Bad planetary alignment?

Boy, today has been a not-good day. Actually, it's been a not-good week, but today was the kicker.

Toys's computer is in death mode. We've saved information, but rescuitation efforts are so far going nowhere. Which makes the laptop I'm writing on the only workable machine in the house, which he'll be needing it for classwork.

I'll probably offline a lot for the foreseeable future.