On forced break July 22, 2012

I am an an unplanned break forced my major technical difficulties. I experienced a major failure in the last iOS update to my iPad and the iTune backup of my iPad also failed. I have been working to restore my iPad, but wading through nearly two thousand apps to find the ones I want in my iTunes is taking a pretty long time. I am nearly finished after two weeks of effort, and now my hard drive has failed for the second time in less than a year on my replacement laptop that Dell sent me to compensate me for a defective laptop. So, things will be quiet here until I get a new laptop up and running.