What you probably don't know about how I function in the PC world: My husband and I share one laptop by swapping two different hard drives in and out. The monitor on my otherwise perfectly good pc went out.

Here's the thing ... well a couple of things ...

• We ordered a monitor.
• It was scheduled to come in today or tomorrow from OfficeMax.
• Billy needs to pick up a cable and a power cord for it.
• We are having a snow/ice storm.
• I kind of don't expect delivery of the monitor until this thaws ... next week.
• No way Billy is going to go trapesing around to find a cable, etc.
• Billy can work from home using his laptop
• I can't use his laptop with my hard drive in it at the same time he's using it.
• I have an old rebel laptop that refuses to die.
• Rebel is slow and it's pixels are going gray. In fact this very line has a horizontal gray line straight through it.
• Most of my writing is on the other hard drive.
• It is possible, with effort and searching, to create an ensemble that will allow me to access the files on the other drive via Rebel.

You want the really short version?

• I've been kicked off my favorite / speedy pc.
• I'm limping along.
• I'm building a contraption that will let me access all my files.

I'll see you much later this afternoon or evening.