I'm back, and from this end, I look a lot cooler.

For the last couple of months, this household has been running on the worst cobbled-together computer equipment you've ever seen.  Our old PC died, so we had the hard drive plugged into my 8-year-old Dell laptop, which features 256 centimeters of RAM and a dejected demeanor.  It was good for viewing one -- if you were lucky -- website at a time, and not much else.  Especially not blogging, as uploading pictures and such took forever and a day.

That all changed this last weekend, when we finalized the adoption papers for our new Mac.  It's so pretty, and there's no irritating buttons, cord jacks, little blinking lights, or much else on it to indicate that it's a mere machine.  Remember the monolith from 2001?  Now make it out of brushed silver and put a silhouette of an apple on the front of it. If you wish, you may tape a sign to the front that says, in large, friendly letters, "Don't Panic," but that would disturb its qi.  Please do not disturb the qi of my new Mac.

So once again, I have a permanent computer where I can upload photos (they've all been living on my camera for ages) and generally entertain the two people who ever check into Funundrum anymore.