Well, that was stupid. Testing a floppy for work which copies one hard disk to another (useful for recertifying a PC in the field) it started to copy my second disk to my first. Now that wouldbt be a problem, but my home PC is not a CE PC.

The upshot is, I'm offline and have been since about 7pm Monday night. After some jiggery pokery using TestDisk, PartitionMagic and Bootmaster (to provide some basic info but actually I could have gotten away with just TestDisk & PM) it turns out i've lost my C drive. For normal people, this would be a major problem. However, not this time for me as I'd planned ahead a bit (not enough to actually have a backup, though!) and C only had the operating system. Pagefile, profile, programs and anything else were on other partitions. So other than the rigmarole of reinstalling everything it's all there. I think. Warthog (my PC) is currently installing W2k.

So far I've spent/wasted about 5 hours on this, though for one of those I went to Argos, so I don't think it really counts. I could have done it quicker if I'd not hesitated earlier trying to get everything back.

On work side, I'm working nights. Sucky sucky. Though apparently a cheque for my outstanding expenses is now available, even though it was stated on Friday that a transfer would happen on Monday. The 'transfer' being a cheque in the post, to the office. Typical. Like I get there nowadays. And don't mention the phone calls at 9:40.

The one good thing about working nights is you get some daytime, free. Afternoons, though after about 5 hours sleep and what feels like a large amount of a mountain in my right eye mitigate this a little.

I'm strangely not sleepy. Tired, yes, but not sleepy. Hungry too. Shame it's not possible to fix both at the same time, it would be great. Trouble is, how would you know when to stop eating if you are asleep?