I hafta admit, I wish I had installed the comments system here a year ago. It’s been really interesting to write about different subjects and see what you’ve responded to over the last month, so I’m doing a little unscientific list:

• Online Personality Tests – 2 entries out of 3 got comments. (My Theory: everybody got tired of them, or you already got them in your inbox the previous morning)
• Working on the house – 3/4 (You feel sorry for us, and are secretly happy your houses aren’t broke-down like this one is)
• Wedding Information – 2/3 (You’re thinking, enough already…am I invited or not, you cheap prick?)
• Weekend Updates – 2/3 (Because it’s just so much more interesting than the rest of this crap.)
• Computers – 1/4 (This is you: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
• Trucks – 2/2 (Everybody loves trucks.)
• Booze – 1/1 (Almost as much as they like booze.)
• NASCAR – 0/1 (But nobody likes NASCAR.)
• Democrats 2/2 (OK, damn, this got some feathers rustled. Good to see you’re still awake out there.)
• Frigging AOL – 1/1 (And who doesn’t have a frigging AOL story?)
• TPS Reports – 1/1 (Or forgotten to put a cover on theirs?)
• Maryland Ham – 1/1 (Wow. I mean, this one got some people talking. Or maybe it was the beets.)
• Work changes – 0/3 (You don’t care where we’re employed, as long as we pick up the next round of drinks. Ungrateful bastards.)

So there you have it; that’s what people are talking about.

Pictures. Here’s some shots of the office in progress.

Daily Boardscan. Jen and I have a blue paperweight sitting in the foyer of the house taking up space: a rev C (slot-loading) iMac I bought a few months back in working condition. During the install of OS 10.3, I accidentally kicked the power cord out of the wall and (predictably) it went dark. Upon reboot, the machine made the needed clicks, whirs, and beeps, and showed nothing on the screen. Apparently I had blown the video board in my clumsiness, rendering the machine useless (this unfortunately is not the DVD model with the VGA out port on the back) for anything but anchoring a boat. What I’d like to do is swap it for the rev B grape iMac server, as it’s faster and quieter, but money and time have put those plans on hold. Anyway, after searching in vain for information online about this malady, I found this page with other folks having the same problems.

Music for working by: Chemical Brothers, One Too Many Mornings. Beautiful, driving, relaxed beats.