Wil's Frends and the Time Mushen* by Wil

Wil was walking in the woods and fell down a hole. He was about to fall down into water and stop. Wil thought he was flying. Then two friends of his, the Dukes, appeared. I mean out of nowhere. But a time machine was with them.

"Where'd you get that?" asked Wil.
"Stole it," replied Rachel.
"Why?" asked Wil.
"The villain stole it from our dad," said William.
"The who?" said Wil.
"Villain," replied William.
Wil's eyes bugged out.
"What?" said Wil.
"Villain," said William.
"Did you say villain?"
"Yes," said William.
"Villain?" repeated Wil.
"Last time yes!"
Wil thought he would puke.
"Anyway," said William, "let's go get Beth."
"What?" asked Wil.
"You know," said Rachel.
"I do? I do!"

After they picked up Beth, they picked up Aubrey. Then Beth asked, "What did you pick us up for?"
"Bowler Hat Guy is on the move, and he's looking for you, Wil," William replied.
"Why me?" asked Wil.
"You've got the time machine he needs."
Wil remembered his time machine. But they were driving in William's time machine that Wil helped build. Wil thought that the Bowler Hat Guy was wanting to be king.

And he was right. Not too far away was the Bowler Hat Guy. He was following them, hoping that they would give him directions. Then Wil saw him and said, "To my house!" Then they zoomed to his house. (Picture of) four time machines in the races.

Doris went out of the ship and chased Wil. He operated time travel and poof disappeared.

To be continued.


*Wil's Friends and the Time Machine, edited for spelling and punctuation by Momma. The editor regrets that the original may be too hard to decipher for the uninitiated.

He's always Harry Potter-n to me

The twins don't pronounce his name 'Harry Pottern' anymore, but I still prefer it. Two stories that come from Christine having recently read them Prisoner of Azkaban:

1. Christine loves Jim Dale's reading of the Harry Potter books. She basically listens all the way through all of the books and then starts over. Sometimes she throws in a Jane Austen book on tape in the middle. And she mostly listens in the kitchen while she cooks or washes dishes, so, hey, she can listen to whatever she wants as far as I'm concerned. (Well, not Rush Limbaugh or similar...).

Anyway, we often describe Jim Dale in passing as 'the best reader in the world' or some such. But Bethy is firm that she likes Christine's reading better than Jim Dale's. I think, in Christine's estimation, this is about the nicest compliment she has ever gotten.

2. One night Wil said 'If I was a student at Hogwarts, and they had Guard Boys, and a dementor tried to mess with me, I'd be, like, 'Oh yeah, well I know a lot of spells! EX-PECT-O PA-TRO-NUM!'

What's better than working on one laptop?

We drove about 6 hours Friday night, heading back home from visiting my baby brother, Ryan, and his family in Houston. We finally made it to Vicksburg, Mississippi and up to our room in the Holiday Inn Express. The twins were ready for bed, in their pajamas, and I pulled out my laptops to start working. I said, 'Hey Bethy, do you know what's better than working on one laptop?' ;-)

I had supposed when I got my new work laptop that I would switch completely to it and pass on my personal laptop to Christine.

But I don't like my company Dell Latitude D620 as well as I like my personal Compaq Presario V5000. I much prefer the Compaq's HD widescreen and the 'touch' of the touchpad and the wider keyboard layout.

Plus, I can only access the company intranet on the company laptop because it requires VPN. And the company network requires Internet Explorer which I can use, of course, but which I do not like to use regularly. I'm a power Firefox user, using many keyboard shortcuts and keyword bookmarks that don't work in IE. There are still many things I can do for work outside of the company intranet, with Firefox, but going back and forth between VPN/IE and normal Internet/Firefox is annoying.

Solution: Work on both laptops at the same time. And it's working great.

Question: Is Christine left in the lurch? I don't think so, but she can comment here differently, if necessary. I can easily make one laptop at least partially available to her almost any time. And she still has the desktop...

We'll see how we adapt going forward, but that's the current configuration.

What can make you happier than opening your son's door to check on him and finding him reading his new Bible that he got for Easter?

Nope. I can't think of anything, either :-)

Probably too early to call him Bible Boy, but it has a nice ring to it ;-)

I said, 'Someone in this van has really good taste.' And Bethy said "Who, you and me?"

;-)