Not only has the ‘net connection been working reliably since my last post, but I picked my laptop up from the shop this afternoon. It’s got a shiny new keyboard, a new optical drive, and it appears to be working just fine.

For the last week I’ve been using the kids’ eMac (that’s one step down from an iMac), using my external backup drive as the boot disk. That works, but in order to preserve my backup I’ve been avoiding saving anything to disk as much as possible. That, fortunately, is no longer an issue…which means that, at long last, I am able to download the pictures I took during our vacation. Approximately 400 of them, which will probably be winnowed down to 150 or so. I’ve been eager to get to it, but haven’t been able. It also means that I should be able to write a book review or too, so expect a burst of activity this weekend (it’s certainly going to be too hot to do much of anything else!).