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Well, this morning while I was packing up my laptop it kind of slipped, and... well...

Yeah, so don't expect Banshee.OpenVP to be ready for a while.

My DSL and phone service is due to be activated today. When I got up I had dialtone, which is a good sign. But a few days ago I had an interesting encounter that was just too humorous not to share.

On Thursday the DSL modem showed up but since ...

A few fun things have been happening, but I've been too busy to write about them. Now that I have time, I've just finished moving into my new house for the summer and won't have Internet access until this Monday (or later if past experience on this ...

• Taking liberal arts classes because in someone's opinion that's somehow supposed to make me more of a person.
• Hearing from every one of my professors that their class is not only directly relevant to my life, but extremely important and that I'll never forget it.
• Caring about ...

This morning I got up and was going to take a hot shower. I started to take off my shirt and in so doing I must've bent my neck funny because I felt a sudden shooting pain near my left shoulder. After I recoiled, the initial sharp pain died ...

During the prayer at the end of chapel today the pastor's voice broke from emotion and she stopped abruptly mid-word. My immediate reaction was "argh, packet loss again!?"

Yeah. It's that bad.

All in all this was a pretty good week. My new job has been a lot of fun and it feels good to finally have a job where my skills are being used. The team has been very welcoming and are fun to work with.

My computer is back alive ...

My computer should be working by the end of the week. Turns out the motherboard is dead, so I'm getting a new system: AMD 64 X2 2.8GHz. $347.24 later and let's hope nothing else fried.

My right wrist is also not working so well. I'm ...

Today was a really good day, at least for summer break. I got to see my girlfriend again (second time in the last week... woot), got a long-standing WikiBench todo done, and found some pretty nasty bugs in Mono's implementation of the 2.0 framework TryParse methods for integer ...

I got a car! They just had some work done on it so it should be working for a while yet. Not bad for $500.