Zoe and I are going down to Tacoma tomorrow to see her Mom at Western Sate Hospital. She is a long term resident in the dementia/Alzheimer's ward. We always bring down a dinner of her favorite dishes. I have the squash souffle in the oven now. I will finish cooking the rest tomorrow.

I finished loading software on my new Dell Mini 9. I've loaded Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver MX, Cubase LE 4, Open Office, and assorted smaller programs. The Little Dell has a 16 GB hardrive and I still have over 8 GB left plus another 8 GB on an SD card in the built-in SD card slot. I won't be storing much data on this machine. It's connected to my Big Dell desktop via a wireless network so I keep my data files on the Big Dell. The main usablilty problems are more my getting used to a laptop trackpad than the small size. The small size is a real plus in carrying it around! I really like it.

While I will be using the Little Dell for a lot of things (more than I originally thought), the primary purpose was to be able to print on my HP B9180. I bought it used last May and it's been sitting in myt basement waiting to be hooked up to a computer. Last night I started setting it up to find that the print heads were clogged from sitting. This did not make me happy. If it was an Epson I would be really be unhappy but the HP has removable and replacable heads so the worst case situation would be needing to buy new printheads. I took the printheads out and cleaned them and ran numerous cleaning cycles and 3 of the 4 heads are fine now and the last one is close. I will try some more cleaning tonight. So close!