[quote=@Retired]
My laptop died early yesterday. It has been running disk repair for over 24 hours in a cycle with no signs of actually working. I'm using my brother's right now to right this, so until I am able to get it looked at and/or it chooses to actually reboot I am unable to post in this. I'm not sure how often/if I'll be able to give an update prior to this season ending. I'm going to assume I will likely miss the post deadline, and I may even be unable to continue this season due to this. I'll let you know if/once I get it running again.
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Updating on this situation if anyone cares. Tl;dr at the bottom.

I was able to cancel the disk repair loop the laptop was caught in - literally given a one second window every three to five hours so was easy to miss - then stayed up until nearly 7am that night transferring all of the files from the laptop to various external hard drives. Who knew that it took a long time to move hundreds of gigabytes worth of comics. Once that was done I did a complete factory reset of the computer, wiping the entire hard drive, and hoping that would fix whatever error there had been without me needing to take it to a tech shop. Which seems to have worked, it's been a day and I've noticed no signs or issues. I had to reinstall nearly four years worth of updates and all of my programs and settings again, but I think for the most part I am back to having a fully operational computer. 

I need to still take care of some work and sort out a few things on the business front today, but the post I was working on when this happened is still half complete and I mostly remember the direction I was taking it in. I might shorten it further now given I've missed another week of posting and have less time to finish my intended story, but I should be able to get it posted sometime tomorrow, with any luck. I'm not sure at this moment when my last post was and if I'm over the deadline as of today, but I think I might still have time. 

[b]Tl;dr: Laptop's fine now, will post tomorrow hopefully.[/b]