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So my Vizio 32" $300 LCD is DOA, will have to ship it back, bah.

On the other hand, the iTunes Express worked awesome. Had some trouble initially because it showed up on the network with a weird IP (254.128.0.0) but when I updated the admin software to the very latest version then it saw it fine and it all worked perfectly. Great setup software had it up and running in 2 minutes. Now it shows up as extra speakers for my iTunes, so I can play my whole music collection in the living room using the iPhone remote software.

Love Wikipedia's description of Jean-Luc Picard's character , he is my favorite by far:

"Picard is depicted as a deeply moral, highly logical and cerebral man who, through Solomon-like wisdom, resolves seemingly intractable issues between multiple parties."

Nice weather! Cloudy but at least warm, 72 F right now. Thu night we had a work event/party at Greenhouse, cool club downtown. We had a whole VIP section blocked off for ourselves, it was cool.

Met Ingrid and Edward, as well as a few other friends of theirs for dinner last night at Dos Caminos, on Park Avenue. We had a great time, got home around 11 pm, and went to bed early.

All my furniture from the 35 th st. apartment has been delivered, so we have boxes again everywhere. Hans came in for a bit last evening and helped me move around the bedroom furniture and setup my bed (it's heavy). So, at least that is set. Now we just have to figure out what to do with 3 sets of everything (mine, Nicole's and what we had bought to stage my apartment). We will probably have to throw away some stuff...

Anyway, we are headed to Jersey today, borrowing Nicole's dad's car to go to a hair appointment while I will wait at MicroCenter, awesome . Then hitting Longhorn!

And the rain continues, I think all week at least! Ordered a little AirTunes wireless access point so I can stream music from my PC to the living room speakers and control it all via the iPhone remote application, cool.

Just had a camomille, trying to catch up on The Hills and AI, fast forwarding through most of it. Big game tomorrow, Barca plays Chelsea in London, let's see what happens.

Christina, Hans' sister, is in town, but I am not sure where we can meet up. She is leaving Fri afternoon, and tomorrow night we are going likely going to be busy at work. We'll see.

Wow, I just realized my blog is now up to 400 pages, which at 5 posts each, make 2,000 entries! That's a lot. Started it over 4 years ago, time sure flies. A lot has happened