Panic Attack!..

But it's over now.

A couple of hours ago I've decided to update the Workstation's system drivers, and - against everything I've been teaching my students for years - the BIOS, as well. Even though you should never do that mid project, unless you bucked up all your hard drives - especially the striped sets!

And I forgot that Saving Paula resides on a striped set (twice the read/write speed), and that the entire new update, which renders are all but finished, isn't bucked up yet...

Now, after the reboot, guess which drives didn't show up on windows?..

Well, I (apparently) have been lucky, and after manual driver installs managed to see the discs again, not before feeling the icy fingers of doom close on my heart, and of course bucked everything up on two different drives, one of them external.

This time, I didn't pay for my stupidity more than with a couple of new gray hairs.