all week to choose a word from it.

In the meantime, why don’t you spend this unexpected free time backing up your hard drive like your Mama told you, eh?