August 26: my baby is cuter than yours

I made the kids some souped-up chocolate milk drinks before gymnastics: chocolate, yes, but also nutritional powder and protein powder.

Oh, and sugar.

Later, after enduring a trip to Target with me, Anna and I hung out at the gym. Somewhere along the way our Kindle was lost. Knowing me, it was lost. My brain says it was stolen. Actually, my brain says that I had it, but then convinced myself I didn't, and then convinced myself I did again. The facts remain: unless it's in a very unexpected place in the car (possible; unlikely); or the kids have put it somewhere (more possible; less unlikely), it's missing.

The upshot is that I changed my Amazon password for the first time in half a decade. And that old password? It ranks "very weak" on the password testers, so probably good to have changed. Now it's only marginally more difficult for hackers to spend hundreds of dollars on whatever hackers buy on Amazon. I'd buy gift cards or chocolate.

The lost Kindle is just one more in a series of ways All Of Our Technology Is Dying All Around Us, my future autobiographical novel/very accurate description of the past few days in our household. I'm currently convinced this laptop will explode in my lap. If it requires electricity and has a microprocessor, it is probably doomed.