Still here — alive and kicking, no less. Just been busy doing life-y type things. The Renaissance Festival, Detroit, Dave and Busters. That sort of stuff.

Am currently engaged (Make it so!) in the process of transferring everything from my desktop PC to my lappytop in an effort to make the latter my primary computer. The reasoning behind this is that I spend precious few hours at my apartment, and when I am using the computer, it’s generally the laptop My desktop is buried in my bedroom on a neat little workstation, but it always feels claustrophobic when I’m in there. Consequently, I spend little time using the desktop. But it contains all of my music and a whole host of useful programs that I miss when absorbed on the desktop.

The only downside to using the laptop exclusively is that it only has a 80 gig hard drive, so I think an external hard drive is to be had in the near future. One that can hold a terabyte or so of data. For all the porn, television shows and copied movies that make up my collection of illegally gotten material. An extralegal capitalist, I am.

Next year I might look into getting some kind of docking station for the lappy. That way I have something into which I can plug the 24″ LCD monitor I intend to buy. And a regular keyboard. Laptop keyboards are okay, but if you’re writing anything of extended length, a regular full-size keyboard is a godsend. Then should I want to emulate an actual desktop computer, I can do so.

I’m feeling poor right now, however, so none of these purchases will be made in the next six months. I am going to be tightening the checkbook I never ever use a little until next summer, save up some money. I’d also like to get a new car next year some time as well.

That’s pretty much it for me right now. How are you?

JAB