Technical difficulties

My darling Mac laptop has lasted me through law school, bar exam, and my first year and some change in a new place far from home. Today, after eradicating nearly all my photographs for the last several years (yes they were backed up, somehow the external hard drive is futzed too), it began to act suspiciously like a sick laptop, one that may need to be replaced.

I may not have the ability to write for a while....