explanation

Tara, you are not a ditz! I was thinking that I should explain bloglines here anyway... I didn't know about it until another of my blogging friends mentioned it a couple times and I took the risk of sounding like a dummy and asked her about it. You go to bloglines.com and "subscribe" to all the blogs you like to read. Then you can just check that one site and see who has updated. I only have 7 subscribers, I think, and one of those is myself. But for some reason it is making me feel totally rejected to have bloglines ignore my feed!! After Tara updated to Beta I was still able to see her blog. But I think ever since I updated mine has not been working. I tried re-subscribing and I think others have too, but it hasn't worked. So, that's what bloglines is. Check it out. And if anyone new subscribes to me and it works, let me know.

Yesterday we ran out to buy a new printer cartridge. We burned through the color cartridge pretty quickly, with all Henry's printing and the papers Kate needs to print for school. I tried telling Henry "the printer isn't working" to put him off and avoid the time and expense involved in buying a new cartridge. Well, that didn't even last a day. It turns out that printing a page has become his transition off of the computer. When he is able to print, he takes the paper with him and leaves the computer without a complaint or a look back.

But Friday night, when he had to get off the computer and couldn't print a page...

He couldn't eat his dinner, he couldn't watch a movie--I was even willing to watch the Power Rangers DVD- just me and him! (Daddy and Tommy went to the high school football game together and had a ton of fun!)

All he could do was talk about the thing he wanted to print, and when could he print it? Maybe tomorrow? Maybe later? We do have a new printer cartridge! The printer is working! Mommy, I want to print Power Rangers...

It went on until he fell asleep, still talking about it. And it was the first thing he said when he woke up.

So we went to Staples and bought 2 printer cartridges- color will only be for special occasions, black in white will be the default. Sheesh. This kid has me trained.

It has been a boys' football weekend. Bill took Tommy to the game Friday night, and then took Henry to a local college game yesterday.

I guess that's all to report for now. Hope you are all having a beautiful weekend.