Sounds of a moribund hard disc

chrr....chrr...beep...chrrr...bip....bip....chrrr

Telling from the sounds my computer's hard disc is making right now, it is going to die in the very near future...

So, if this place will be silent again for a couple of days, this time, I might have a good excuse.

Shorter!

That doesn't come exactly as a big surprise:

YOU ARE...

1.7 in. SHORTER THAN THE AVG. GERMAN

1.5 in. SHORTER THAN THE AVG. AMERICAN

I know. I KNOW! (Chagrin of my life. Okay, one of the chagrins.)