Guess who got a new laptop + big news

Nope. Not me. Actually Jodi's mom did. She got a brand new spanking MacBookPro. It's 100% overkill for what she will do with it. I think it may be the most powerfuk email station in all of South Eastern Wisconsin. The story of how she came to it is pretty amazing. Just happened to be walking by the Apple Store at Mayfair and went in to talk to someone about a computer. The floor staff said she had to make an appointment with a sales person and pointed her to a kiosk. She is not very savvy so she couldn't figure out how to sign up so she left. About 2 weeks later she was back at the mall and decided to go back in. This time she found an older woman working the floor. She was relieved to find this lady more receptive. She told the lady "I have never had my own computer before" so what does the nice sales lady do? Sell her a MacBook? No she goes for the whole kit'n'kaboodle and talks her into buying a $2500 laptop plus .Mac account and some other stuff. CRIMINAL! They also signed her up for a year of computer classes which is probably the best thing they could do. She already took a class and learned how to email obviously. Jodi has since receieved 5 emails from her mom. A whole new world of communication has been opened. Here's the funny part. Jodi's dad was kind of cheesed that her mom dropped almost $3k on a laptop so he bought himself some toys. Did he buy himself a new Windows box to replace his 5 year old HP junker running WinME? Nope. He bought a fax machine. Better plug that in immediately! There is probably an important fax message from 1985 wait to come through. He also bought some other junk but it seems minotr compared to the fax. The best buy geek squad is busy with those two now. They had to come and wire the house for Wifi so Jodi's mom can surf wirelessly. Now when we visit I can finally hop on! Hooray!

We're going on vacation tomorrow. Flying off to Colorado to ski/snowboard and relax. I am ready to relax for a while thats for sure. Of course as seems to be the way it goes there is a giant work related event going on the week I am going to be out of town. I don't plan it that way thats just the way it goes. Things were crazy this week. I hired a new student worker. We had to uninstall a podium set-up Kevin and I spent a ton of time working on for no good reason. One of my Macs i record lectures on died. Yeah. It pretty much sucked. UNTIL....

Big news on the Fernandez family front. Jodi was offered and accepted a bigtime job at the Queens Museum! We are totally excited. It's a huge bump and career shift but one that she felt was long overdue. What a way to start your vacation! Now Jodi has to get a car. Which is crazy. If she takes the train it's over an hour train ride if you are lucky. If you drive its probably 20-30 minutes barring insane traffic. I have a feeling Jodi will learn to hate the BQE. I hate it and I don't have a car. So we get back and we need to find a car immediately.

Gotta go to bed. Flying tomorrow!