GOAL REACHED! I can now spring my laptop out of jail, hopefully no later than tomorrow. Thanks everybody!
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Help! I don’t know if anyone is still checking back here, but the laptop is still in the shop. I finally got a repair estimate of $500, which is for data recovery and a new hard drive. After I made some choking sounds the techie offered to look for a refurbished hard drive that would be cheaper.. Anyway if I can scrape up the money I may be able to get it back Saturday. Some of you already donated ( see donation links on the top right-hand column, home page) and I appreciate that very much. With some difficulty I also set up a go fund me page. The link below should go to it.
https://gofund.me/9dff09fe
I gotcha Maha. Check the GoFundMe. Thanks for all the wonderful writing over the years.
!!! Thank you !!!
Hang in there, Barbara. I'm so grateful that you subscribe to all those things that I can't. Your writings and reading suggestions are a big help to me, along with the welcome commenters.
You're lucky you paid before Laptop Jail transferred all operations to El Salvador. You'd never have seen it again.
Lurker here. I've depended on your insights for many years and I hope my measly contribution to the bail for the laptop helped. Keep up the great work, please!
Do not miss Maureen Dowd today in the NYT.
That your tease.
A man was arrested for menacing some anti-musk protesters in upstate NY:
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/police-arrest-man-for-reportedly-wielding-chainsaw-at-glens-falls-protest