I kinda took the weekend off. See, my TV broke, and I was suddenly consumed — rather selfishly, I know — with a deep and horrible depression. It caused me to start reading Lord of the Rings again, after I scoured the house for a TV-like substitute.

I am back on track, now, with only minor, somewhat inconvenient breaks to give my F5 key such a workout as it’s never had before, in an attempt to either make my new TV move across the country faster, or perhaps crash FedEx.com.

Things are moving along quite nicely now, though. Minutes are no longer taking half hours, and we’ve even made it all the way down to five, which is a great improvement over the six we were stuck at just a few days ago. The problem, it seems, was that I [being an idiot] forgot the mandatory offering of blood before installing XP. Now that I’ve managed to cut my finger on the inside of the tower, things should work.

…and it’s time to switch to the other DSUB, because we’ve just rebooted. Oh, joy!