what a tuesday...

You know you are going to have a bad day when you go into work, turn on your MacBook that was working fine the night before, and get this for a start up screen.


Instead of the Windows "blue screen of death", it is the Mac "blinking folder and question mark of death!

Yep, apparently somewhere between when it was working fine about 1am Tuesday morning and going to work about 8:30am the same day, the hard drive just decided to die. Not exactly sure why, I guess it just didn't like me anymore.

There were just two relaxing moments though. First, when calling Apple Support, I discovered there was 300 more days of service left on it! Thank God for that! Second, with the add-in of Time Machine in OS X 10.5, I actually backed my entire hard drive up about 2 days before. Just by pure happenstance. I never, ever, backup. But I was like... 'hm.. wonder what exactly this Time Machine thing does anyway...". Well, luckily it may be my lifesaver. We will see.

So now I am without my laptop for about 4 days. Kind of feel like I am missing a leg or something! lol... But I will try to survive. Later!