A bit of a scare

Roughly 40 minutes into the recording of episode 13, Jen's laptop went into hibernation. This of course freaked me out, because we don't save our progress as we record. No. A save file is made only once we've completed recording.

It took me all of ten very panicked seconds to realize why her machine went into the aforementioned mode — I had unplugged it from the wall Friday night so I could charge my Nintendo DS as I played Mario Kart DS, and Jen, not knowing that it was the then-fully charged battery that was supplying power to her computer, used her laptop for an extended period earlier today — before I hurriedly corrected the problem by plugging the computer back in.

As the curses boiled from my tightly clenched lips, I glared at the computer screen waiting to see if we lost the file. Had we, I have to admit, I wouldn't have rerecorded it. There's no way I would have been in the mood to do so. At least not tonight. Maybe by Monday night my anger would have subsided and we could have finished up / restarted. I don't know.

And luckily I don't have to know, because the unsaved file wasn't lost and we were able to continue from where we (unwillingly) left off. Hopefully any residual frustration doesn't come through on the show.