Dumb is as dumb does
Bit busy today, so a quickie.

I've got a new PC - nice one, good spec and cheap. I also have a few Deacon Blue albums in mp3 that I wanted to burn onto a CD this morning to listen to in the car (Yup, car CD player plays mp3 - woot!). So, said mp3 files were on the laptop, which was all connected up and raring to go. Laptop has a CD writer, so all is well. Now, new PC has a new writer drive, so is super fast for writing CDs, but I hadn't really tried it. Solution - burn CD on new PC with network link to laptop to get files.
The burn was going well, 450MB and estimating 5 mins - so I thought I'd tidy up the house a bit before work. There were a few things lying around in the living room, so I put them away. The laptop was sitting in the middle of the floor, with the power cable trailed across the floor. I was debating whether to reroute the cable when I figured that I wasn't using the laptop anyway, so could just put it away in the bag, nice and tidy like. So, did all that, then went back to see how the burn was going. The dam thing had failed half way through and eject the useless disk. Dammit. As I clicked on the shared drive to restart the burn I noticed that an error appeared, the network had gone down. So, I walked through to check the status of the laptop. Realization dawns like a thick treacle over your brain sometimes, doesn't it?