Had a nasty moment this afternoon that made me break out into a cold sweat. I've been merrily chugging along over the past couple of days writing up some notes on my laptop that I put together on pseudepigraphical OT apocalyptic literature and its apparent impact on Paul's thinking and language. When I went out to pick the boy up from school, I put it into sleep mode and, on my return tried to start up Word again. Locked up, no response. Task manager availed nothing so I pressed the 'off' button. It went off all right, but wouldn't turn back on: not even a flicker. Nasty sweaty moment ensued followed by lots of hand-wringing (luckily I'd saved my work onto a USB key before I went out, but all my most useful stuff is on that computer). It was the boy who pointed out that it was actually on at the box, even though nothing was happening. I took out the battery, replaced it then held the on button down for some twenty or so seconds and - it turned OFF! So I then turned it back on and every thing went back to normal. Not sure if it's got something to do with the Windows updates that it took upon itself to install yesterday. I shall be monitoring things carefully, and may do a system restore if it plays up again. it's not the first time a vaunted improvement has caused havoc.
But in the horrible moment when I thought that it had died permanently, I was so, so very glad that I'd had the presence of mind to back up my current document. Let that be a lesson to me.
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