Ginger Unplugged

Yes, another tragedy in the family. The New Yorkers said they brought my laptop to life for an hour. Then it died. It's gone. They retrieved my hard drive information, though, and are sending that and everything back. My husband is going to sell my laptop's little parts on eBay--at least the parts that work. He told me the news as he presented me with THIS--a new MacBook with the Leopard operating system. Aaaah. I had very mixed feelings about the whole thing. But I think this laptop and I were meant to be together and there was no other way than the death of my other computer. I wish I could have been there when it woke up for an hour. At least it got to see New York before it gave up the ghost. Everyone should get to do that.

Last night son's remaining turtle, Claws died. This morning Slither, the long-tailed lizard, followed Claws into the great reptile habitat in the sky. We are thinking, sadly, that we have not kept them warm enough somehow even though we did have two lights...we're not sure. At any rate, we are coping. I perhaps should have known when Slither was rolling around in his cage that something was up. Do lizards normally roll? And when he let us pet him last night, I just thought he was being friendly. Maybe he was. We are better with frogs, fish and stray cats I think. But my son really did all we knew how.