Several weeks before I even thought about the Colorado trip I spilled a glass of wine and a bit splashed into my 2nd/backup notebook computer…  Now, I have spilled liquid in every computer (all notebooks) I’ve ever owned and feel that I have the dry out/clean up sticky key procedure down.  Ha – this one apparently splashed on some very sensitive something as it is well and truly dead.  It was due for replacement but I was trying to drag it out as I’m not really ready to go to Vista.  So much for “my” plans… 

BUT – if you happened to read a few posts back of my washing my Bluetooth headset – and I mean fully submerged – through the first rinse cycle even!  By the time I realized I had left the thing in the shirt pocket of a shirt I knew was in the wash, it had gone through the wash WITH detergent and the first rinse and I opened the machine which was full of water and had to find the shirt at the bottom.  Anyway, I let it “dry” for 24 hours and then plugged it into the charger…it’s little light came on indicating it was charging – huh….  The light starts at red, goes to yellow and then green when fully charged – it did all this.  I turned it on – got it’s blue light – the DARN thing is fine!  Well, I’m glad but it is a mystery to me how the headset could go through all it did and recover and a splash of wine wiped out the notebook computer.

Weather humor… it is HOTTTT!  90’s – that is HOT in MT – upper 80’s is hot in MT.  We had upper 90’s and even 102 last Friday – then some normal and now on our way for another heat wave.  I’m kind of a weather junky – one of things I like is the Forecast Discussion on NOAA.  This is where the meterologists write about what the various models say and what they (the people) think and how they are coming up with their weather guesses – serious weather lingo usually…  So today:

 NOAA:  “Sunday there is another small change to the pattern as a disturbance rides the west side of the ridge and brushes northwest Montana.  Areas South and East of Missoula (NOT ME in Kalispell area) will see only minor changes in air mass.  North and West of Missoula (ME) will feel a more noticeable drop in temperatures.”

 here is my favorite part… “(Most valleys still in the 90’s – so you can leave the parka packed away)” – VERY funny…