It's Laptop This, Laptop That

Recently, my husband helped me order a new laptop. He’s my tech guru, and I’d be an even more clueless luddite than I already am without him in my life. So when the laptop arrived, he was like a kid on Christmas morning, and soon hunkered down to get things up and running for me: registering software, downloading applications, setting up the wireless connection, feeding the hamster that's surely running on a tiny wheel beneath the keyboard.

“Try it out!” he urged, so I did. I tried it out big time. I spent an afternoon in the backyard with my laptop, connected to the Internet. Oh miracle of miracles! Checking email while baking my way to skin cancer—could there BE anything more delightful?

So things progressed. The new laptop found a home on the kitchen table. J would return from work with a glint in his eye, a spring in his step: “Did you use your new laptop today?!”

And his face would just crumble if I said no. So he helped a friend order the same laptop, simply to experience the thrill of new technology all over again.

One night last week, J was snoring, keeping me wide-awake…I started with the nudges, then moved to soft kicks, and finally graduated to the hard shove, accompanied by an irritated, “Honey. HONEY. You can’t sleep on your back. It makes you snore.”

He frowned in his sleep but said (rather lucidly), “Even with a new laptop?”

Yes, dear. Even the new laptop won’t prevent you from snoring.

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Last year, one of my flower beds looked like this:

Look at that sucker this year:

I don't know how that beastly plant in the middle got so out of control. In a week, it'll be covered in pretty yellow flowers. Pretty yellow flowers with teeth and beady, green little eyes.

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Finally, thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of Driving Sideways—your willingness to take a chance on this scruffy, unknown author has just sent the book back to press for a third printing! You? Are all awesome.

This Friday I’ll be posting at The Debs and then I'm leaving for a wedding in Minnesota. I’m hoping for some good blog fodder, so wish me luck.