Slightly Productive

I am being slightly productive today. I finished staining the deck. I will never again decide to stain wood a color that is not a natural one. We chose this really pretty "indian red" deck stain. It is absolutely gorgeous, but it is not a natural color for wood. It was a pain in the behind to put on. I won't say how long it took me to finish the deck - I would sound REALLY lazy!

My second task was to hook my desk top up to the internet. Let me explain what happened first. We have been updating the inside of the house and the room that my computer was in was also doubling as a guest room for awhile. To do that we needed to move my computer out of the room and put in a bed. Well, when the house guest left, we never put my computer back in the room. So that was the task that Barry did a few weeks ago. It has been sitting there ever since collecting dust. So today, I decided that it was a good day to hook it up to the internet - what a project that turned out to be. Since it has been unplugged (from the internet) for almost a year, it needs so many updates. It needs exactly...........................(the suspense is killing you) 102 updates! Since that will take a little bit of time to complete. It seemed like a perfect time to come blog about my day. To explain a little bit further, since I started back to school, I have been using a laptop that Barry bought me for classes. I have not needed my desk top in so long that I really didn't miss it. Now that it will be up and running, I will no longer have to hear the kids fight our Barry's computer. I am sure that they will fight over it because it is the nicer one - but still, the concept of no more fighting is nice!!!