Yet, yesterday, we had one computer in the house that actually worked -- the desktop in the office. A while ago, I or someone else stepped on my laptop and broke the screen. Yesterday, I fired up my old laptop, and was reminded exactly why I got a new laptop in the first place -- it took nearly 20 minutes to boot. And the battery holds a charge for 0 minutes. And it has no wireless internet. There is something wrong with the wireless router, so the Mac is fine if you want to look at star wars pictures the kids have downloaded or play chess, but that's about it, since it has no internet. Kathy's work computer was conveniently left at work.
Since Kathy worked from home yesterday, she had dibs on the functioning computer. Which meant that blog posts went unwritten, mortgage refinancing rates went unresearched, and I generally had nothing to do all day but pace and do chores (and bother Kathy). I even went so far as to try to use my phone to google whether I could use the old laptop as a monitor for the new laptop by hooking them together somehow. (The answer seems to be no, at least with my existing skill set.)
