two words... kitchen remodelling. with the temp 18 below outside. this better work out ...

yard work is taking much of my time, end of season. the dog and cat are having alpha position arguments ten times a day now. got the band traps epoxied, and should have a ham antenna hanging (finally) by the end of the week. now, to get a new power transformer in the s/1 CX7a and see if I got everything fixed in there that needs it. no end of projects when you can do them ;)

the eMac has adopted a cousin, an iPod mini. alas, I got a bad cold, and have not yet been able to use it at exercise, since I'm not up to the oxygen demand yet. nice-sounding toy, though. it was nice to see Cashman and West music on iTunes, bought it all to save a lot of digitization of my old elpees.

Today I switched. emac with superdrive replaced windows 98se, which has been roached since I tried to raid-1 the drives, and due to the design of the registry, has never been the same again.

I had everything peeled off before the raid event onto a USB-2 external drive, and have already recovered all my past email from netscape.

For some silly reason, I couldn't get CD rip working right on the SUSE machine. So, it's OS-X for me. After meeting up with the Mac 128 back in 1984, I finally bought a current Mac.

Nice to have a machine that isn't hobbled by too few interrupts and just freakin' works.