When the world goes blank

I had one of those, 'oh shit' moments on Tuesday night. Doubly since I also had food poisoning. But the main catastrophe was my laptop dying. One minute it was working fine, the next the screen was blank. It seems my harddrive has been fried, probably by a power spike (according to a computing professor I was with yesterday). Thankfully I backed up on Friday before travelling, but I've lost most stuff I've done on the road. The big issue is I'll be without a computer for the next few days, except when I can borrow one. Probably not a bad thing. More reading, less writing. I'm on a bit of a binge at the minute - I've read four novels since leaving Ireland on Friday. Heaven knows when the reviews will follow.