Lucky, eh? Well, Brad, I might have scored a cheap weekend next month in the Bahamas today. It would end up costing me about about 1/2 of my friggin' huge tax return I just calculated, leaving the rest to help me attack the still large but ever shrinking amount of debt accumulated from purchasing chiaotzu.

And, yeah, I originally spec'd out a raptor but then I read some interesting statistics about the bottlenecks of first generation fast-spindle SATA drives...it turns out pumping things up to 10,000, while cool, doesn't alter the price/performance break of the 250 drive I scored. Of course, two days ago, hitachi came out with a 300db 10k spindle speed monster...but it'll probably run too pricey anyways. I'm happy with my decision.

I didn't finish my DC tax return (I got to the final step where, as usual, I owe the DC government money...not much, but enough to make me wish they allowed me to deduct capital gains losses...yeah, idle rich, right. Good point.)

A little gabriel, sponge, cake and poe mixing into a musical melange. I haven't ported over my large supply of tunes, but perhaps a little ftp love might help me out from persons in a commonwealth. I'd still want to convert my songs to ogg vorbis, but getting access to some other tunes might be a cool bonus.

Okay, time to get back to lovin' it. A pity I have to work tomorrow...but perhaps then I can cover the past four days of fun in the sun.