Catastrophic failure

[peppermintesse]

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?)

Comments

well dang. . .

[dinda.livejournal.com]

I just had a 250 gb external hard drive fail! It's not completely dead and I can see the data is there it's just not cooperating with moving it anywhere else; mac or pc. I'm going to try putting it in another case this afternoon and pray it works or else it will have to go off to the really expensive drive recovery folks b/c this one has some critical data on it.

mercury retrograde?

Re: well dang. . .

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

Nope, the next period isn't until the end of October:

"October 28, 2006 Mercury turns retrograde at 25° Scorpio
November 18, 2006 Mercury turns direct at 9° Scorpio" (Great, during my birthday)

...So we can't blame that.

I really hope your drive isn't dead dead!!