Metapost: Sad Trombone

Folks, an electrical storm hit here last night and fried my desktop computer such that when I woke up this morning, there was no internet connection. Husband diagnosed the problem to be unfixable, before then hooking up a jury-rigged solution which is much slower and very sad. So not only has this eaten up my entire morning, it has also left me feeling very much like this picture of a sad cat:

Sad Cat @ ghcorps.org

I'm not sure how this will affect posting for the next few weeks (months? please god, not months), but there it is. In the meantime, I'm kind of in mourning because I have a tendency to get emotionally attached to my gadgets -- I've been with this desktop for almost as long as I've been with Husband, and had planned to hold on to it for at least another 3-4 years. So.