Apologies for My Grand Disappearing Act

I was accepted into a program at my university to go live in Cuba for 4 months. Through said 4 months, my laptop was resuscitated from the blue screen of death twice, before eventually succumbing into a speed coma (that is, it works enough to remove one or two files before freaking out and shutting down). All my documents are (slowly) being retrieved from its hard-drive little by little.