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After all the complaining I’ve been doing here, I think it’s time I found something good to say…

First off, today is Granddad’s 90th birthday! We spent the weekend in Pennsylvania celebrating with him – and enjoyed a stellar party put on by my Aunt. If I can stay awake long enough tonight (which is questionable) I might even be able to post some photos from the trip (and the party) in the Gallery. If not today, I’ll try to get ‘em up at least by tomorrow or Thursday. Stay tuned!

For another thing, my e-mail program is well on its way to being fixed. A problem with some obscure shared library (that was used by some totally unrelated program) nixed Evolution, my main home e-mail reader. So for the last two weeks, your hapless e-mails have been lost in a sea of spam as I searched for them using webmail. Fortunately, by the time I wake up tomorrow, my PC’s update should be done and I’ll have my beloved Evo (and its superexcellent spam filter) back again!

As you might recall, Phoenix the Intrigue was having transmission troubles. She still acts up on occasion, but despite a recent tripling of my commute distance, she’s still hangin’ in there.

My friend Andy is moving to New Hampshire on Friday to start a new job and fulfill his dream of becoming an official Free-stater. By next week, he’ll be enjoying most of the liberties that we New Yorkers barely knew we missed out on. He’s pretty nervous, though, so if you happen to also be a friend of his, be sure to shoot him an e-mail of support!

That’s all for now – it’s nice posting good stuff for a change! Or at least posting stuff that doesn’t make Kelly’s eyes glaze over as she mutters “here he goes with that geek ranting again” after the first paragraph…