Well, I'm back. I can't believe the odds. Anyway, the story goes. . .
I have a home computer with a Mirror hard drive. It is two hard drives. As one is written to, it backs itself up to the second one. Apparently the one went down but wouldn't let me boot from the other. Have to have it looked at Monday. I'm assuming (hoping) all the data is intact on at least one of the two drives.
The 'backup' computer is my portable computer. I plugged in the wrong electrical cord/box and it wouldn't start. Tried everything. Just a half hour ago I tried something and it came to life. It seems that it 'reset' itself when I removed the battery then re-installed it.
I missed my fish more than anything! While I'm working with the computer, I look at my fish tanks.