As always, good news; bad news. The good news is that IBM service is really really efficient and so is Airborn Express. Laptop arrived at 9:01am this morning. That's about as fast a turnaround as is humanly possible.

They replaced my main system board, CPU fan, PCMCIA slots, system BIOS, and most importantly, the little rubber feet on the bottom. The best part is that when I got it back, the harddrive I didn't send in worked and everything is running like a charm.

The bad news: they seem to have downgraded my RAM from 192M to 64M. So this means I'll probably be looking at another day of phone tag and genearl annoyance. And with so little RAM, the machine is too slow to run CodeWarrior effectively, so I can't really work with it.

In other bad news, I spent 13 hours yesterday on my midterm and almost finished one problem. And I'm pretty sure I did it not entirely correct. The second problem I have no idea on. It is similar to a homework problem that I haven't done due to my recent surgical fiesta, so I'm going in today to get help on that homework which I hope will lend insight into the test question. But the thing is due at 5pm, so we'll see...

Back to the good news: Tomorrow morning I leave for LANL!