Don't you reboot every night? :)

Pffft and lose all my tabs!

Seriously, at this point I have multiple browsers open, multiple tabs, multiple programs split over multiple desktops with my workflows.

But more seriously an encrypted drive that has a lot of data on it that I've forgotten the password for, and can't remember the system I used to encrypt it / set it up, and figuring out how to change it is always pushed to future LandRs problem. A restart and I'm screwed!

I'd basically just give up and go live in the woods.

I know that feeling. I've got an old mac mini in a remote server room, with limited on-site access. It's been up for 2.5 years, going through various ubuntu releases and upgrades. I'm afraid to reboot it because it initially had a strange boot setup, and there's been enough changes now that I'm not sure it'll come back up. So I keep delaying the inevitable, and hope it'll last until I need to get a new machine :)

There are companies in that situation too. They live in perpetual fear of power failure or hardware crashes. It's exactly the sort of thing we're on the lookout for during technical due diligence. Anything that you are afraid of rebooting is a risk that needs mitigation while the system is still up and running.

Reminds me of this http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Trauma-Center

Sleep mode only, a reboot wipes all volatile memory :P