princess lucy has the swine flu!

I have been back in the States for three days now so you're probably wondering why I still haven't written on my blog.  Well I have some very sad news.  Princess Lucy (my computer) is on her death bed so I can't access any of my pictures or my typed journal right now.  Israel didn't agree with her battery much and it is pretty much fried.  My tens of thousands of pictures were clogging her hard drive and she was almost out of memory when I left Israel.  There were only 256 MB left as of last week.  Oops!  She was still doing ok even though her battery and memory space were running short when I left but when I turned her on when I got to Phoenix her screen had burnt out!  How do you fix that?!?  I think it will probably be more cost effective to get a new computer rather than fix her since she is almost 3 years old but I'll have to investigate that some more today.  Anyway I just wanted to ask you to be patient with me while I try to nurse my baby back to health or grieve her death.  Someday all of my adventures will be posted here.