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My laptop is now back in my hands with, apparently, all files intact. I hope to get back to writing, although I now have a new outside contract to complete before I have much writing time. I hope to have the next chapter of Beth up by the end of next week. Thanks to all that have written with encouragement during this incredibly stressful month of not having my life's work available to me.

To those that have suggested backups, I reply that I have had two external hard drives (of reputable manufacturers) fail on me in the past five years, and have lost an incredible amount of important files and documents to those failures, thus am gun shy. This experience has pointed out that I need to do something, but I don't, yet, know what that will be.

My laptop problem has become a fiasco. It is still at Dell and may need to take another round trip so that I don't lose all my documents. I know not how long this will take, but it's already been a month!

A new first for me in computer disasters: I've broken my screen when I tripped over it last night. I don't know how long getting a replacement will take, as I've no experience with such. Thankfully, I got Ch 87 uploaded before that.

is in the queue. Nothing at all critical, just some further elucidation of a problem.

... is in the queue. I wanted to get that one up, as the three-day sleepover is next, and that's going to take some writing time. Somewhat unfortunate for that need for writing time, a good friend is visiting for a few days and that will chew up what free time I have from work. So, just a warning that Chapter 87 may be a little while. Hopefully, it will be worth the wait.