THE NEW TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER: Ah…well…working fine — phenomenally, even. Hey, it’s a Toshiba, a company whose laptop computers are the very best in my opinion. However, installing my favorite programs is a bit of a slow process as always, and Word 2007, which came pre-installed, makes me nervous until I try it for awhile. I’m just not ready to bring all my novels-in-progress into it. I brought in TW, but only a copy of the final ms. I won’t jeopardize my work by trusting something I’m not familiar with until I’m dead certain that disaster won’t strike.
Resetting all the whitelists and approved senders is a tough process in email. There are other things, as well, that always make getting a new computer a trial for me. I just figure that it will take several weeks before I get back to being able to use my computer as the tool it is, rather than me being the tool it presently needs to come up to my requirements.
NEW NOVEL FODDER: Today in the NYTimes, an article on surrogate mothers — wombs for rent — grabbed my eye and imagination. What would happen, I wonder, were the parents of the contracted baby to die prior to its birth? That question alone provokes a novel. Two other possible stories came out of that one article, as well. Perhaps I’ll explore them more thoroughly, or maybe I won’t. But the fodder is wonderful.
AND THE ANSWER IS…
Found one answer to the question of WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PARENTS’ DIE question posed above here: http://www.surrogacysolutions.net/tsurrogate.htm
If one intended parent dies, the other will take sole custody of the baby and fulfill the contract as if both were still living. If both intended parents die before the birth of the child, the surrogate mother will relinquish the child at birth to the person named in the Wills of the intended parents to serve as guardian of the child. Intended parents must provide Surrogacy Solutions with the full address and other contact information for guardianship. Intended parents are required to carry life insurance naming the unborn child or a trust for the exclusive benefit of the unborn child as the beneficiary. If the intended father contributed sperm, samples of his DNA are to be preserved in the event of his death prior to the birth of the baby. The death of the intended parents prior to the birth of the child will not result in you being obligated or permitted to raise the child.
Like I said, food for thought. 
Recently:
- The Deepening is Open Again!
- Writing Lies From Truth
- Fodder for Stories & Novels, an Example
- Literary Litter
- Diary of a Human Outlander, 9-16-08
- Dedicated to Each and Every Word
- Okay. Back in the Saddle. I’m Writing, Again.
- Moving is Tough on Writing Novels
- Move complete & back online…when the DSL doesn’t falter
- Offline for a week.
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