When all else fails...read the manual

I set up my drum kit at home to sketch out some preliminary ideas for the percussion part of my audio. I set up the ZOOM recorder that I was using. The red light was flashing so I thought it was fine to go ahead and play. So I played for ten mins or so with lots of ideas coming out on the fly. I brought the recorder to the computer only to realise that I had only primed the mike and not actually started it recording. Sometimes it just pays to read the manual. I'll try again tomorrow :-( I would try again but once you've played all your ideas and tried everything its hard to go back and do it all again.