It’s enough to make a person turn to diet pills. Or not. The point is, I had to wipe me entire hard drive and do a complete system restore over the weekend. It wasn’t a hard drive failure, this time; just some sort of corrupted system file that was serious enough to require a complete system restore.

Fortunately, my novel’s intact thanks to a very reliable 2GB flash drive. But I’m starting to have some serious hate-on for Windows Vista since it seems like I lose everything on my hard drive about every six months since I made the switch to Vista. So now I can’t wait for System 7, which had BETTER fix all this crap.

I did lose a fair amount of data, but nothing critical this time; I am now more committed than ever, though, to buying a second hard drive that will ghost the content of my primary drive.