Caveat Emptor!

I have lost the 2nd Compaq laptop in 3 years due to motherboard failure this week. No warning, just suddenly dead and every boot attempt results in a beep code saying that the CMOS can't write to RAM. Replacing the CMOS battery and removing/testing the RAM didn't help, leaving the motherboard as the culprit. AGAIN. Last time it was the onboard video card. My MIL lost her Compaq to a motherboard problem about a year ago as well, so this is not a rare occurrence, apparently. Now I have to save up for another machine and pull data from my little hard drive again. So to those of you out there who are shopping for laptops: avoid the Compaqs! Anyone have a brand they particularly recommend? I'm looking at Toshiba or Lenovo, but I would rather have XP than Vista.

Fontitis

I am going to be redesigning my site soon. Whee! But of course, me being me, I am not content with the many site templates I've been looking through, so I am looking into designing my own (or basically, figuring out what I want and telling my husband to do it. :) ). So back to the 'me being me' thing, I don't like any of the fonts on our computer, so I am looking for good free fonts. Did you know that there are a CRAZY amount of free fonts out there? It's insane! I've been looking at them for only about an hour and I already have a headache and a stomachache. Or maybe I'm coming down with something. I don't know. But hopefully it will be worth it with a spectacular new site design.