Italian Infection

I don't know if it was the trip to Venice or my mishandling of it, but my laptop is not well. It hasn't been starting up properly the last few days so when it didn't start up fully this morning I rebooted it but then windows wouldn't start so now I am without my laptop or my work (foolishly I don't have a backup) and the even greater challenge of having to get it fixed. Hoofpot kindly let me use her laptop to write this update. Feeling rather depressed about it today.