No, I did not enter the Witness Protection program or get abducted by aliens

It is such a pity that years could not be returned for a refund. So far, I’m less than enamored with 2016. My spaniel’s post-surgery recovery has been an ordeal for both of us. My chiropractor is doing his best to get me mobile (without pain) again, but it will take a while. And now my main laptop has died. No, I did not kill it, only because I had no axe in the house. The hard drive had a meltdown and nothing can be recovered from it. Thank God I have Carbonite backing up my data, but it will be a huge hassle to get everything transferred to my new laptop. I haven’t decided on the name yet; in the past, I’ve gone with names like Demon Spawn and RC (Rosemary’s Baby and Melusine, the Demon Countess of Anjou. I took a different approach with my late, unlamented laptop, calling it Dracarys, which my fellow Game of Thrones fans will appreciate, but in the year I had it, it gave me nothing but grief. So I’ve decided it was not a good choice to throw my lot in with the Targaryns, and I am going instead with the only good Lannister, Tyrion. I suppose I could align with the Starks but they have a survival rate worse than those with Plantagenet blood did under the Tudors.
Because the year has been so much fun so far, I have not been able to spend time on Facebook and have suffered occasional withdrawal pangs; I also don’t trust certain parties who are given to staging coups. (No names mentioned, Ken and Stephanie.) But my chiropractor is back from his Christmas vacation, welcomed by me and his other patients the way the Parisians greeted the troops who liberated their city from the Nazis. Holly gets her stitches out next Monday. BTW, the surgical suit did work, enabling me to ditch the catastrophic plastic cone, although it is so tight-fitting she looks like a sausage bursting out of its skin. And I hope to get the new laptop set up and ready to go in the next day or two. So with luck, I won’t be such a stranger here once all of this gets straightened out.
Lastly, here is some Game of Thrones news, both good and bad. It is not returning till April 24th this year, but they are seriously considering adding an eighth season. http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/07/...