Doing my morning CA stuff I suddenly remembered I'd had a CA dream. The Mist land I was defending was under attack and I ran out tokens healing my fellow defenders just as the last attacks to sack were coming in.

Preparing to record that reminded me I had another dream - the Albany side of the family was gathered for a funeral and I ended up with a basement bed assignment and somebody, not a family member, maybe one of the young friends of family, snuck into my bed after lights-out.

Also stuff about heavy rains and flooding, but we were good because the house (or condo, or townhouse or w/e) was high enough up the hillside and the basement was sealed against flooding.

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Turbofrog T06-42054 USB2.0 50-in-1 Card Reader/Writer
When I replaced the Vostro with the ThinkPad, one of the functions I lost was the SD card reader. My camera saves to SD card. Not microSD, just plain old Secure Digital. Needless to say it's an aggravation to connect and boot up the Vostro everytime I take some pictures, and then RDP into the Vostro and move pic files from SD card to network share. And that's infrequent enough that it's also always a hassle of updating Java and Adobe Reader and Windows itself.

SO I thought, how expensive could a USB SD card reader be? Not very, it turns out. $6.35 with tax for the Turbofrog unit. Combine this with the ever-collapsing cost-per-GB of SD cards: e.g. 32GB SDHC for $30 or less (core and music backups, but maybe not the software library), or under $40 for 64GB SDXC (all the archives ever, even enormous things like the half-gig Win7 "XP Mode" VM installer). Google claims Staples sells 128GB SDXCs for $60 ($80-85 is the lowest elsewhere).