Thursday, January 05, 2006

A Quiz and More!

Your results:
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
95%
Green Lantern
75%
Superman
70%
Iron Man
65%
Robin
62%
Catwoman
45%
The Flash
45%
Supergirl
42%
Batman
40%
Wonder Woman
37%
Hulk
35%
You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test



Well. I suppose it's time.
It's funny how information spreads. It's like a virus.
If you don't already know - it seems everybody already does, but I'm sure there are a few still in the dark - Diane and I are engaged.
The first weekend in December I asked her to marry me, and she said, "yes!"
We didn't tell too many people at first, because we wanted to tell everyone personally, not in a group setting. Well, at this point, there's no point in drawing it out any longer - everyone knows!

Just so we're clear: Diane and I are engaged to be married!


So, that's good news.
Here's some bad news: My mother's in the hospital again. She'd been in for about a week around Christmas. She was discharged, was home for about a week, and is back again. No one seems to know exactly what the problem is this time, but hopefully they'll get it sorted out soon. I don't mean to sound flippant, it's a pretty serious situation. It's hard when the doctors are as clueless as they seem to be in this situation.

So, that's bad.
Here's more good news: After almost 5 years with a 600 Mhz processor, I've finally upgraded. I received a 2.40 Ghz Celeron and a mainboard for Christmas from Josh. Foolishly, I thought that perhaps I could pull my existing mainboard and processor out of my case, install the new ones and be done with it. After realizing that my old sticks of PC133 RAM weren't going to fit in the new DDR slots, I made a trip to Staples and picked up a 512MB stick for more than it was worth. I rushed home, inserted the new RAM and realized with great frustration that my power supply lacked the necessary connectors to power the new board. So I made a trip into Belfast Computers and picked up a new Power Supply. After putting all the pieces together, taking them all apart, and putting the together again, followed by another installation of Windows XP, I have a functioning machine again! And it's 2.40 Ghz! Holy Cow! And it only cost me about 130 bucks!

So, that's good!

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Narnia Rap