From the “A good string of luck” Dept.

It was a great B-day.

On Friday, I called Infonec Computers to get the status of my RMA. It finally came. So I rushed my ass there and picked up my new mobo with only 5-minutes to spare—the store was just about to close.

I ran back home, skipped dinner, took a bunch of telephone wire and made a homemade grounding strip and assembled my computer. Turned it on and it has all been good since.

Dual-CPU computer is interesting. Performance wise it isn’t any faster than a single cpu in most cases, but there are times when I have 20 applications open and the system is still responsive—very nice.

I’m still setting stuff up. Can’t wait to install Gentoo.

It was great to be able to get my computer up and running before Jen dropped by. She also had a surprise for me:

My very own 10GB iPod

It’s nice to be part of an elite technocrati—everyone at work was drooling.