"consumer electronics"

My PC acted up this morning in exactly the same way it did when it crashed a few months ago.

I was getting dressed in the living room and looking at the screen from a distance, and suddenly it clicked off and rebooted with no prompting. The "system needs to do a disk check - ok?" dialog came up. Remembering that once I let it go ahead with that last time, it never booted again, I hit no, waited for it to boot, and powered down.

Last time it got into a cycle of saying it needed to scan the disk, and whether I said yes or no, booting was halted and it would try again. It wouldn't even boot in safe mode. I had to wipe the partition and start from scratch. I really don't want to have to do that again.

The only change I've made recently is that I downloaded and installed MusicMatch last night, but I rebooted after I did that, and it seemed fine. I ripped some CDs, but there's no reason a bunch of MP3s would kill the machine... is there?

enforced breaks...

The system seems to be down, and I can't do anything till it comes back... which means I can take a bit of a break from pricing sheets. I've been working on them nonstop since 7:30 this morning. I have two mostly done and I was about to start on the third.

I was wondering why I was hungry a few minutes ago, and it's because my breakfast was still sitting here untouched. :)

Good retail therapy this weekend: Generation Records - Neuroticfish, Mesh and the Floyd Remixes that Matt mentioned. It made up for not finding dishes.

I didn't watch that 9/11 documentary last night, but I taped it. I'll save it to watch when I'm feeling up to it. I have more of my own words to say about that day, but now isn't the time. I'm still too busy surviving to be able to slow down and deal with it.