Last-minute speech. Again.

I understand that sometimes Life Sucks and Bad Things Happen, and thus someone who was supposed to draft a speech can't do it. But shouldn't the draft speech have been completed more than TWO DAYS before the event?

I suppose while the IT guy is upgrading my work computer to XP, I'll be drafting the speech the old-fashioned way --- with pen, paper and plenty of other people's speeches to steal from. I think I still write better longhand. Too many possibilities for irrevocable deletion on the computer, whereas in longhand, you always have decipherable notes, even those with strikethrough lines running through the scribblings.