Go to Hell!

Tonight, after a week's hiatus, we had a session of the dragonlance game. After resolving the elven situation, we executed a lightning assassination mission. Against a servant of a lord of hell.

Louis once again didn't show up -- I think he's quitting the game without telling us. So we're taking back his 4 million steel piece sword. }:)

( game summary )

After the game, I got home to find a message from the GHC lab saying that the more detailed test had come in, and I *don't* have strep throat. Well, the penicillin seems to be working on whatever I do have, so I'll keep using it unless they tell me different.

It also keeps my confidence at the lab at its current 'pegged at 5%' state. They've never had a positive result come back for anything. NOT EVEN ONCE!

Draw the Line of Hackers, Worms, and Viruses!

(or at least, that's what the marketing campaign says)

Night before last, I installed XP SP2 on my laptop. It took 8 hours. 8 hours!

Unfortunately, I didn't start it right after getting home -- I waited until 8 or 9 or whatever when I logged on to read web comics. So I was up until 3am waiting for it -- well, and doing other stuff, of course, but I was only *awake* because I was hoping to finish with it.

The cruel part was when, at 2:30am, it finished downloading, and started 'verifying'. Really, really slowly. Eventually, I had to leave it on and just go to sleep and finish up in the morning.

I haven't noticed anything much different with it, other than that they made some of the security features more visible. It didn't kill any of my net apps, or crash a lot, or anything like that.

I *was* getting a 'low on disk space' warning after installing it, but I think that was a coincidence -- apparently, I'd somehow accumulated 3 gigs of crap in my temp directory. WTF?