I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

I have always loved Halloween. Maybe it is all the candy or maybe it is getting to play dress up, but for sure I have always liked pumpkin carving. Though, I haven’t gotten to do much of it myself. I only have the vaguest memory of carving a pumpkin as a child, and the last time Matt and I tried to carve one together it turned into an class on Matt’s perfection in everything. Don’t get me wrong, we had an amazing pumpkin, but I wasn’t really allowed to help.  So, to make up for it this year, Matt and I got a pumpkin from Dougherty orchards, and I got to be in charge of carving it. (more…)

While I was on my blogging hiatus, I added a new gadget to my collection:  A red Lenovo IdeaPad S10, 10 inch netbook.  I have been wanting a laptop for some time now, but the idea of lugging around a 15 inch or 17 inch behemoth never appealed to me.  They are far too heavy and unwieldy.   So I began to covet the Lenovo X-series laptops that are direct competitors to the Macbook Air.  They have a big screen, are super light weight, and have lots of power; however, they are ridiculously expensive.  This is where the new Lenovo netbooks came into the picture.

Matt mentioned off-hand one night when we were discussing “the lap top of my dreams” that I should just get a netbook. After some thorough online research, I agreed with him whole heatedly, and eight months later I absolutely love my Lenovo s-10.

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For those of you who don’t know, the title of this blog post is an often mis-quoted reference to a 1985 Sally Field utterance when she won and academy award.  I can honestly say that I understood the awe and shock that propelled Sally Field to speak these much parodied words this morning when I woke up and realized my blog had received 1600 hits overnight.

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I have been a Microsoft user for a majority of my life. I started out with a 66 megahertz computer running MS-DOS on a very fancy black and green monitor. However, I recently became a self-proclaimed Linux lover. For those of you who might not know, Linux is an open source operating system that competes with Microsoft Windows and Apple’s OS X. My first experience with Linux left me with a bad taste in my mouth, but the distribution of Linux known as Ubuntu 7.10 (aka “Gutsy Gibbon”), the version prior to the current version of Ubuntu, has impressed me enough to convince me to completely switch my personal computer to Linux. It has been a fascinating adventure, and I’ve learned a lot about the inner workings of my computer.

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