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I manned up and finally fired up the new computer (whose name is Kaylee, 'cause it's _shiny_). And wow is it fast. And quiet. I can hardly tell it's on at all. I once drove a rental car like this: its engine was so quiet that throughout the weekend I kept trying to start it _again_ because I wasn't sure if it was on or not.

It took three hours yesterday to download and install WoW, and another whole hour to download all the updates. But the background downloader actually works on this computer, so that should help speed the process up in the future. I suspect whatever was keeping Pooh from being able to update the antivirus also kept other things from updating, like WoW and chat programs and stuff. Annoying.

Oh, one of my favorite things about Windows 7 so far are the sticky notes. Hee! Very helpful and friendly, thus continuing to suit the name.

Still in the process of moving things over. I don't have an external hard drive so it's all just by thumb drives and the camera's memory card and it's slow going. I've discovered a couple worms in the process and hopefully they have been sufficiently nuked.

Tonight is both the Scots Walk in Volcano and Teri & Doug's bonfire. I took kiwifruitbat to the Walk last year but sadly it's really declined since the first time I went. There were only about half the amount of people and those who were there weren't as cheerful and talkative and friendly. The pipers were mediocre and they walked too fast; it was hard to keep up with a lit candle in one hand and Morgan in the other. The open house along Main Street in Sutter Creek afterwards, though, was awesome. Yummy cider/wassail and cookies in every store, caroling in front of the Methodist church, good times. I've never been to the bonfire before but Teri & Doug have been doing it for years and it sounds like fun.

Oh, I need to bring an appetizer. Hmm...

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I manned up and finally fired up the new computer (whose name is Kaylee, 'cause it's _shiny_). And wow is it fast. And quiet. I can hardly tell it's on at all. I once drove a rental car like this: its engine was so quiet that throughout the weekend I kept trying to start it _again_ because I wasn't sure if it was on or not.

It took three hours yesterday to download and install WoW, and another whole hour to download all the updates. But the background downloader actually works on this computer, so that should help speed the process up in the future. I suspect whatever was keeping Pooh from being able to update the antivirus also kept other things from updating, like WoW and chat programs and stuff. Annoying.

Oh, one of my favorite things about Windows 7 so far are the sticky notes. Hee! Very helpful and friendly, thus continuing to suit the name.

Still in the process of moving things over. I don't have an external hard drive so it's all just by thumb drives and the camera's memory card and it's slow going. I've discovered a couple worms in the process and hopefully they have been sufficiently nuked.

Tonight is both the Scots Walk in Volcano and Teri & Doug's bonfire. I took kiwifruitbat to the Walk last year but sadly it's really declined since the first time I went. There were only about half the amount of people and those who were there weren't as cheerful and talkative and friendly. The pipers were mediocre and they walked too fast; it was hard to keep up with a lit candle in one hand and Morgan in the other. The open house along Main Street in Sutter Creek afterwards, though, was awesome. Yummy cider/wassail and cookies in every store, caroling in front of the Methodist church, good times. I've never been to the bonfire before but Teri & Doug have been doing it for years and it sounds like fun.

Oh, I need to bring an appetizer. Hmm...

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We had fun at the bonfire tonight. Mom taught Morgan how to roast marshmallows - you know, one of those valuable life lessons one learns in Girl Scouts ;). Morgan flipped a bit when the wind picked up and made the flames bigger, and also when Mom accidentally let a marshmallow catch fire. But she did enjoy pulling off that outside layer and then sticking the rest of it back in the fire to do it all over again. Tee hee.

Idalene, my mom's aunt and Teri's (the hostess) mom, was watching Morgan dance to the Christmas music and said she looks just like I did at that age, and like Mom did too. Yeah, there's no wondering what you'll look like when you grow up, in this family. And I might be biased, but I think the women in my family are pretty good-looking and age particularly well, so that's not a bad thing.

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We had fun at the bonfire tonight. Mom taught Morgan how to roast marshmallows - you know, one of those valuable life lessons one learns in Girl Scouts ;). Morgan flipped a bit when the wind picked up and made the flames bigger, and also when Mom accidentally let a marshmallow catch fire. But she did enjoy pulling off that outside layer and then sticking the rest of it back in the fire to do it all over again. Tee hee.

Idalene, my mom's aunt and Teri's (the hostess) mom, was watching Morgan dance to the Christmas music and said she looks just like I did at that age, and like Mom did too. Yeah, there's no wondering what you'll look like when you grow up, in this family. And I might be biased, but I think the women in my family are pretty good-looking and age particularly well, so that's not a bad thing.