Changes in Technology and Design

For my brithday this year I was given a glorious gift from my brother Bryan. For quite some time now I've been casually mentioning that I need a backup hard drive for my computer. I have well over 10,000 pictures on my computer and I honestly feel that I would be completely devastated if I were to loose any significant number of them. I have some various images that I've printed over time. Random photos posted on web pages and my blog, but would never be able to re-collect the bulk of them.

So, my dear brother bought me an amazing external hard drive. I was aiming for a small average sized amount of memory, but he went above and beyond. In addition to purchasing it, he even installed the hardware and helped me perform my first upload. It really is a weight lifted off my shoulders not worrying if my 4 or 5 year old computer will crash any day now erasing the memory.

In addition to my hard drive I got another rather large gift. My mom contributed to get me a coffee table for our living room! When Ryan purchased the house, neither of us had any real furniture to bring. With my taste for nice things, it's be a slow process gathering pieces that would fianlly furnish the house. For our living room, the missing pieces were tables (as we bought the couch and chair already). I can't wait to get it!