Jenny sent me a cool website: restaurants.com. It’s simple: you buy a gift card there worth a certain amount but only pay a fraction of that amount for it. A $25 card might cost you $10 instead. The participating restaurants are interesting local establishments that you might not have heard of, so it’s a great way to explore the area and try new places. I just got gift cards to five different restaurants, including Addison’s Magic Time Machine and a special place in Richardson where I plan to take Jenny for our first date after Brenden is born. Bon appetit!

The following strange things happened on Wednesday:

1. While listening to the blues station on our digital cable, I heard a blues song about a woman whose husband/babydaddy left her for a man. I’ve heard of situations like that, but not in a blues song. Sign of the times, I guess.
2. We visited some friends from church who have been living in a hotel for 100 DAYS and counting due to a bad water leak in their house. As if that weren’t enough, the woman was 6-7 months pregnant with TWINS and had a 13-year-old daughter. The twins weighed 7.5lbs EACH. The house repair is taking forever and won’t be done for several more weeks. I’ve never met anyone who lived in a hotel for months at a time, much less with a teenaged daughter and two newborns.
3. While visiting them, I held one of the baby boys. Suddenly I felt a warm, wet spot on my shirt and looked down. Apparently diapers are not foolproof.
4. That night, Jenny and I got kicked out of the pool by our courtesy officer. And no, not for skinnydipping. Apparently some of the pool lights aren’t working, and the city said we had to close the pool after dark.

We’ll see what Thursday brings, other than a much-needed night off from work.

In light of the constant but small threat of hard drive crashes and other computer problems, I decided to protect our personal files by buying an external hard drive. About the size of an internal CD or DVD drive but much more attractive, every morning it automatically backs up the “My Documents” section of my computer where all of our personal files live. I can also press a button on the drive and back up the files any time I want. It was about $100 at Wal-Mart and very easy to set up. If/when we ever get a laptop, it will also provide an easy way to transfer our files from the old computer to the new.