Happiest Nerd Ever

Wm is the happiest nerd ever! As anyone who has spoken to Wm for longer than 5 minutes in the last few months knows, he broke our MacBook and has been forced to use his school laptop (which is a crappy ChromeBook he can't play his fancy games on). He spends about 90% of his waking moments either begging for a new computer, pouting because he does not have a new computer, or complaining about his ChromeBook. Well, because all the kids get laptops at his school, they have a full time "tech team" to help students/teachers with any computer difficulties. Wm decided to take the broken MacBook in to ask the tech team about it. And, lo and behold, the main Tech Guy said he could fix it. It just needed some new parts. (We knew this, but didn't tell Wm because it would cost $250 to repair and it didn't make sense to us to spend that money on an older computer and figured he could rough it on the ChromeBook for a while and learn a valuable lesson about caring for his things.)

WELL - the Tech Guy is going to fix it for Wm FOR FREE with parts from one of his personal computers he no longer uses. "Overjoyed" does not even begin to describe how Wm is feeling. The computer should be ready for him to pick up today. Before he went to bed last night, it was like Christmas. He couldn't sleep he was so excited. I asked him to write a nice thank you note to the Tech Guy (and included a Starbucks gift card!) and Wm composed a dissertation on gratitude. Ha! 

Luna was VERY SAD when Flip left for his evening park excursion. She had been busily rubbing herself all over his face and purring and Flip was all, "get off me, clingy!" when it was time to go to the park. So then, after the door closed behind him, this was Luna:

Large, smelly friend! Where did you go??? TAKE ME!

Wm has been watching some weird British rapper who I can't even understand. He sort of scat-raps. I had to bribe Wm with all sorts of things to get him to let me publish this video (mostly, it was just a chocolate covered peppermint Oreo):



And, here is a twofer. It is Flip being a weirdo (always fun!) and Steve singing in the background (again!):


Steve and I are both busy bees today! I am meeting a kitchen flooring guy at home to give us an estimate and he is going to a stone countertop showroom (in Plain City - but near his work!) at lunch to get an estimate on white quartz countertops. When both our jobs are over, our kitchen should be supes snazzy! We also plan a new white subway tile backsplash and white, under-mount sink. Bright and open! (This is a compromise because Steve wanted to gut our kitchen and make it all brand new and I didn't want to lose the character of our old house - so we are keeping the cool old wood cabinets that are in good shape, but getting rid of the shitty peel and stick floor and weird tile countertop. Win-win! I get to keep the one thing that is original and historic and we are losing the things are newer and not great.)