OT: Words of sympathy for a fellow HSMTTer?

[Mench]

Hi Guys-

So while at home for Thanksgiving my harddrive crashed. I brought it to a computer technician who is trying to do data retrieval for me. My entire semester of thesis work is on there (college senior in architecture) and I only have some hard copies of recent drafts. I backed up my computer recently, but not recently enough.

Anyone ever been in a similar situation. Words of advice, compassion. Thanks all.

Mench