Once a Day Book part 2

Alright so don't yell at me for being a total idiot but "Life the Universe and Everything" is not the next book in the "Hitchhikers" series. The next book is "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and yes I got started on that. It starts off on the star ship Heart of Gold with Zaphod Beeblebrox cursing in his room after having a conversation with the computer who, like all the machines in this series, have actual feelings and are a real pain to take care of. While that is happening Arthur is back in the bridge and is ready to finally man up and demand a cup of tea from the drink machine (whose name I stupidly forgot) instead of the unappealing drink that it handed him last time. After a while the drink machine (don't know the name!) asked the computer to help and the computer shut down in thought. A while later the Vogons, who destroyed earth, attacked them and they were helpless with the computer down. I love this writer because he just jumps right into the story. I mean he does give like a page or two (or three or four or five) about catching up with the last book, but after those like three pages (or four or five or six) he just says "Hey! Here's the story! Let's jump right into it!"