How To Disappear Completely

My parents are Miracle Max

So I should explain a little bit more how my beautiful machine ended up in my hands so quickly...

My computer had been giving me problems with the monitor for some months now and so I was just going to wait to get a new one over Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Monday night, the monitor went off completely. The only way to keep the screen on was to squeeze the side as hard as I could. This meant holding it sideways and pecking with one hand. Naturally, I couldn't get any major typing completed that way, although I could manage to email all my files to myself. So I went down to the Apple store in Hamilton to discover whether I could simply buy one for myself off the shelf. But the Apple store in Hamilton doesn't keep laptops in stock. And it would take a week to get to me. I could have spent a week working on campus computers and just saved everything by emailing it to myself (yeah for gmail!) but it would have been highly inconvenient, especially since I have soooo many books to schlep around. But my dad came up with a plan. The Apple store in Colorado Springs stocks laptops, so I was able to buy it from them, and my mom picked it up, and FedExed it to me overnight and now I have my computer that makes me so happy.

And I love my parents, not so much because they are Miracle Max, but because they are the sort of people who would be Miracle Max, except working with nobler hearts for much nobler causes.

I guess I am talking about character here. One action merely the snapshot of a whole life of service.