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Got up late today, slept in and recovered from the week. We went out to dinner last night, Bar Americain, one of Bobby Flay's places. I had a shrimp cocktail and a hanger steak, excellent.

I setup my Google phone earlier this week. I was able to get a number that matches the last 7 digits of my cell phone number, which is cool, so the only difference is that starts with a different area code (NM or something), 505. Works great, if you call it, it rings all my phones, plus it accepts unlimited online voice mail and send you an email with a text transcript of the messages. Cool

Waiting for a SATA DVD drive so I can complete the build of my new case...should be here tomorrow.

At home, eating delish dinner that N prepared. May try to catch up on an episode of CSI or something. The building A/C is broken, so kinda warm in, but no big deal. I can handle heat. Easy. Hans is out to dinner at Babbo tonight, nice.

My adsense has been picking up, doing about 3x what I was doing a few months ago. Similar eCPM, but a ton more traffic, I guess one of the soaps is playing again somewhere, and thus the boost in traffic.

Just walk out and deposited some checks, it's very convenient having your bank right in the building.

Can't wait for my new Shuttle box and video card to arrive, cool.

OK, gotta eat now.

BTW, after looking at it in some more detail this evening I can confirm my initial diagnosis: the Shuttle K45 box appears to have died. Maybe the heat. I feel the BIOS is probably the culprit. The system doesn't even POST. I will have to go ahead and get another box. The K45 has always caused me a ton of problems, it's just too small to host everything i wanted inside. Going for an S38 most likely, something reasonable, and a GTX 260 or something.