Good things and bad things

I had a great weekend running the Maker event. At the same time, several other things went south. On Friday, as I was trying to finish up work before the Maker event, I got a call from Alisa saying that my mom had reported that something was on fire at home!!! She picked me up and we rushed home. It turned out it was my linux box: the molex-to-sata power connector had shorted out. I spent the whole rest of the weekend wondering whether any of the components had survived, but was too busy to get a replacement cable and try hooking things up. Topping everything, this morning, the washing machine overflowed and we realized the main drainpipe for the house wasn't working. We spent much of the day waiting for the tradesman to arrive and then clear the obstruction in the drain. Then I finally had time to get to the store and buy a new power adaptor for the hard-drive. After replacing that, I was pleased to find that everything else seems OK and my computer is back up. Whew.