Laptop update

Well, I have some good and bad news regarding the laptop. The good new is that the hard drive is intact so we are able to recover the photos and the documents.  The bad new is that the laptop, at this point, doesn't look like it's repairable.   However, the new laptop will be here this weekend.  It definitely has taught me a lesson - back it up to the portable hard-drive, burn a copy to CD and back it up on our google storage.  Looks like I have a long process to do that, given that there's about 12 years worth of photos on the hard drive.