The cold slugs on. My hair is still too short. And now the kid's computer is broken.

The monitor has been acting funky for a while now in that, to shut it off I have to turn off the whole power strip. We've been pricing flat screen LCDs as a replacement anyway, as recently as this past weekend when Aldi's weekly flyer advertised a decent sized one for 169.00. Its not even a "no name", rather its a "never EVER heard of that brand before". So we're leaning more towards a Viewsonic monitor, since we've owned one already, and had good luck with it. Besides, its only 20.00 more after rebate and comes with free shipping. I'm sort of glad the monitor is dying anyway. The current monitor takes up so much space on the kid's desk.. but I'd feel guilty replacing it before it lived its full life, and at the age of 6, I'd say its lived its life.

Additionally, the cpu itself is acting up, freezing up when the kids try to play on noggin, nickjr or uptoten (I highly recommend this site for your preschooler. Its absolutely ADORABLE.) This makes especially Connor, quite irate. Hopefully a reformat will save it, otherwise that will be two computers that the kids have gone through in 18 months. Ugh.

I'm finding my knitting mojo again, having finished the knitting on the contract project, starting the heel on the never ending peas and carrots sock, and I also picked up Gretel again.

Pictures tomorrow.. off to watch last night's Heroes. Richard had to teach last night, and I won't watch without him.

Around a year ago on this day..

• Stripey Pooly Color - 2006
• Secret Pal Package almost ready - 2005