I just had to do do the Happy Nekkie Pagan Snoopy Dance!
Why you might ask??? It's because I finally have my "beast" back up and working with a new power supply and have all my programs back and in working order. I have been using a bare bones old computer I revived from the graveyard (seasonally appropriate wouldn't you say?) that was a bit quirky and limited my computer abilities. Not that it stopped me much, but it was difficult trying to convert text and graphics and I learned a very valuable lesson... BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! I had all my music, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, graphics etc... on 4 hard drives all in one non-functional computer. Talk about losing something valuable! Much of what is stored is not replaceable and now I have duplicates, if not triplicates of saved data on a variety of media.
So now that all is well and good here in my geek world, one word of advice...
BACKUP!
*giggles and dancing*