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It may not be a big deal to anyone but me and my family, but we now have a wireless printer for our laptops. I’ve spent  hours working on various configurations that never worked properly. Yesterday, however, after about 4 hours of fiddling and just when I decided it was not going to work, both my daughter’s and my laptops were able to print to our new wireless printer. Woo hoo!

Today looks like this outside. Misty, dark and rainy. This photo was taken in Wisconsin, I believe. We needed rain here in Bethesda - we had a record-breaking spell of no rain, then the sky opened and we’ve had rain since Wednesday evening.

Writing this at a motel in Elgin. It’s pretty weird staying at a motel in my hometown - not entirely unpleasant, but not wonderful either. At breakfast I wondered why these people - some families with children - are in Elgin. Perhaps they are out of town relatives invited to someone’s wedding. Perhaps they are on their way from somewhere to somewhere else and this is a stop on the way. Perhaps, like us, they are here for a funeral and didn’t want to put anyone out by asking to stay with them.

Am I the only one who thinks this is kind of weird?

An exercise bike for toddlers that has educational benefits. What happened to playing outside in sandboxes and running around and jumping. Or riding a tricycle? Or climbing a tree?

Maybe I am out of it - after all, I had kids in the last century - but this just rubs me the wrong way.

And when are they going to make one for grown-ups? I mean one that teaches us while we fake-cycle.