It's been a long time

I haven't been feeling the blogging bug lately but there's something about listening to your husband yell at his laptop that makes a girl want to come and caress the keys of her Mac...

When we were in Portland we bought a laptop. We initially had a hard time doing it because we've been so in love with our Mac, but couldn't afford, or justify paying for a MacBook and couldn't imagine ourselves going back to a Windows operated system. But we had a giftcard (thanks to my mom and dad!) and found a great clearance deal so we did it. Jason uses it for his on-line classes and bought a pen tablet to make his math class easier and he loves his laptop. And I love not being kicked off this computer when he gets home. He's also become quite smitten with it's voice recognition feature.

Which I really don't get.

I would much rather use my mouse than tell my computer what to do. Maybe it's because I spend all day telling my children what to do and therefore don't want to have one more thing to 'speak' to. Especially on days like today when the computer seems to be listening as well as the kids do.

For example:

Right this very minute, he has told the computer 6 times to "STOP LISTENING". Why not just grab the mouse and turn the stupid feature off!!! It's not like you can threaten it....

"You better listen the next time I tell you to STOP listening OR ELSE...."

That just doesn't really work. Or how about this... He seriously just asked his computer if it understands insults. And he just called it a name...Really? I wonder if its some kind of power trip. I just asked him why he doesn't just turn the feature off and use the mouse since it would be easier, right? I think he replied something like, "Well, it wouldn't be easier if the stupid thing worked!" But there was so much anger and frustration in his voice that my laughter blocked out what he was really saying.

I haven't had entertainment this good in awhile...I think next time I'll try to video tape him telling his computer over and over and over and over to "Start listening" followed by a mumbled, "Your stupid," followed by "Stop listening. Your done. I've had enough of your crap."


And maybe some time this week between birthdays, and church activities, colds and grocery shopping, laundry and napping, diaper rashes and phone calls, work and cleaning, fighting and eating, I'll sit down and post a few pictures of the FUN times that have been happening around this place...

For posterity's sake, of course...