Good news:  I have a substitute laptop!  (My Beast is headed for a service warehouse to have the entire keyboard replaced, because apparently I have madly abused it.)<br/><br/>Bad news:    It's going to be 2-4 weeks to get my Beast back, and the substitute is slower than molasses.  I'm still grateful to have it, and I'll be writing posts sporadically as I can, but I spent most of the afternoon doing software updates and trying not to take a hammer to McAfee.  (Thank you McAfee, I really do appreciate how you like to cover 1/3 of the screen every time you have an update for me, and PARTICULARLY how the 'never show me this again' secretly means 'please wait five minutes to show me this again.')  It seems to be running smoother than it was this afternoon, when I was ready to gnaw off my fingernails and toenails.  So I will be here, and posting, albeit a little slower than normal.<br/><br/>Right now, I know I owe a post to Niferbelle, esclavage, and Strangefate.  Is there anyone else I'm missing at present?