In the office today after our company summer picnic. All the muscles in my legs are now feeling like somebody put them on a winch and torqued them about 30 feet or so. It took me 5 minutes to climb my stairs. However, we had a good time yesterday; I wish Jen could have come but I knew that there was no way she could take off after only two weeks of work. We played some touch football, some frisbee, and then a game of softball- I think it was the football that did me in.

Gary Condit did his interview last night with Connie Chung. What an evasive little jerk. They should run this guy right out of Washington.

Jen and I, talking last night, agree that the word ‘slacks’ is unnecessary and ugly.

I ordered 128MB of RAM for the NT machine- the total, with second day air shipping, is $30. How unbelievable is that? I remember when 8 MB of RAM was $400. What an incredible drop in price. Now I need to seriously look for a monitor. The RAM should be here next friday or so- it’s on backorder by 2 days. Meanwhile, Access Micro has barebones systems- case, power supply, motherboard, processor and 128MB of RAM, for somewhere around $450. And that’s Pentium 4 chips at 1.4Gig speeds. Add a hard drive- $120 for a 30 gig IDE and another $100 for a CD/RW, plus a good video card- like a Geforce2 for $150 or so, and I’ve got a pretty decent basic system. I’m going to see what my Dad can put together for me with a good chipset and processor and see if he’d like to build me a system in the next few months.