I spent most of the day trying to get my laptop onto the corporate network. After over a year and a half of using the same network card, only three days after switching backpacks, I lost my network card. Normally this would not pose a problem but that same computer has chosen to not connect to any network without a network card. Database work without a network is like trying to do airtraffic control without radar or radio communication with airplanes. So I haggled around for an out of date network card and then borrowed a USB watch that a cubicle neighbor, who I hadn't spoken to in the full year and a half in order to install the out of date Cisco software to run the network card. It was all fruitful and I felt quite proud of myself.

Meanwhile at home Madeline was wreaking havoc on Sarah because she has finally cut the beginnings of her first tooth.