New Computer

Here is the new setup, with our Toshiba laptop up where the monitor used to be. This will be the daily-use setup, with the old mouse and keyboard still in action. They're both a lot easier to use than the laptop's mouse and keyboard. But, as soon as we get the router working, we will be able to work out in the living room when Cora is sleeping. I plan to make use of the new computer today - our congressman is having a press conference in town, and I'm going to cover it for my old newspaper. I'll take the laptop and get the story written "on the road" while my mom has Cora, so when we both come home I will be ready to file.
Our old computer lasted 4 1/2 years, not bad for a $350 package deal that included a printer! This computer, WITH getting the stuff off our (dead) old hard drive installed, cost about twice that. We were very tempted to go Mac, but that would have been another grand. We want to be conservative since we hope to be buying a house this year and probably will then have lots of things to spend money on!