One down, nineteen to go...

I've completed the first chapter of my novel. It's 5,500 words long, and represents about one twentieth of the total novel length. I'm very happy with the story structure overall, and quite pleased with most of what I've written.

Now on to chapter 2, which should be interesting because it contains no human characters whatsoever.

Hopefully tonight I'll finally crack getting data off the Psion, because it's getting to the point where I'll be truly screwed if anything happens to it.

Grrrrr!

Microsoft Word has just pissed me off. I noticed the table of contents in the document was out of date, so I right-clicked it to update. Crash!

I tried opening the document again, and was told it's in use by another user (despite being on my local drive). No sign of the recovery options. I'm about to reboot, which should get rid of the in use error, and maybe, just maybe, bring back the auto-recover version. But my hopes aren't high. I've probably lost about two hours work.

Please don't tell me how fab and groovy OpenOffice is. I know already, but I really can't install it at work. I expect it would work fine, but if there was ever a problem with one of my documents, the immediate response would be "why aren't you using the group standard?"