Unscheduled downtime

Last night, my hard drive started making some unpleasant noises (click-of-death-ish). So I backed up my C and Obj-C programs (annoying my dad, who wanted to watch NCIS during that time). They resumed with renewed vigor tonight, so I'm now backing up everything, and today I'll be going to CompUSA to buy a new hard drive. It's more than twice as big as my current drive (250 GB rather than 120 GB), and it'll be $60 after rebate.

Preceding that will be lunch at Sizzler, and following it will be photocopying the rebate form and the receipt so we can mail the required documents to Maxtor. I don't know when I'll be back — probably a day or two.