because apparently what I really needed was something justifiable to be upset about

So I took my computer in to get fixed in a hurry, because I didn't want the monitor to break or anything. And I didn't think of backing it up until after I got home again. And the guy in the apple store who processed my request (which said on the repair request sticker on the outside of the computer: "broken hinge") didn't bother to ask me if I wanted to back it up first, which apparently they do in-house (I didn't know that before either)

And the --- [rat bastards? was that it?]-- decided that for some unspecified (literally) reason of their own the hard drive needed to be replaced. And they took it out, and threw it away.

the last back-up was at the end of last october.

I have just lost one and a half novels, all my e-mail and contact info from the last 11 months, most recent resume with contact info for two employers, most of the working copies of the music I was recording, a great deal (I'm not even sure what yet) of the music I had in iTunes, goodness knows what all junk I was working on in my website folder... and I won't remember what else until I'm looking for things I don't have anymore. And I can't even re-install the latest system because I don't have the system disks for X.3, and X.4 won't install without it. Um, yeah. I'm going to go cry myself to sleep now...