I had a render running. It tooks a day to set it up and I wanted everything from reflections to shadows and everything running at the highest quality settings.  I did a small render 300 by 300 and it seemed okay.  I increased the size to 2244 x 3176 at 300 dpi, told Poser to render and went to sleep. It ran all night and a late night/early morning check said it was about a third of the way done. The render is taking long but this is the mother of all renders. A labor of love.

The next night I wake up at 3am suddenly. I look over at the computer and someone who is quite dear to me is playing farmville.  No problem. It just means it will take a bit longer but I'll get the CPU cycles back when she finishes.  Imagine my horror when I see the Poser Icon at the bottom of the screen is gone! I haltingly ask what happened to the program I was running.

"Oh everything was sluggish. I closed it."

Tell me, my fellow rendernauts, is imploding her cells from the inside out too harsh a punishment?