This post was written on our new computer. We were not planning on buying a new computer, but fate--and Mojo--had other plans. Our last laptop met an untimely end when I placed it on our desk with insufficient care. Mojo was walking by and caught his leg in the chord of the charger. A laptop with four, small rubber feet is no match for Big 'Mo. (Twenty years ago we wouldn't have had that problem: you could hang a horse with an early Macintosh.)

The good news is that this seems like a good time to buy a new computer. We paid half as much a laptop that is twice as good as our last one. However, I have always disliked buying computers. A computer is the single most anticlimactic purchase anyone will ever make. They are one of the larger expenses most people regularly make, but they are almost exactly the same as the one before it, just a little faster. It's like voting, except there actually is a difference between Macs and PCs. Furthermore, computers are almost too easy to shop for. It seriously took Kaaryn more than twice as much time to spend $20 at a fabric store. She dropped me off and wasn't near finished by the time I walked to the fabric store, laptop in hand.

Anyhow, it's taken me this long to realize that this post is going nowhere at all.

Palmer out.