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Ordered Amy’s iMac

It took a little longer than I’d thought it would to sell the stock and mutual funds I was using to fund this and move the money around to the right places, but I just ordered the new iMac for Amy.

There was some last minute hesitation on if I was really going to max the thing out, or if I’d go with less memory and/or drive space to save a boatload of cash. In the end though, I decided to stick with my “max it out, by the time three years is up she’ll find a way to use it” philosophy. But Gulp. I could have spent a lot less and gotten something that would have been more than reasonable for her for now… but here we go.

Between the monthly private school bills and this, we’re now pretty much guaranteed to be cash poor for the rest of 2007. She’d better appreciate it and spend every moment for the next year thanking me!

Well… she is 11. So that won’t happen. As Brandy says, some shrieks of glee when it first arrives and gets set up, and then there won’t be another word of thanks ever. But hey, that’s the way it goes.

And we really need this. Continuing to share my iMac with her ever increasing needs for computer time wasn’t working. And Brandy’s cheap temporary laptop she bought in 2006 is literally falling appart. (It is on the agenda to replace in 2008.) So she needed a machine. Did she need THIS machine? Well, probably not.

But damn it, I want to give her the best I can manage, so I did.

Yes, I’m a Whore

Yup, added some Google Ads. Just thought I’d finally give them a shot. Cause I want that $5 every 10 months or whatnot from the random people who stumble on this site by accident and then stumble away again through one of those links.

So far just PSAs. We’ll see if anything else ever shows up and if so what. In part, I’m just curious about what will show up, cause I certainly don’t have enough traffic to make any actual cash. But I’ve been meaning to try this for literally years, so today was the day.

I’ll keep them up awhile. If they start to really annoy me, at some point I may get rid of them again.

Layout Changes

As you might have noticed, I’ve been futzing with the site layout a bit today. Basically I moved some things to a new right column and started letting the center column expand if you have a wider window.

I’ve also added the little “AbulReading” Google Reader widget so I can mark things I am reading there and think are interesting but don’t have the time or desire to explicitly blog about. Basically I’m putting anything there from the feeds I’m subscribing to that I actually bother to read rather than just skimming a headline or whatnot.

If I stick with Google Reader that will stay. If I don’t, it will go. We shall see. I may add other things as time goes on since the new column gives me more room to play.

Any thoughts or comments appreciated as usual.