FINALLY!

  I'm back.  Wow, that was stressful.  Thank God we bought that USB HDD a few weeks ago or we'd have been f*cked.  Still waiting for the XP disc that'll never come (yeah, cheers James *cough*)  All I had to do was boot into Knoppix, transfer all my important stuff to the portable drive, and use the built-in Acer D2D restore thing to restore factory settings.

  My eyes are so bad today, this is really hard!  

 Going to play with my dalek.  The bunnies didn't like him at first, but he took them Ryvita in his combat claw and now they play happily with him.  He's very good for herding them back to their room at night "You will OBEY, no other warning will be given, Daleks are the Supreme Beings!"  If they don't co-operate he exterminates them, easy really.