dira | WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

helaaspindakaas wanted to stop at the apartment complex office on the way home, because he'd been tracking a package and knew it had been delivered. When we pulled up, there was the UPS truck - the UPS truck with Blondo on it! I hopped out along with the boy, and we followed the UPS guy inside. When we mentioned our apartment number, the UPS guy said he had another package - a Dell computer - for that address, but he couldn't leave it. I raised my hand. "That's mine."

He went outside to get it, and I followed him out and signed on the little pad (I have to say, I was a little disturbed that he didn't make any attempt to check my assertion that it was my computer, but then maybe I have an honest face? And it is my computer...) and he put a box in my hands, and!

Stanley Raymond Daniel Alec Illya Spike Hutchinson is home and up and running, two hours ahead of schedule! w0000000000000t!

Even now I am downloading my 1,500 or so mp3s from Mark Pierre's hard drive (via

iuliamentis's computer, Frenchiepants, since Blondo already had the first crash of his young life while I was trying, fruitlessly, to get him to acknowledge the external combo drive, whose instructions were obviously written by people who'd never actually seen the device) and the text files - including, yes, my safe and sound copy of the hockey!AU - are already installed.

Now, background, background, who's got the background...