Glamdring back in hand

After a few days in the shop, my computer is back. They fixed the white spots on my LCD by giving me a new LCD. They also did a couple of things that Ben at the Genius Bar wrote on the work order, even though I hadn't complained about them, such as replacing the keyboard and fixing the broken lid hinge. They even installed a new optical drive, even though neither me nor Genius Ben had noticed anything wrong with the optical drive. And as for the hard drive, they took it out and shot it and put in a new one.

Which means that, if I hadn't been able to start my machine in Target mode and back up my data, I would be sobbing big sobs of sobbing sadness right now.

As Jed says, it's back up time.

And this would have cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars if I didn't still have Apple Care on this machine. (If you have a Mac, I really, strongly recommend investing in Apple Care before your warranty expires.)

So, it's kinda weird. It's my computer, only not. The keys feel weird, probably because I haven't worn them down to a gloss yet. But considering how bad this could have been, I'm not complaining.

Or, rather, I'm going to stop complaining.