And in other non-dog news...

We officially own more computers than pets. And there are an equal number of pets and computers that actually work. *blush*

We have had an HP desktop for years. I think this thing is 6 or 7 years old. It's pretty slow, crammed with a lot of junk, and fairly unreliable. When I was in school after I had Tevin, we bought an HP laptop. That started not working so well maybe 3 years ago. We bought another HP laptop because it was a great deal at Wal-Mart. In retrospect, not a great deal, but at the time it was. Very shortly after we bought laptop #2 and external hard drive #1, laptop #1 took its' final breath and is now resting in peace...somewhere in the house. We weren't using the desktop and I don't exactly remember the details of it, but we became the owners of a Dell laptop. Time frame for laptops #2 and #3 were close. Laptop #2 is running Vista on 1Gb of RAM. Laptop #3 is running XP on 2Gb of RAM, I think.

So...with Matt back in school now, he expressed a desire to get a Netbook. His reasoning was sound. Compact, inexpensive, he's able to slip it in his bag and bring it to school to take notes on and take it to work with him. I liked the idea of having a computer with a functioning webcam installed. Since we got a PHENOMENAL deal on the kids' swingset, we had lots of tax return money left over. So, we ordered him his Netbook. It came today. It's cute. :)

If you're actually keeping track, that makes 5 computers, 4 of which are functioning. No, we didn't get rid of a pet. We still have 5. Yesterday, Matt texted me from work to tell me that they had a "can't pass up" deal. It's a monster laptop. We've always said that when the desktop retired, we would get a laptop and just station it on the desk. This laptop just screamed "buy me" to us. It is a 17" HP (hiss boo, I really hate HP, but this deal...) running Vista (again, boo, but we can get the Windows 7 upgrade dirt cheap through school) with 4Gb RAM, a 500Gb hard drive, a blueray lightscribe drive, an HDMI output, a webcam, and a FULL keyboard. Including 10 key! He couldn't buy it until today since it was marked UNDER $400 yesterday. When he got to work today, it was still there and he was able to buy it. His co-worker Chester is jealous.

Under $700 for a Netbook and a Laptop. As much as I can complain about spending that much money, at least now I can smack him if he even starts looking at computers again for years to come.