HEATED! LIVID! FURIOUS! VEXED!

HEATED! LIVID! FURIOUS! VEXED! An electric fuse blew. Lights went out. TV cut off. Music stopped. Music stopped for good. Music is all gone because the momentary disruption disconnected my computer's external hard drive, where I kept all my MP3s. 25 gigs. Two weeks worth of music. So like if you started at the top of my iTunes list and hit play, it would take two weeks for each song to play once. That's a lot of music: long versions, rare versions, import versions, banned versions. The damn hard drive had been improperly disconnected before yet always came back to life with everything intact. Not this time. No iPod. No backup. This thing was the backup. No backup backup. But some stuff is on my laptop, some is on my neighbors drive, some still on CD. I can get some stuff back but not all, maybe half. So this genuinely sucks. I am officially pissed! Ironically, I'd just been telling my cousin about the time, way back in Atlanta, when my house got robbed. They only stole music, CDs and tapes back then. I came home and found my window forced open, dirty footprints, my whole tapecase gone and CD stack too. Come to think of it, that was exactly a decade ago. Around this time of year in '94. Ten years from now I'll be fullproof. This can't happen again. So I'm starting all over. My cousin is in town with the Stevie Wonder box set and a bunch of Jay-Z. Not a bad start.