What a relaxing Saturday morning we are having!  One of the big changes that have been made around here this summer is that I have gone back to work.  I have several clients now – needing simple things like computer cleanup, all things related to digital photo storage, classes on UTube, office networking and web design.  I’ve learned how to connect VPN’s to Remote Desktop and add modules to Microsoft Office.  I’ve re-entered the game of Zen Cart – re-learning all the ins and outs of playing the game of installation and customization of over 1,600 files.  I’ve messed up, cleaned up, learned, relearned, and succeeded so far in every endevor.  So far it is just word of mouth, but soon – I think I’ll be ready to launch my A Wright Source webspace and work on business cards and such.  But then it would be a real job – and not a hobby that gets me my Townsend tea money, craft supplies, and Legos.

So – all that said to ponder the thought of why the contractor’s wife’s kitchen is never finished? Well, in a computer techie’s home, the computers are never quite finished!  BUT – October marked the last month that we owed a contract obligation to Clearwire.  Lovely company – if you live near a tower.  It doesnt’ seem right that companies can have you sign a 2 year agreeement knowing full well that you will not receive service for those two years.   . . .  Anywho – we signed up for Bend Broadband – and now have blazingly fast internet connection.  Which may be why I’m more excited to be on line. 🙂 I did some work restoring 11 computers this summer for a client and part of my pay was a new desktop and a cushy leather chair.  Part of my past two days has been to nurse  my old Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop back into the land of the living.  So, Nate is looking at ebay legos on the new desktop, while I work on my live spaces in the cushy chair.  Jon is humming christmas songs from choir practice while buttering toast with sounds that put me back at my mom’s kitchen table as a child hearing, look, but I scrapped all the black off, its good underneath, I like a good crunch.  I liked soft gushy poptarts, but that got me no where.

So – today we have two desktops and two laptops (ancient gateway that Darren got for school  too many years ago) – we have 4 people in the house, and no one is "waiting" their turn.  Life is good.