(NOTE: This is basically a longer version of my status from yesterday.)

So...yesterday, the motherboard on the laptop that I've had for nearly 3 years decided that then was the perfect time to quit functioning. What's weird about that is, it was working for about an hour that morning, before I put it into "sleep" mode for a little while. 3 hours later...it starts acting like it wants to turn on, but it won't. Nothing that I'm able to do makes any difference.

I take it over to a friend of my brother's, who's basically a whiz on all things computer - where I received the Diagnosis: Motherboard. We weren't able to open it up completely for a full look at it, but he explained to me what had happened. Luckily, the hard drive had nothing wrong with it, so he was able to get it out of the laptop and connect it to his own computer (told you the guy was a computer whiz ) so I could recover everything that I wanted off of it (put onto an external drive that I also have).

Long story short: I won't be able to do much besides log onto the site via my phone (or a public computer, like in the case of right now) and post, until I can procure a replacement computer. That might be a few days, or more than a few - I just don't know for sure.

Not-so-digitally yours for a while,

Mike