In which my heart is breaking.

Yesterday I was groovin’ to my iPod and though I saw that the battery was in the red, I just let it play until the battery died.

Then I plugged it into my laptop with its USB cable…

Now it won’t boot up. I let it charge for three hours, took it off the cable, and tried to restart it. The hard drive clicks, but it only gets as far as the Apple screen and no farther. After awhile the backlight goes off. When I reconnect it to the USB cable, it gives me the “battery very low” message for awhile, then tries to boot and hangs.

I let it charge all night. When I tried to wake it up this morning, no joy.

I’ve brought it to work with me and have it plugged in to my work tower’s USB port. It seems to have finally charged enough to boot all the way up. God, I hope it’s okay because I really don’t have a very good backup of my music library. I mean, I have all the files, but they’re spread out all over the goddamned place and it would not be easy to reformat a new MP3 player.

Update: Charging the thing on my work tower worked! MY IPOD BOOTS UP AGAIN! I AM SO RELIEVED! I probably should have rebooted the laptop before panicking.