Crash Bang Boom

The LW's laptop drive started making funny noises yesterday and then....nothing. She lost most of a day's work and all of her stored passwords and favorites. She scrambled around and we called my buddy John at Housecall Computer Service. He dropped by, picked up the laptop, and in a few hours delivered it back with the bad news - it was toast. She got access to some of her files on our home box and worked on them until around 2am. This afternoon she picked up another laptop from another editor here in town and has been off to the races to beat her deadline.

CP and I had our second day of parent-child swim lessons at the Y this morning and she seems to like getting into the pool with other small people. It's fun for me too and gives me a very specific reason to get out of the house. I get to drop her off at ChildWatch there after swimming and run upstairs to work out for a bit. You can see in the picture that she really likes the water and it doesn't matter if it's the lap pool or water bowl for the chickens.

We finally had the camera in the car the other day when we drove by the local purveyor of pseudo-pithy break room "go get'em peon team" artwork. I guess that success is measured differently by everyone and this store's "journey" has come to an end. The LW and I grinned at this little bit of irony. If you've been a cube monkey for any big corporation before, chances are you've run into one of these things when most cube farms should have artwork like this one.