A Rookie Blogger

A new blog of my very own! I've been saying since the spring that I wanted to start a blog, but I knew I wouldn't have time until summer break rolled around. Blogging seems so narcissistic and self-indulgent, but who cares, right?

Chad set me up with my blog (Isn't he sweet?) and apparently the first thing you have to do is name your blog. The naming process stressed me out a little. It's almost like naming a child, and those of you who know us know how much trouble we had with that. Chad suggested "Brynnsights" or "Brynntuition"--and as a matter of fact, those are not taken, if you can imagine that! We checked. But I decided to go with something else, so for all those Brynn's out there starting a blog maybe we can have a small stipend if you decide to go with one of our names.

Are there any rules of etiquette regarding blogging? I don't have any idea. I haven't even spent much time reading blogs, much less writing one. I'm a rookie blogger--do I need to set some goals or have a mission statement or something? I will primarily be using this blog to write about daily occurrences. I have relatives in Sweden, Arizona, and California so maybe this will be a way for them to keep up with what Henry and the rest of the family is up to. Henry is changing so quickly it is hard to keep up with his little stages--even for us!

On another note: MY BROTHER IS AWESOME! (Genius brothers sorta run in the family, and my brother is no exception.) Thanks to him I am sitting here with my new laptop on my back patio posting my first blog. The temperature is perfect and the sun is just fading behind the horizon. Here's how it happened:

Yesterday he came over to try to fix my dinosaur computer. It was really slow and locking up and crashing all the time. He said he felt certain he could fix it, and in fact, it is working much faster now, but in the process he asked if I was sure I didn't just want a new one. He said (really politely), "The good news is that Windows Millennium was the last version of Windows that really sucked." I guess he felt I needed to be brought up to the modern age. I had been thinking about getting a laptop ever since I took my dinosaur in to MegaByte about 6 months ago and the guy behind the counter asked me if I was sure I wanted to invest in fixing it. Anyway, that's how it all happened and now after many hours of shopping and hooking up stuff yesterday, here I am tonight enjoying my new computer--thanks bro.

Chad and I really have had an exciting summer, so maybe tomorrow I'll get to the meat of what we have been doing.