it has been.

My computer died Wednesday morning.

NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My computer in work holds all the Company accounts, payable and receivable, copies of all quotations sent out, details of all legal happenings, vehicle details and problems etc, and just about everything else you can think of and it died.

The computer man came in that afternoon when he was finished with his morning call-out and hooked my dead computer up to his wee mini computer thingy to see what it said. Nothing strange or startling came up but the computer still wouldn't turn on. I was told two things either it was a computer problem and all my work would be safe and he could restore it all to another computer or else it was a hardware problem and that meant there was a brilliant chance of losing everything and never getting it back.

The computer man wasn't hopeful.

His plan was to put the hardware into the freezer for 24 hours and then pull it out and stick it into a clean machine to see if he could read what was there, if that didn't work then he'd put it back into the freezer for another 72 hours and try again, if after that it didn't work then I'd never get my work back, it would be lose forever.

Spent the rest of the day doing my best not to bawl my eyes out because I just couldn't imagine what my Big Boss would do when he found out but he was actually ok about everything, not expected at all but as he said no point worrying about until we know what was happening.

I got a text message at teatime telling me that everything is ok. I started crying when I read it was just so relieved!

It was the computer that had died and not the hardware. Thank goodness for that.

A new computer has been ordered and should arrive tomorrow with any luck and then the computer guy will be in the office in the afternoon to put all my stuff onto it and reload sage, emails and everything like that so I can be up and running again by Tuesday at the latest.

It's definately been one of the worse weeks in work for me since I started 5 years ago, and it's not a week I want to repeat.

Though my important bits are backed up regularly nothing else is, but I've bought loads of disks and I'm going to back up every little bit of info that's on my computer whether I think I'll need it or not. I'm not going to take any chances whatsoever from now on.

Could really hate computers sometimes ya know?