Dude, I got you a...

Sunday night was rough, got the "wish you'd do more around the house" speech from the wife and I was upset that I can't seem to calm my son down. He's been fussy over the past week and to be honest, sometimes I do take it personally.

So when I got home Monday, I had two options, forget Sunday night or sink back into my depression to keep up appearances.

All of you at home are probably saying "choice A", as if this was a game show and you were yelling at the screen while a dumbass contestant stutters and ums as the host gets ready to say "I need your answer please." Bonus points to all of you who said, the dumbass picked "choice B."

Which was the worst possible choice to pick, because my wife had organized a "Daddy appreciation" thing where my daughter met me at the door and gave me cards she made for me.

Then my wife tells me that she got our early Father's and Mother's day gift today and would I like to see it. I was suspicious, who was the gift from ("us, to ourselves"), why did we get it now ("I didn't think I'd we'd get it this quick") and so on.

I was expecting a treadmill, it's something we've talked about forever and if we're talking gifts for the both of us. But, the boxes underneath the blanket were too small to be parts of a treadmill.

I lifted the blanket to find a new computer, a Dell, actually. My computer was still good, but was experiencing more and more problems, including losing sound recently and a few weeks ago it wouldn't even start.

As if that wasn't enough, she had also gotten us the flatscreen monitor. Rock.

Of course, as with all things, there is some bad news...this is the first time I got a new computer while the other one still functioned ("Starscream...wait...I still function!") The past two computers were emergency replacements for computers that had crashed and had no hope of ever retrieving the data on them. So I'm trying to figure out the best way to transfer the files and now, it seems, the old computer will go in our bedroom for my wife to use while I'm on the new one.

It's not bad news, per se, but it's a pain trying to figure out the cheapest way to do this, especially since we're probably going to have to set up a wireless network to get both computers on the net.

But Dude, I got a Dell...