Mercury Strikes Again

Mercury is in retrograde again.  "Mercury the wise communicator—and universal trickster—turns retrograde... sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general snarlup!"  It's supposed to last from August 3rd to the 26th.  I can attest to the fact.  My computer died on the 8th. Of course I hadn't backed anything up for ages.  The computer itself (ie the motherboard) is fine - it's the hd that died.  I've sent it out for data recovery.  The manufacturer is going to replace the hd (it's still under warranty thank goodness).  Unfortunately, all this work will take time.  Until then, all I've got is my old laptop which runs at a snail's pace, and this little notebook I'm typing on now.  It has a keyboard barely bigger than the one on my phone.  Doesn't have a slot for my camera's memory card, and even if it did I don't have any photo software on it to crop pictures for example.  So I probably won't be posting here much for a few weeks at least.  Damn Mercury anyway... :P