The bad news: on Friday morning, as I was sipping my morning coffee and reading my guild forums, my hard drive died. I noticed that everything was quickly becoming less and less responsive, so I tried to reboot, and the poor little drive just didn’t manage to spin up again. For those of you playing along at home, this is indeed the second hard drive failure I’ve had recently - this time it was my internal drive rather than the external one I use for backups.

Luckily, I did have a backup, and it wasn’t a total shock, as the drive had been making upsetting noises for the past week or so. So after a trip to CompUSA and a little tinkering, we started restoring everything and had the machine in more or less working condition in time for Molten Core on Friday night. There are still a few things I need to deal with - applications that need to be reinstalled, some configuration I haven’t gotten around to, etc - but it’s largely thanks to my own Chris that things are back in action so quickly. He is pretty much the best boyfriend a geeky girl could ever have.

The good news is that I saw Bauhaus last night, and it was an incredible show. What’s especially cool is that this Bauhaus tour is taking advantage of the evil incarnate that is Clearchannel to produce instant live CDs at some venues, including the one I was at. So this morning I got to listen to a very high quality recording of last night’s show over my hangover breakfast special (strong coffee and rye toast). I went to the show with Al, though I also ran into a bunch of old friends who (like me) can pretty much only be dragged out for concerts these days. We considered heading to Batcave afterwards but ended up settling on a bar nearby for a couple post-show cocktails before heading home. All in all it was a pretty great night, and I’d strongly recommend that you get Bauhaus tickets if they’re coming anywhere near you this tour.