wow. 18 days, not a peep. That totally sucks.

Let’s see, what has happened in the last 18 days…

14 days ago, I turned 27.

Oh shit, I was going to go chronological, but damn - here’s something that I failed to even mention. December 24, about 9:30 am. I do down to the parking lot downtown where I left my car the night before since it was xmas weekend and I had been having too much fun. Anyway, some bastard, size 10 Vans wearing motherfucker had walked over the hood of my car, denting and scratching it enough to make it expensive to fix, but hardly enough to consider actually paying the deductible. Fucking car insurance…almost always too expensive to use….anyway, I digress…yeah, that sucked. Thanks asshole.

Back up to date…I have been working an insane amount, trying to get my new hire fully trained and get all the stuff that only exists in my head out to him so he can take over my sys admin position.

We took our daughter to the doctor for her 15-18 month checkup last week, and she was a showstopper. She busted out a ton of her words (of which she has so, so many more every day), and really impressed our pediatrician. Proud daddy am I. She’s such a wonderful, bright little blessing and it’s really fun to see her show off for the doc. She did have to get 4 shots that day though too, and that part was much less fun. I saw pure terror in her eyes…it was really not a fun thing to see. But she’s really tough - for as awful as the actual shots were, she was pretty much recovered by the time we were in the car.

I have put some serious seat time into the PSP…it seems psychotic to work at a computer for 10-12 hours a day and then pick up a PSP and sink a couple more hours into that, but damn, there’s no one awake at my house, so what the fuck, right?

I handed down the old, lovable ThinkPad T30 and upgraded to a T42. The T42 is nice and sleek, and light, and it is nice to have a brand new battery, but damn did I love that T30. It was already nice and used when I first got it. But now I am clicking away on my first new ThinkPad. I have so far been impressed by the Lenovo ThinkPads. This is the third one I’ve added to my shop’s roster and all have been super reliable and nice as the IBMs always were.

We finally cleaned up our garage! Yeah, our garage hadn’t really been put together since we moved in. About half the garage was a complete wreck. But last weekend, during Laney’s nap, we completely cleared out all the bullshit and got everything organized. We also put together my futon and set it up in the garage, so it’s almost like a bonus room in there now. I have room to set up my drums too, so as it gets a little warmer those will certainly get some use.

Anyhow, there’s an update for you all. I’m sure you feel much more informed now. I’ll try to get back in the swing of writing more often.