<p>Ha, ha, I’m back from the show. That was waaay more fun than cleaning the house. Alumother, I think I lost that card, it should be here in one of these piles somewhere . . .</p>
<p>Jym, thanks for the banana bread!</p>
<p>Where is everyone? Recuperating from the weekend? </p>
<p>Hey, just cause it’s Monday doesn’t mean we can’t have a virtual drink. I haven’t had a black Russian in a long time. Or a white one, for that matter. Barkeep! Barkeep!</p>
<p>white russians = candy. I’ll take one!</p>
<p>Ah Ha…Black Russians, my drink of choice when I was 18, so sweet…mmmm.</p>
<p>And who needs the ‘get out of housework’ cards…I have several decks on hand … as long as we don’t end up reading about someone with fifty barnyard animals living in their bedroom, or expiring from being buried in their lost laundry, now where is my “to do” list, I know it’s here somewhere…</p>
<p>I actually indulged in a glass of wine tonight while messing about on the family computer, with my trusty work laptop nearby. I was monitoring some work at the office, waiting for it to finish so I could start some critical overnight stuff, when… I knocked over my glass of wine by accident and it spilled all over the laptop. And suddenly the screen went… black.</p>
<p>I managed to drain the wine out of it, turned it off, and used that condensed air in a can stuff to dry it out, then turned it back on and it seemed to work. It would have been curtains for me if it hadn’t worked. </p>
<p>It smells funny now.</p>
<p>That’ll teach me to go beyond the virtual beverages!</p>
<p>mootmom - You’d better backup or copy off your data on that laptop asap. I suspect you’ll be getting a new one shortly - that doesn’t smell like a wino.</p>
<p>Well, mootmom <em>used to be</em> our tech guru. Maybe she still is, if the laptop survives past the wine-drenching incubation period.</p>
<p>If not, I’m surely glad we have p2n as our step-into-the-breach technophile.</p>
<p>Raise a couple of empty glasses to mootmom and parent2noles :D.</p>
<p>You can fill them when you go out to the kitchen, so long as you don’t take your electronics with you.</p>
<p>p2n, it’s my work laptop and I’m scheduled for a replacement in March. Things worked fine overnight, and they’re humming right along this morning… and I do have regular backups, never fear.</p>
<p>Sure was fascinating to watch, though. And no more funny wine smell on the keyboard this morning. (Hey, don’t try to pry my Tech Fairy crown from me, I’m warning ya… I may have to spill a glass of wine on you if you try it.)</p>
<p>Good for you. 
You may keep your crown, I just read lots of comic books.</p>
<p>Generally dunked electronics work for a while then go intermittent and die a slow, twisting, joint-rending, eviscerating horrible death.</p>
<p>Barkeep! Another Jack Daniels on-the-rocks, pronto! I just grossed myself out.</p>
<p>Wait - I remember, I just watched Braveheart. ;)</p>
<p>Any goop left on the miniscule motherboard contacts can create shorts of varying conductivity.</p>
<p>Can you all hack the cash register so we all get a round on the house?</p>
<p>w00t!</p>
<p>Consider the bar open…and free (sort of) :)</p>
<p>Just in time for Happy Hour!</p>
<p>I’ll have whatever Alumother’s having. And don’t pay for hers from the hacked register, because I’m paying. I want to sit right next to her. She got the Wii at Target and I am still in the wishing and hoping mode wrt the Wii.</p>
<p>I want to hear her scoop, her tips and techniques. Really, I want her to tell me that she bought two - an extra, just in case. I want to be the recipient of THAT one due to my generous picking up of her bar tab. Or something.</p>
<p>Hah- BHappymom smuggly wipes off her beer suds moustache, DS “cured” from video gaming…it involved a van, an intervener resembling Dog the Bounty Hunter, shackles & duct tape, and the simultaneous use of Clockwork Orange & Chessmaster 8000, the regular lighting of votive candles and throwing fresh meat to the Marmot King…the rest I leave to your imaginations… :)</p>
<p>Jmmom, I left you my tips which can be summarized as go buy cleaning products on the other thread.</p>
<p>BHappy - do you perform that service for $$$?:)</p>
<p>Wow, BHappyMom…that is a curiously arousing description. My aging male sensibilities are all a twitter. </p>
<p>Q: Where’s jym when needed to interpret all this stuff? </p>
<p>A: Probably fussing over a new computer (<em>economy model</em>). 
(No - I did not say you were cheap!)</p>
<p>(oooh - watch the wine when trying to drink from a flute! - sorry, French horn - you’ll soak the derned thing)</p>
<p>oooh – did I hear someone call my name? Let me read and catch up. I’ll BRB</p>
<p>mootmom:
OK, this is getting weird. Two nights ago I was on hold with Yahoo (because I have a domain name thingee with them and my email hasn’t worked in 5 days…) and I spilled an entire glass of white wine in my keyboard! It’s a cordless keyboard, so I quickly picked it up and turned it upside down and gave it a good shake. Then I took out the batteries and tried to take a paper towel and get down between all the keys. When I thought I had it under control I left it upside down until tonight on a kitchen chair (between the arms). Tonight my son hooked it back up for me. It seems like the keys are a little hard to press - but maybe it’s my imagination, or maybe it’s in comparison to the substitute keyboard he had on here for me.'</p>
<p>Anyway, I blamed in on Yahoo’s tech support. They care. (NOT)</p>
<p>So. It’s true. SA habituees do Drink and Post. Well, at least it’s high class wine.</p>
<p>Have I mentioned (i.e. bragged shamelessly) that my son got a part in the school musical, Little Shop of Horrors? He is playing Wino #1 (perfect) and “the voice not unlike God’s.” Better late then never - it will be his last school play after having done stage crew for 6 years…</p>
<p>Here’s the funny thing - I have NEVER EVER heard him sing. Not even in the shower. How desperate would you say his smallish, all-boys’ high school is? ;)</p>