Spinning on that dizzy edge

Guys! OMG GUYS! The Emperor is an author. He wrote a book in daycare, drawing the pictures himself and dictating the text to his teachers, who are in utter awe - "None of the kids have written a book before!"

It's three folded-up pages, bound together by tape and pure AWESOMESAUCE.

( Allow me to present this exciting new work )

*FLAILS* My son! He's so amazing! Pardon me while I go wipe away the gleeful mommy sniffles and try not explode from pride.

Have I mentioned that it's been a seesaw kind of week so far?

Monday, the husband called me to say that his car wouldn't start in the parking lot. This was an improvement on the "dying on the way to pick up the Emperor", but not quite as ideal as the "not starting in the garage". The last time it went in (about 3 weeks ago, which was the third time in as many months), the mechanic crawled around but couldn't find anything wrong. For all we know, he wriggled the right wires or something because it started back up just fine. He didn't charge us anything, so all we were out was the towing fee. We're hoping we can get an actual diagnosis this time, because paying to have it towed in once or twice a month is getting expensive.

But then! I got an email from Amazon yesterday that I'd been selected to be eligible for Round Four of the Customer's Vote dealio. I just had to be ready to click BUY! at 8:30 AM today. I got up early, and even with dropping off both the Emperor and the husband, got to work ahead of schedule. The magic moment rolled around, and a click and several minutes of waiting later, I scored an ASUS Eee PC 900 8.9-Inch Netbook for $129!

DUDE! The specs are just about perfect for my mobile needs: Intel Mobile Processor, 1 GB RAM, 12 GB Solid State Drive, XP Home, Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g), multiple USB ports, a VGA output for connecting to a monitor...About all it's missing is a DVD player, and I can certainly get one of those separately.

With this in hand, I can totally build my own tower (or rather, wave imperiously at my husband and have him build me one) for much cheaper than an all-encompassing laptop and to exacting specs for vidding and coding purposes.

*fingers crossed* that the car solution comes together just as neatly.

ETA: WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Amazon reports that it just shipped, and I could get it as early as tomorrow. Here's hoping UPS doesn't give me the no-signature runaround.