My hard drive is dying.

It says so. It is a new generation drive from Seagate that uses SMART(ass) technology to warn me that a crash is inevitable.

So far too many sectors are going bad. It's only a matter of time before the drive says ERK and dies horribly.

As soon as this happened I went into uber-geek mode and begin doing stuff like backing up and preparing for the installation of the new drive.

It is of course a huge pain in the ass. Why does my SMART(ass) technology only last two f-ing years? That's not very SMART if you ask me.

I'm treading very carefully and waiting impatiently as my SMARTass mail order parts provider takes 2 god damned weeks to deliver a simple 1 TB hard drive.

It's times like this that make me miss drinking.

At some point soon I will vanish for a while. You can be sure that I'm rebuilding my system and will be back.

As grouchy as ever. GRRRR