Catastrophic failure

1.) Last night, as I was preparing to take a shower, I felt a fine mist of water coming up over the top of the shower curtain. "That's not right," thought I, having just deposited my glasses by the side of the sink and preparing to step in. I pulled aside the shower curtain nearest the water controls, and I could barely make out water streaming sideways from where the showerhead and hose meet (it was one of those handheld showerheads -- something like this, only much lower end). I reached for the thing only to have it fall off in my hand -- and to see a plume of water aimed straight up out of the hose that was left behind.

I could only laugh, half-covered with water, because really, what else could I do? I guess the ol' showerhead (which was in desperate need of replacement anyway) couldn't handle the pressure. Literally. The water pressure seems to be a little higher here.

2.) My SuperDrive is suddenly no longer accepting discs. It's like there's no power to the drive at all. WTF??? (I just rebooted. Maybe rebooting again will help?)

Failure update

Well, after a reboot, the SuperDrive is working again. Go figure.