I just got my HP laptop back after it spent 6 days in exile with my computer technician. SIGH. Despite several attempts, he was unable to load the service pack Microsoft Vista has for it, and my computer still has all its crochets–locking up in Word, delayed appearance of what I’m typing in email sometimes, and so forth. A world-class problem? Hardly. There’s a lot worse things going on in the world–the oil disaster in the Gulf, for example. But I did hope he could fix its issues, and I would have this fast slick computer of my dreams. But at least it works, and at least it’s home, and he very generously did not charge me. I am going to try his suggestion of getting a cooling pad for it, as it really gets warm after a lot of use–so much so that even using a lap pad, when I get up from the couch after holding it, I’m cold. If I’d only known the fix wouldn’t work, I could have spent the last few days starting my new proposal for Steeple Hill.

Meanwhile, I’ve developed a serious case of IPAD lust–not so much for reading books, because I’ve got enough books in print to read  to last the rest of my life, probably, and I’m always buying more, but because you can do email on it too. They make it look so cool in the ads, don’t they? But the price—-! That’s sure a lot more than my friendly little ASUS EE PC that I travel with. (The only thing I dislike about it is the hard push that’s required on the mouse to move to the next email). I won’t have time to go shop for this IPAD before our upcoming trip, but if I do decide do go through with it, hopefully I will have time to do so before ACFW in Indianapolis in September. It would be nice to have and bypass the outrageous charges fancy hotels tack on for in-room internet. We’ll see…

It’s time to close and do some cleaning so my dogsitter won’t be too shocked at my bad housekeeping. I don’t know any writers that are fanatical housekeepers, but still!

Blessings, Laurie, who knows the pansies picture has nothing to do with what I wrote about!