So I got this free laptop from my work. No big deal. They were purging all their old junk and distributing it to interested parties. I have this crashed Dell laptop at home that I've been wanting to get the files off of but was too lazy and cheap to go out and buy the equipment I needed to do it. So when this free lappy op came up, I jumped on it!

Last night, a friend of ours came over while I was digging into the guts of old dead Dell. "What are you doing?" he asked?

"I'm switching out these hard drives," I told him.

"You know how to do that?" he exclaimed.

"What?" I said. "You take out this one and put in that one. What?"

When I got to work today I told my co-worker that my plan was successful and she could hardly believe it! I thought, yeah, I'm a little more tech savvy than she is. But when I went into systems and let them in on my supposedly minor success story, they were genuinely aghast!

"Oh my god! That worked! Wow! Do you want a job here?" Uh... Okay I don't know. I guess I thought that the people in systems, the people that worked with computers, would be a little less surprised that I switched out hard drives. I guess I didn't think it would be a big deal. I mean, it doesn't take super powers, does it? Is there some techno secret I don't know about? Was there some law code that I broke? Was I not supposed to be able to do that? I don't know, I just did it. No big.

But I suppose it doesn't matter. I kinda feel good, like something I thought was mediocre was really kind of super. I'd actually never swapped hard drives before, so who knows? I could have burned the house down!

Now I have this Toshiba with a Dell hard drive, and once I get the files off of it and find a wireless card I think I'll give it to my son so he can play some games or watch movies or what have you. Six year olds have their own laptops, right? Anyway, I'll go ahead and take my place on the pedestal here at work as the Techno Mama, even though I still don't think it's that big of a deal!