So… got in last night and went to check my email. My nifty 11 month old Powerbook decided not to come back from sleep. I rebooted.

Nothing.

Spent about six hours trying to get it to boot.

Nothing.

Took it to TekServe, the Mac speciality place downtown… they mentioned the words "Data Recovery" and "Crashed Hard Drive" and "Eight hundred dollars."

Gave them my credit card.

Went out to my car.

Didn’t start.

Called AAA.

It started to POUR.

AAA came.

My car started without the jump… after getting soaked talking to the AAA guy.

Went home.

Took an hour to go from 23rd St. to 181st.

Grumpy.