I spent the better part of the weekend upgrading our computers to Windows 7 and setting up a new laptop for Jeanine with Microsoft office. It is amazing to me how difficult this is and I cannot imagine how anyone without serious technical chops can overcome the numerous challenges and incompatibilities I encountered. Fortunately, all of the problems I encountered were known issues and with the help of Google I was able to locate the needed fixes. Hopefully, this effort will pay dividends now that I have all PCs in the house synchronized with the same configuration of operating systems and applications. Next weekend I will tackle the kids computers (all Macs) which in my prior experiences do not play nicely on PC networks.