Family additions

Last week Laura and I welcomed two new additions to our little family.

A new laptop computer and desktop computer!

The best part is that they are fully potty trained, don't wake us up in the middle of the night, and they'll never have to go to college (although they have had the tendency to talk back once in awhile).

Laura and I had been considering a laptop for awhile. When Laura visits her family in Iowa she would take it with her so she'd never be out of touch with work, not to mention her friend. And I would be able to use it when meeting with my freelance clients to share design ideas and demonstrate website functionality. We share. We're good like that.

We decided on an HP Pavillion Laptop available at Best Buy.


It's a gorgeous, roomy laptop covered in a bronze color accented with chrome. It has Laura's eyes and my love of cheese.

On Friday, we were blessed again with the arrival of my new desktop computer from Dell. I ordered an XPS 420 with a few upgrades and, so far, am very pleased with it.


I've been running Vista for awhile now and my old computer was struggling to keep up with it. I didn't even realize that I purchased that computer over five years ago, which is ancient in terms of performance, so it was time for something new.

Check out the difference in Vista system performance scores! 5.9 is the highest score you can receive with today's hardware (at least that's what I've read). Saweet! And, seriously, it has already saved me time working on things, which is huge!


Not to worry, we aren't abandoning the old system. We have many years and fond memories between us - so I'm going to put it to good use for various testing purposes.

Please join us in welcoming our new additions. We look forward to many years of productivity, games, communication, and browsing.

Did I mention they don't spit up? Awesome.