The computer has crashed

Last Sunday I was listening to a podcast on my computer and was knitting for a bit before finally starting on a new update for this place. Suddenly the only thing I heard was dididididididididididididididid. The computer refused to respond to the mouse or the keyboard. My only option was to use the on/off button on the computer. Sadly it didn’t restart. It didn’t blink, hum or burp at me. Absolutely nothing. Late Sunday night it worked again. For a little bit.
Monday I bought an external hard drive, I had absolutely nothing backed up. A crashing computer sure makes a person very nervous.
I think I managed to secure all of my documents and most of my pictures. Seems that I’ve lost everything else. Stupidstupidstupid.
I took the computer to somebody who is very optimistic. He’s going to see if he can fix it or otherwise get my data off the darn thing. I hope that he managed that least that. Keeping my fingers crossed.