What can i really say here, it is my birthday and I sit and update my blog. I think that says it all about me. On the up side I have purchased a present for myself today thank’s to Phil’s good luck I have obtained a new sound card as well as a THX certified set of 7.1 speakers for not a whole lot. I think we need to work with Phil on his bargaining skillz, I shot a fair price, he went lower. But thanks anyways, it was all profit to him. I have also obtained a 4 port wired linksys router from Fulljeff for my parents place, All for the low obscure price of $21.37, which i guess is a good compromise between $20-25. Tonight may prove to be interesting witht he possibility of a movie and dinner, with different people of course.

Last week, well, Friday was a small party with Abby at Erin’s place then to Amy and Ashley’s place for the birthday party for Ashley. I felt so very out of place at a college party, I prefer the bar or just a small gathering of friends. I guess I am getting old, I would rather just chill out, but it was interesting trying to remember how to play Euchre, but I didn’t do so horribly. I do believe we lost but hey its been a few years. I was also not able to join Abby in “the century club” thats all due to the fact that they started without me though. Saturday was a relatively tame day, just football and Xena on the tube, some computer gaming. Darrin and I went on a man-date for chicken wings at Hooters, so that was awesome, I love those wings. Sunday was a heartbreaking day of watching the Bears game, then being cut off on Fox sports to be able to listen to the game on AM640, only to hear the Bears fall again to their opponent by 2 points. Dinner with Abby at Olive Garden was good again, but there were no movies playing right after dinner, so I released her to go finish her homework. And I came home chilled to more football and Xena.

All in all it has been a relatively tame week at work, sometimes I get really busy but most of the time it has been a bit slow. I finally got all of the machines runnign the LCD monitors in the helpdesk area loaded. And as of today 1 is fully functional with an Alert Manager running on it. Bill should be getting back to me on the other ones, with a Heat Monitor and IP monitor. Lots of fun with blocking and unblocking people. I guess the official word is that the van can be salvaged at like $340 or something, now really who though that I could kill a van like that. There have been some good discussions with Ben about networking basics and some of the ways that we have things set up here at GV. This week the idea of going to Waltham, Mass. was killed, not enough people willing to go. I would have really loved to see GV in the first round of the playoffs, I hope they can perform again this year. Though I find out today that my pop would want to go. Its alright it opens up the time to party with friends up here. I did catch up on sleep this week, right after work on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday I got up to watch 24 at 9, then played around, Wednesday I stayed up and played with my NAS(Network Attached Storage) and got that up and running, which brings me back to today. I cannot get the FTP server I have to work over the GV firewall. seems that passive FTP doesn’t work quite right, oh well. That just opens up more investigative things to do around campus.