Happy July the Fourth, Though I do not Make it Happier

[attackfish]

To all my fellow Americans (of the sort who live in the USA, and not those who are Americans of the Mexican, Central, South, or Canadian types, through I hope their days are happy as well) happy Independence Day!  To the rest of you, you poor things, you miss the fireworks.  I'm sad to say my computer is fried, and I'm typing this on my mother's less than youthful machine, so while you, reader mine, will get your usual dose of Children of Mars on time, and perhaps another "Parchment Underground" story, I will not be posting my usual volume of blog posts and book reviews.  I lost my data, and while I have most of my novel backed up, and all of my fanfiction, I have some salvage work to do on the last week or so's worth of work.  awww.