I found out on my way into work this morning that the DJs for my morning radio show are not only married, but expecting a baby in about a month! A friend of theirs who's a DJ for another radio station (they didn't say who or which station) who has a 2-year-old put together a song for them. It started just as I pulled into the office parking lot, and I sat in my car to listen to the whole thing, because it had me in stitches.

I'm a toddler - my goal is to kill myself!
I'm a toddler - I'm an evil little elf!
I jump on the bed
And fall on my head
And make you think I'm dead!
...
I like Cheerios
They fit good in my nose
Peanut butter will go far
In the VCR
Har, har, har!

I almost cried, I was laughing so hard.

Let's hear it for technology that actually works as advertised!!!

Matt bought a DiskOnKey recently. He ordered it Monday, it arrived yesterday, and so we've been playing with it.

He got the 256M version - which is twice as much storage as the Zip disk I've been known to haul back and forth between home and work, in about a third of the space. It looks kind of like one of those miniature highlighters, about as long as my middle finger, and somewhat wider.

When he showed it to me after work yesterday, I pulled the protective cap off, and plugged it into one of the USB slots on the back of my laptop. A little green light came on inside the keychain, and a few seconds later, a new disk volume appeared on my desktop. Ta-daa!

I poked around at it, looked at the files Matt had brought home from work, and then did the standard Mac-ejection technique. The volume disappeared from the desktop, and the little green light on the keychain started to blink slowly, like the sleeping laptop throb.

This morning, it was my turn to bring it to work to play with. Luckily, I have two USB slots right on the front of my desktop machine. This isn't a Mac; this is a Win2000 box. I plugged it in, and a little window popped up on my screen. "New Hardware Detected: DiskOnKey." Windows found the drivers, and voila! There it was in my drive list - "Removeable Media - H:" I opened it up, and there were the files I'd copied down from my laptop to bring in to work. (Along with the assortment of Mac-invisible files one always gets when using a disk on both a Mac and an Winbox.)

I am deeply impressed. Cross-platform hardware is always a little chancy, but this works flawlessly. And it's very cute, on top of that.

In a totally geeky kind of way, of course.

The weekend promises to be fun. Rachel is driving down for a last visit before she and her husband move to Chicago. Tonight's our usual gaming night, so she's going to pick up one of the party NPCs and play with us. And then tomorrow we'll all get together and go to the movies - Rachel's already seen Pirates of the Caribbean, but she admitted she wouldn't mind another go-round.

See you on the other side!

--Liz