My computer will not be ready today, and most likely even tomorrow. The techs at Apple partitioned my hard drive the other day to check for malfunctions,  and couldn’t get the partition undone so my memory is all gone, and  a wizard tech from Vermont is going to take a whack at it in the morning.

Looks like all of my stuff was backed up and saved, so nothing should be lost.

My new chapters were also saved, I believe,  although I won’t  have access to them at least until Monday. I might need a new computer if they can’t sort this out, but I hope not. It could certainly be worse.

(I loved the light this morning, the rising sun just lit up the frost in the pasture.)

I’ve patched up Maria’s old laptop and I can blog from it, although it is slow and grumpy. Vintage, they call it. So my weekend will be different – no book work. Maybe next week, if the de-partitioning goes well. My instinct is write a cold chapter on Maria’s computer if I can find Microsoft Word, which doesn’t seem to be there.

Today, I want to put up some photos and I have this itch to go see Batman the Lego movie, I liked the last one. In my other life, when I got lonely or sad,I always went to the movies on Friday afternoon, so maybe I  am lonely and don’t quite realize it.

I’m not sure what happened but I got some mail mail when I started writing about immigration, and a few threats, and the techs found some malware in the system when they started checking it. It seems hardly imaginable that helping refugee children would be controversial but this is America in 2017, so everything is controversial.

Of all the things I’ve written about, sending donations to children in need of blankets and toothpaste was, in my mind, the least controversial thing I’ve ever written.

(Oh, and just so you know, your voluntary payments and monthly support are on a different system, no financial information of any kind is stored on my site or on my server, my site has no access or pathway to  your money in any way.

There is no evidence that I was hacked in any way – I have two strong security systems protecting the blog  – it is possible that someone sent a hostile mail or link, or more likely, that I picked one up while browsing.

It happens. And no, I will certainly not stop writing about the refugee children. I hope things will get back to normal on Monday, although I am not sure what normal is any more.