Sunday 8 February 2004

  • First off, thank you all for welcoming me back.  I've missed y'all as well.   


    With a whole quarter of a year gone, I'm not quite sure where to start, what to skip, et cetera.  So I think I'll just mention the past as it comes up and otherwise start afresh here. 


    As mentioned previously, my 30GB harddrive died back in November.  My mother lent me her 1.5GB harddrive, but that wasn't big enough to handle Windows 98SE, the minimum OS my network cards need.  So, I had a typing machine with which I could save to floppy and print elsewhere if needed.  A week ago yesterday Steve brought me his spare 17" monitor because it was wasting space in his house and he knew that my monitor was old enough that it needed the lowest resolution setting available in Windows.  That got us talking about my computer, and Harley was kind enough to give me his spare 20GB harddrive to get me started.  In popped my XP Home Edition, and I was stopped again!  My new motherboard shares 32MB of my SDRAM, which my previous motherboard did not.  So BroadJump wouldn't OK my computer to install my Cox modem.  Luckily, Wayne was able to dust off some an old 64MB of SDRAM he had laying around and here I am.  So make sure and thank Harley, Steve, and Wayne the next time you run into them.  Without them, I'd likely still be without access. 


    Last Sunday, I had one of my best showings in the Arizona Proving Ground.  I won both of my games before the final round, and ended up in second place overall.  Unfortunately, I didn't get my starting Feng Shui site until my sixth or seventh turn and I was unable to catch up from there.  *sigh*  Travis won again, all because of a bad shuffle and cut.  Next Sunday is a Whirlpool of Blood rather than a Final Brawl, so that will be a more even playing field.  That's usually a two-edged sword for someone like me.  Wish me luck.


    Well, I have lots of E-mail to catch up on here.  I might post again later today depending on the time.  It's good to be back!


    "All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth;  tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death." --G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy