Greetings watchers! Yes, I agree, it is high time I submitted a quality finished piece. And I would have by now, except that my computer is currently dead, and all traditional pieces are far from being finished. Anyway, so you don't think I'm ignoring all of you, here is the story:

I was browsing the internet on no particular suspicious site in particular when all of the sudden about six virus messages popped up from my internet security program. I told it to get rid of all the contaminated files, and it seemed to work. I had to go somewhere later, but my computer takes forever to boot up and I was plannign on using it when I got back, so I put it on power-save. When i got back, everything looked fine until I was on the internet once more and random browsers started quitting without my doing. I could not stop them from closing, and after they were gone, my computer said it was logging off even though I never told it to, and once it "logged off", the log in browser never came back even though the computer was still on. I turned off the computer manually, and rebooted it, and it seemed fine at first until everything froze spontaneously after about five minutes of using the computer. I had to shut it down manually again, but I decided to log on in safe mode, and it seemed to work okay once more. I ran a full system virus scan which took hours, and more than 24 trajans came up. The antivirus program asked if i wanted to quarentine them, and I said yes. They all went away, but my computer still doesn't work properly, runs slowly, and randomly freezes after about five minutes of hopeful processing. Anyway, a friend of mine who knows computers like the back of his hand is going to make me a new one, and see if he can salvage my laptop for me, but until then, art updates are on an official hold. I'm hoping to have a new and functioning computer in about 2 weeks. Until then, I am reduced to doodling in paint on my mom's laptop...