*hugs Miss Eliza II*

Don't you EVER do that again. Ever.

I'm really sorry about that whole surge protector thing. I'll get you one. Just as soon as I can find one that doesn't cost over a hundred Euros.

I'm really glad you're still functional. And I hope that the nice guy at the mac store who speaks very British English can salvage my Spain pictures from Miss Eliza I.

To sum up the computer saga

The hard drive was too dead to get anything off of it. Really all I've lost is the pictures I've taken since I got to Spain (and I have so-so to good copies of a few of them). Everything else got backed up before I left home.

What I find really annoying, though, is the fact that I will be doing without most of my iTunes library for the next three months.


. . . and Spain seems to not believe in cheap, portable surge protectors. So far everything I've seen costs between 80 and 120 euros, and is Very Large.