Sometimes 
it is dangerous to tell my sweet husband what’s on my mind. I have been reading in various journals about the new “netbook” computers that are half the size and price of a traditional laptop but are powerful enough to do what you need. The other night I was wandering around Amazon.com and searched for the model I had most recently read about, the Asus Eee PC 1000H. After reading the specs I was oohh’ing and ahhh’ing and Glynn asked what I was looking at. That’s when I made my mistake. I passed the laptop to him and said, “See, that’s what I’ve been talking about.”
I thought that was the end of it until two nights later when he confessed that he had ordered one for me so I would have something lightweight to take with me to dialysis! I could hardly wait for the new baby to arrive, and we heralded its arrival with as much joy as we did that of our two granddaughters, “Look how cute it is!” “I can’t believe how small it is!” “Oh! Look what it can do!”
Yeah, we are major geeks here. But oh my goodness, what this little machine can do! It almost takes some of the dread of dialysis away, knowing that I will have this lightweight tool at hand, ready to satisfy my techno-hungers. I am trying to keep it as free as possible of proprietary software, although it does have WindowsXP on it, and am using it for all the projects my 8th grade Desktop Publishing class is doing.
Bless Dear Husband’s heart. He sure knows how to keep my mind off my fears 
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