At long last

My computer is fixed and back home! Still not sure what happened. And I lost all of my pictures from November and most of December. I hadn't done a back up on my external hard drive since the end of October, so they're just gone. Very sad, but at least some of them are in here! Luckily I have a bunch of pics in my camera, so I can still post those too. There's so much to write about, so it might take a few days of catching up.