Cruising Craigslist, and Sitting On A Laptop

So a few months back, someone sat on my laptop.
Turns out, this isn't a great idea.

This is what happens:

This is a quite new laptop, Windows 8.1, with one of those

touch screens that ... well, that I hate.  Horrible, horrible computer.

But I did not assassinate it.  I swear, Judge, it wasn't me!

Sometimes the cracks in the screen smoosh together and you can

hardly tell there's any problem; at other times, it's a hot mess.

Are these screens replaceable?

Or should I ask Santa for a new laptop that does not have a touch screen,

or Windows 8.1 because Windows 8.1 is simply awful?

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Okay.  Enough complaining.

Time for some threats.

Dear Craigslist:  It's been three weeks, and I still have not found our

perfect coffee table for our Study.  What the heck?

I'm running out of patience.  Let's see this week's haul of possibilities:

Oval.  Big.  Nicely beat up, so cheap.  And salvage-able.  Maybe. 

 Almost square.  Rustic.  A bit of ironwork on the bottom,  Sturdy.  Another maybe,

Oh.  Oh.  OH.

What have we HERE?

Look at this cute cottage-y coffee table!

We can forgive it for not being square, it's big, 

it's got chubby little legs and scallops.

Can you see it here, in this room, below, painted a nice

new color (what color?) that will bring out its

cottage-y, scallop-y adorableness?

I didn't really expect to find this particular table.

I thought I wanted a more sophisticated one, maybe with some

brass or glass or something shiny, or possibly iron, or an industrial style

. . . not one that looks lifted out of a Mary Engelbreit illustration.

But I kinda love it.

Wish me luck; I hope it's still for sale.

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Last weekend, I spent a wonderful few days

with my two daughters in Washington DC.

Anne lives there now; Alida came East from Los Angeles

for our "ladies' weekend."  Such fun!  And so rare.

Anne and Alida, selfie-ing front of the Capitol.

Mostly we talked, and ate, and talked, and shopped, and ate ...

but we did a little of the tourist stuff on Saturday.

Including some of the highlights, like the FDR memorial.

Here's what my darling daughters took a picture of:

"Look, Ma!  You have that table!"

Oh my.

What have I done to my children, that they notice the furniture?

I am so proud.  :-)

Meanwhile, it is Halloween, and so far,

at That Old House, not one little beggar

has knocked on the door.

Where are the children?

Don't they hear the silent song of our little ghosties?

Happy Halloween, my friends!  -- Cass

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