Are Pigs Flying?

Your eyes are not deceiving you - Mike has decided to post again! It is pretty bad when the last time that I posted was the day that we brought Libby home and tomorrow she turns 1 month old. Thank goodness that my better half has kept the communication flow going with her updates, otherwise this would be a boring blog and we'd lose all 4 of our readers!

I love that Tricia has given me pre-selected topics to write about. I've had those ideas in mind for a long time, but have not gotten around to writing about them. I think that the better topic that would translate to you all through writing is about our laptop woes. The Pirate Colonists of Grace Lane will just have to wait until I can get photographic proof...tough thing about that is that I don't want to be "that guy" taking random pictures of someone else's house. It's one thing if they were in our neighborhood and were out walking and I took the pictures, but for this house we'd actually have to stop the car, get out, take the picture, and be on our merry way. Like I said, without seeing this house you can't truly appreciate it.

I love our laptop, I really do. It was a great piece of machinery when I got it a few years ago, and miraculously enough, it's still up-to-date. Now, we've had some problems with it over the years - the clasp to shut it is broken, I couldn't power it up for a while, it's scratched - those are all minor issues. It's what happened to it shortly after it came back from it's last repair that's given us our white-trash laptop. What makes it WT you may ask? Well, the M key doesn't work (and that's a real challenge when my name starts with an M), the left arrow key doesn't work (no biggie in my mind), but the big kicker is that the space bar is out of commission as well. If I were to type this entry from our laptop, it would look eerily familiar to this: SoreeberwhenIbloggedaboutVeronicaarsandhowitwasagreatshow? (translation: So remember when I blogged about Veronica Mars and how it was a great show? - an aside...it's getting picked up for a 3rd season on the CW - it'll be on Tuesdays at 9/8 central...watch it!) Back to the gist...it's really impossible for us to do much of anything on that computer except surf the already populated drop-down menu that we've got up. We have to copy and paste M's and spaces to get anything done. Tricia sent my mom and email this way the other day. She's got more patience that I would with that computer!

Now, why is it WT? It's like what Foxworthy says - you know your a redneck when you've got more cars on blocks in your yard than actually run. Well, you know you've got a WT laptop when you have to copy and paste spaces and letters to make anything work!

Until next month... :)
MK