Managed to get through the day with only a few private tears. Heck, he's just going to college, he's not going to war! Perspective is everything.

De-cluttered my friend's computer of a lot of annoying toolbars that had managed to insert themselves into her browsers. Fixed the settings on Word so she can find the formatting tools she actually uses in the place she expects to find them. Sounds small, but if you're working and everything is a jumble, it's annoying.

Kid got his computer running online after I took my laptop with me to meet him for lunch. After our pasta we went to Barnes and Noble where he logged on and finished the required setup and is happily facebooking and whatever. For the second time this month, Mom was collateral damage after he left his facebook logon info on someone else's computer and they thought it would be funny to change things like his dating preferences. I love him whatever, but I don't want to learn stuff like this on facebook! (The young women at U of AZ are in luck!) It sounds like his roommate came about the same distance he did (delivered by his parents from near San Francisco) and is a violinist. He also discovered the walls are thin and the doors are like paper. Conversations heard all around. It'll be different!

Nevada Barr will keep me company tomorrow.

SRS