I finally found my missing USB device just as I'd begun to think I'd never see it again. Of course I was very quick to back up my story in about four different places and combine my work with the parts I'd written in its absence. It also gave me renewed enthusiasm and my first draft (minus the epilogue that will be probably 20 times longer than any epilogue really should be) is pretty much complete.
So I'm through with my sulking and back to flexing my writing muscles...
