Well IBM technical service was its usual speed self; I got my laptop back in two days, and now everything seems to be working. Let's catch up:

Taxes. I still need to do them. Party last night at Hani's place ("The Arsenal"), mostly 5E people, not really my crowd. Spent most of the time talking to Geo about being on Junk Yard Wars, Blendo, his small hot pipe organ, the railgun, and measuring the resistance of the Federal Reserve downtown (both electrical resistance and armed resistance to people with big spools of wires running around the perimeter of the building).

I've spent a lot of time in the last few days working on designing a PIC circuit with Luka. Ever since Luka sold out and started working in the real world, he has ooodles of mooooolah and can afford to do things like buy 25 PICs at a time to get the bulk discount. $134 for 25 PIC 16F874's, no problem. So I put down for five of them and we're going to build prototyping boards. Then I'm going to build that PEL that Heckler and I have been talking about forever. Finally. Worked out the schematic for it and everything.

Jeff Mission's new mixed CD rocks. Whoops, can't buy it in stores; he's local.