Mmm, Yummy.

After I got home yesterday I got to work replacing the burned-out motherboard in Omaha's computer while she put dinner together. We had invited guests over that evening but plans fell through (no thanks to AT&T's painfully slow mail-forwarding servers) so she decided to make roast chicken sandwiches with spinach and an unbelievably delicious cream cheese-and-cranberry dressing. They were fabulous. Of course, Kouryou-chan picked off the spinach and then the chicken before deciding she just wanted cranberry cheese sandwiches.

The motherboard went in without complaint, even taking the CPU transplant without incident. I don't trust my USB hookups (yet) since they're so flaky, but everything else seems to work-- even the HDD LED works. Omaha's struggling now to get the whole system up. I'm rather annoyed that Windows 98 nuked all of its settings upon realizing that the motherboard had changed-- all of the drivers for the modem, the video card, the NIC, the sound, they all disappeared.

I dunked Kouryou-chan into the bathtub where she insisted on trying to cover me with bubbles, then read our routine four books before going to bed. She choose Anne Geddes books, which don't require any reading skills, making me wonder if maybe we're not paying enough attention to her sometimes. I did play with her a lot this evening, roughhousing and other stuff.

Aye-Tin-Er-Air-Ry

The actual vacation schedule is probably all wrong. I have a vague memory of Omaha reversing the course of driving.

Friday:

• Finish up system at work so it's stable enough for next week
• Stop at Sam's Coffee for 1/2 hour writing session...
• Pick up Yamaarashi-chan from her mother's
• Feed
• Head to Uffington Horse concert, dropping off Omaha in downtown on the way.
• Go home and sleep

Saturday:

• Make breakfast: pancakes, probably. From scratch, of course! Whole milk, no butter in the mix, fluffed egg whites.
• Make and pack a lunch.
• Head out early for Low Tide Festival at Port Townsend Marine Science Center with Omaha and the kids. (See what you have to put up with when you marry an oceanographer?)
• Catch the next ferry home.
• Start packing for trip to Florida.
• Burn CDs to listen to on the trip.

Sunday:

• Breakfast. Something protein-ish. Scrambled eggs with cheese.
• Drop Yamaarashi-chan off at her mother's house since she's going to her cousin's birthday party that afternoon.
• Pack
• Ensure everything is recharged, has back-up batteries, or whatever. This includes: the Palm, the laptop, the cell phone, the CD player, the toothbrush.
• Ensure Kouryou-chan has a sketchbook, a CD player of her own, and a zillion things to do on a six-hour plane ride.
• Get cab to airport.
• Fly to Tampa. One stop somewhere.

( The rest is long and about our trip to Florida. )