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Man, I love boysetsfire and I’ve gotten Manny hooked on ‘em, too. That’s pretty fun. I like turning people onto new music. The album I’m currently listening to, After the Eulogy is an amazing album; probably their best. Certainly the best of theirs that I have. I need to get the other EPs, though. A band well worth buying, if you find their stuff. Or, better yet, go see ‘em.

Speaking of music, I’ve been turned on to Bittorrent and I’ve been constantly online since I started using it on Friday or Saturday. It’s so awesome. And I’ve found some great torrents over at punktorrents. I just wish I could find some good classical torrents for my wife. She likes punk and hardcore and everything, but she really wants some more classical. Too bad most of the people who listen to classical aren’t the type of the people who get on the ‘net and share torrents. I’m sure we’ll find her some music somewhere.

So last week was deadline. That was a fun 25.5 – 26 hours. But it’s over now and we got a nice bonus for it. (thanks, forrest!) On our ‘weekend’ after deadline, we got a lot done (sort of). I had time to get completely enmeshed in Bittorrents and Elaine had time to get started on her garden. She’s going to have some herbs, tomatoes and peppers. We also rigged up an awesome run for our Italian Greyhound, Poly. It’s actually just a clothes line, but it stretches from our back porch to the utilitiy pole at the far corner of our back yard (about 80 – 90 feet) with a spring clip (like what rock climbers use) attached to a wheel that’s on the rope. Poly loves it. She can explore most of the yard and actually get up a good run. She was outside yesterday in the heat until she was she was burning up…looked like she was about to pass out.

My parents came up on Saturday and brought us new-to-us appliances (a washer and a dryer) since our old ones went kaput. They do so much for us. Anyway, after they brought ‘em up, they helped us take the old ones to Salvation Army where my mom saw an upright piano for $400. She got it into her head that we needed a piano and she decided to call ‘em on Monday and see if they’d sell it for $300. They agreed and now we own a piano. Neither of us can play (we both took lessons as children, though) but I guess we’re going to learn soon. Don’t have it in the house yet; we’re going to move it from the store to the house in a couple of weeks. Again, with my parents help!

On the subject of two weeks, it’s almost my birthday. In about 2 weeks, I’ll be turning 23. Wow! What an amazing age! So, it’s not anything special, but I hope the birthday is fun. I think we’re planning on doing stuff w/ my parents the day before, then crashing at Elaine’s mom’s house that night, watching movies/playing games, then get up to a nice breakfast and…who knows? Do something else, I guess. I’m hoping to get an Xbox and some nifty games. Also, a few books, movies and CDs wouldn’t be bad. If you want, you can check out my wishlist. It’s not complete, as I’m still adding stuff to it.

I think I’ve run out of things to blather about…