As I sit here in my office at the Mother House tending to a computer issue with Sister J and the Dell Gold technician by way of conference call, fleeting thoughts about the weather keep popping into my head. This morning Weather Dude announced that we will be experiencing some seriously icky rain and ice after midnight, potentially weighing down trees and power lines across the area. This is not good news to my ears, because well… there goes the Internet Saturday morning. *iggs*

And the Catholic Son will attempt using the ice factor to his advantage by trying to get out of attending mass again. I know this. Because that’s what he does. Always. But I’m already ahead of him on that game. (Sorry dude.)

Meanwhile, Sister J seems to have some sort of bios/boot sector problem and keeps getting that dreaded ‘Non-system disc error’ when she attempts to boot up her computer, even though she swears there’s ABSOLUTELY NO FLOPPY IN THE A: DRIVE. Fearless warrior/Gold tech man, Mike, has been all over the issue for 2 hours now, and so far he’s had Sister J hop up & down on one foot and stand on her head while hitting the scroll lock/alt-f/F2/F12 key combination with her toes.

Only… what’s that you say?

Yes, Sister. Take the floppy out of the drive before starting it up next time. Problem solved, OS repair and all.

Fresh baked cookies are in order. I’m just sayin’.

The Catholic Hubs and I just finished having lunch at Arby’s, but this was no ordinary lunch. Nuh-uh. Why? Well, Hubs leaked some secret insider information having to do with the selection of a new Nebraska Cornhusker football coach. Oh yes he did! So now I must spill the beans right here in bloggerville, because that’s what blogs are all about: bean spilling information disseminating.
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Happy Thanksgiving from me and the big Catholic Family! (Because I know they want to see themselves on my blog, that’s why.)

Last night I thought it would be a good idea to visit a Caribou Coffee house before heading out of the Twin Cities, because Caribou closed shop back home leaving me with 2 loaded gift cards and nowhere to cash in on them. But then I had this ‘light bulb’ moment called: Go online and buy a pound of dark roast, that way we can make our way back home just a little bit quicker. So here we are on the road again, I-35 to be exact, southward bound with me surviving on Diet Dr. Pepper all fine and dandy. But I’ll be looking forward to getting that coffee later, mark my word.

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