OK so I had a supremely shitty day at the day job & I came home & thought to myself "at least I get to write the Last Plane to Jakarta update tonight, maybe it'll be good & thereby rescue this otherwise unrescuable day" and so I picked a song from which to springboard (Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up," if you want to know) and I was really running well with it, doing the sort of stuff I like to do and then the iBook crashes.
This has never happened before.
Twenty minutes later and we can't get the hard drive to start no matter what we do. We are screwed. I keep skipping updates because of all the touring I've had to do lately, which makes me feel bad because the LPTJ weekly update is one of two constants in my life, the other being my wife, and I was really really happy with the shape this week's piece was taking and now it's gone.
Can someone please comfort me, perhaps with recent stories of computer crashes eating vital documents? I know that in the grand scale of things my problem is small but I am really stressed lately and this particular event is gnawing at me like Bukowski's "shoelace that breaks with no time left"
― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Monday, 2 December 2002 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)