Reconnected

Well, blogosphere, you can't keep me away!

Just before Jim left, we recalled that our old desktop was gathering dust in the hall storage closet. Last night I spent a few minutes pulling it out of the closet and setting it up. That took surprisingly less time than I'd imagined. I'd waited until the girls went to sleep because I thought it'd be an ordeal. In less than five minutes it was all set up. Of course, there's a reason the desktop has been in storage. It lumbers, rather than runs. (Setting it up took under five minutes. Starting it up took far longer!) Occasionally it doesn't even run. But until Jim returns, it'll be good enough.

The girls and I easily could have survived the next week or so without a computer. The world won't end if I don't blog or check e-mail. But having access to the computer certainly simplifies things. As he visits schools, Jim is carrying on e-mail conversations with a number of professors. Their messages will be an important part of our decision to attend a particular graduate school. We'd tried having Jim relay the most important parts of messages to me when he called, but after a while that just got sort of awkward and inefficient. Now that I can read the e-mail traffic, things should go a little more smoothly. Our lumbering old desktop means that I can actually participate (at least a little more intelligently) in our decision about where to attend school. And as long as it's up, I may as well blog. Thank goodness for technology, even the lumbering sort!