I just wanted to let everyone know what's been taking so long with new chapters for this story…

I received a laptop computer for Christmas last year. Over the year, I've experienced a ridiculous amount of glitches and errors, finally forcing me to send it back to the company to be fixed. They returned it to me in even worse shape. I sent it back, against my better judgment, a second time. It was returned untouched and saying that I had declined repair, which was ridiculous considering I had never been notified to be able to decline anything. Now I'm waiting – in vain, it seems – for a replacement laptop. My current laptop is fried, and I am absolutely unable to retrieve information from it.

Guess where all my current work on Left Behind is locked up?

You guessed it: Inside that crappy laptop.

I have one more route to go before deciding once and for all that all my work is gone forever. Luckily I had backed up most of my work to my desktop the first time I sent the laptop in…unfortunately I neglected to do so after that, so when the computer very suddenly and unexpectedly crapped out on me, I was screwed.

If I can't retrieve my work, I'll have to start the next few chapters from scratch. But let's all keep our fingers crossed that I'll be able to get the info off the hard drive, and you'll all be treated to a new chapter of Left Behind within the next few days.

Again, sorry for the wait. I know how annoying it is when you want to read a new chapter of something, and you're waiting…in vain…like I am for my new laptop.

I would love to tell you the name of the awful company I got this laptop from, but I'm not sure if they would be able to sue me for that.

So let's wish me luck…tomorrow I'll know if I can get into my hard drive!!!