Oh my holy, ever-lovin’ machines! I just changed my printer from my desktop to my thinkpad - and do you know what that sucker DID???? Ok, well lemme back up a little - I’m using my husband’s old printer, and I’m not sure where he keeps his discs for such things, so I knew I’d need to start digging through his office stuff, in hopes that I’d find it. Or, I could do like I usually do, and just head to http://www.driverguide.com and hunt it down. (I just love that site!) And I was in the process of deciding which route to take first when I plugged it in (thankfully, my new battery back-up came with an extra USB cord!) And now I ask you again - do you know what that sucker did??? It installed itself and was ready to roll in LESS THAN 30 SECONDS!

A chorus of angels sang, while I shouted out, with tears in my eyes, “Glory Be to Technology in the Highest!”

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I am not kidding you when I say that there were tears coming out of my eyes - I’m not! I was laughing and laughing and I couldn’t shut up, regardless of the fact that the husband was just enjoying his first few sips of coffee in bed. He was just ‘coming around’ - he could go off on me any second, but, I just could. not. stop. carrying on like some fool! I’m not embarrassed to tell you that it was orgasmic! (Ok, maybe just a little embarassed…)

You have no idea how much I deserved something like this! And I kept saying that, too - “I deserved this! I deserved this!” It’s a wonder, really, that the old man came into the kitchen in such a good mood, after my caterwauling!

My techno-story, shortly after moving out here to Alabama, is one of heartache and struggle. It began when my hard drive (harddrive?) crashed in November 2006, and it’s been a snowball’s ride down Mt. Techno straight towards Hell, hitting every possible mogul on the way down, ever since. I am so not kidding you. Seriously. Look, I just bought http://www.bookwormbroadcast.com - to replace http://www.myveryownmail.com/BookwormBroadcast - and it took me TWO AND A HALF WEEKS to install WordPress - and that’s with “tech support’s” help! I spent hours and hours on the phone with them, and then finally got it worked out on my own last night!

One day soon, I’ll timeline my techno traumas for you here on the blog, and you can laugh at me, cry with me, make fun of me - whatever is your cup of tea. But for now, just picture the happiest girl in the world, witnessing technology at its finest - doing what it should be doing. Funny, that was another one of the things I hollered out, “Now that is technology! That is technology!”