I want one!
The big news, of course, is that Apple came out with a new computer yesterday: the cute little Mac Mini. It's hardly an original idea on my part, but wouldn't it be nice to have one of those in the living room, somewhere over by the tv; you could use the tv for a monitor, of course, and with a wireless keyboard and mouse you could operate the thing from the couch. It would be just the thing in our house to replace Leah's laptop as the living room music server, and then the laptop could go back to being, well, protable, instead of being hopelessly encumbered with cords. Ah, the things we could do if we had money.
On an entirely unrelated note, let me tell you that rainy winter days wreck absolute havoc with the pickup sitution at Mason-Rice elementary. It's bad enough on regular days, with folks just stopping their cars in the middle of the road while they wait for a spot to open up (and there's not much room on that road in the best of circumstances, either). Today saw the addition of long, drawn-out honking, cursing, people shaking their fists out of windows at each other... well, maybe not those last two. But it was a mess, I assure you. I was glad to escape with my life.