He's got skills!

Ha Ha I'm back! AND . . . it turns out the able bodied crew at the geek squad is not so able bodied and much more geek. Their diagnosis of our computer was essentially, "Uh, we think there might be something wrong with your hard drive." Um, seriously? Did you read that off the sheet we filled out about what we think might be wrong with it when we dropped it off? After not being of any help and taking lots of our money, Chris himself has apparently fixed the computer. At least for now. He says it is still liable to crash but all the important stuff (read: my babies photographic history of their entire lives) is safe and has been backed up several times. So, hurrah for the hubby. I guess all those hard years at MIT have payed off! I have my own personal geek squad. Except not so geeky of course. (side note: I used to always see signs for the MIT theatre club when I was walking around campus and found it amusing. I guess I shouldn't assume they all fit the pale, scrawny, sallow looking student with poor p.r. skills stereotype. Chris is anything but pale, scrawny, and sallow looking. And his p.r. skills aren't bad either.) He fixed the all important life line to the outside and deserves some praise. The hardest part about not having Internet for the past week (other than missing you, dear internets), what ever will the weather be like? Ahhh, what will I dress the children in today? Pants, shirts, and sweater's? Or maybe it will turn out to be a shorts and T-shirt day? Oh the choices. And, really, you never know with our bipolar weather here. One day will be a warm 77 degrees and the next 54. Really, we have had over a 30 degree drop from one day to the next this past week. I have to keep switching the air conditioning off and the heater on only to find myself roasting in the house two days later and turning the thermostat back to cool. I suppose I could check the T.V. for the weather but between the hours of 7:00a.m. and 8:00 p.m. it is fixed on either noggin or sprout and a curse on whoever changes that remote! After 8:00 my own personal viewing time is much too important to waste with flipping channels to check the weather. So thank you, weather.com, for the instant gratification of solving my daily clothing questions immediately whenever I decide to ask. Anyway, there is much to catch up on so a little preview of what will be coming over the next week or so . . .

• the primary talent show (a shameless marketing of my children but very cute)
• face painting--we shall see who ends up with the short end of the stick
• Matthew's got all those standard church answers down
• my thoughts on General Petraeus vs. The Never Ending Story
• and many other fully unimportant happenings in my life

Stay Tuned . . .