Update coming soon! YAAAY! I'm really looking forward to getting caught up with them. I'll just sit over here and try to be patient. :D

Sorry to hear your laptop is being iffy again, but at least your families aren't endangered. Do you have the game installed on your external hard drive, or do you mean you have a backup of your game? I used to try installing programs on an external drive, but only a few of them actually worked.