Well, it finally happened.  My nightmare came true.  Because of a collapse and hospitalization in February from chronic kidney disease I'm a COVID-19 high risk, so this Fall I've had to teach live streaming full time from home.  My community college gave me no training nor did I get to bring my office computer home, so I'm using my personal laptop and learning live streaming on the fly.    

In class after class I've dreaded a computer crash.  Today it happened.  With 27 minutes to go in the class hour, my screen froze.  Then I heard that ugly loud buzz, and I had to turn my laptop off and on again.

When I got it back on, I returned to the live streaming meeting and my students, amazingly, were still there waiting for me 13 minutes later.  I was heartened that they still had confidence in me.  The thing it, though, that it crashed again.  By the time I got logged back on a second time, there was only time enough left in the hour to dismiss class and say we'll try again next time.

The reason I'm posting about this is that I'm stressed out worrying it will happen again while I'm officiating for my friend's live streaming funeral coming up this weekend.  I'm grateful for the support you all gave me on my thread about it last week here at DS PTSD.  Now I'm concerned as to what to do if my laptop crashes like this in the middle of the live streaming funeral for my friend.  Support welcome.