Hi everyone, just a heads up that my laptop has died a true death, and until I fix it or replace it, I won't really have any opportunity to write. No idea what the ETA will be on that, but it really depends on my finances. Sorry for the unfortunate news everyone, trust me, no one is more disappointed by the death of my laptop (which my wife calls my mistress) than I am.

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  There's a 500 character minimum, but I've said my piece, so I'm just going to try to fill as much space as possible here with one run-on sentence that will hopefully boost me past that line because I'm generally out of things to say, and I'm not really feeling up to being overly witty.