Dead or Just Resting?

I am pretty good at meeting deadlines. Sometimes things slip, for good reasons or for pure laziness. Not often. So why no blog last week when I am making a bold effort to put something up every Monday?
On Sunday afternoon when I was getting ready to print a piece I needed for Monday evening, my beloved computer put up a blue screen that said “DO SOMETHING!” Before I could, it turned up its toes, eating the piece that I needed for the next day. Three cheers for the fact that I learned early in my career as a writer to back things up. I lost three chapters of a novel by using two not quite compatible computers. I could move the disk from one to the other about five times before it crashed and I had to toss the disk. Then there was the time it crashed at four rotations and neither computer had a copy of the full work. I lost three chapters. They were easy enough to rewrite, but I didn’t want to spend my time rewriting.
Everything on my current computer was backed up except for a few paragraphs.
I took it to the local computer guru and said “It’s dead.” He said, “No it’s just resting,” and fixed it in about five minutes. I was without a computer for less than a week, but now I am behind in everything.
And I missed my Monday blog deadlines.