View From the Bushes

The musical was much better than I expected. For one thing, it was pretty funny (though interestingly in this politically correct day and age, mostly by making fun of the Chinese.) Also, it had more tap-dancing than the movie. Yes I admit it, tap-dancing does make a stage play more enjoyable for me. Also the dinner was excellent; we went to Macaroni Grill, and they had a "Tuscan Ribeye" on the menu. Normally I don't order steak from a pasta place, but this one came with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus, which by themselves are pretty tasty, so I went ahead, and I was pleasently suprised. It was a bone-in ribeye and quite tasty and the potatoes and the asparagus were also really, really good.

Jeff asked for the specs on my new computer, so here you go:

• XION Ultimate Engineering XON-002 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 450W Power Supply


• ABIT AA8 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 925X ATX Intel Motherboard


• SAPPHIRE Radeon X800PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO PCI-Express x16 Video Card


• Intel Pentium 4 530 Prescott 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor


• A-DATA 512MB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) System Memory
-- (Two of them for 1GB of total memory)

• Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD 250GB 7200 RPM 8M Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive


• NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 4X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE DVD Burner

Possibly more information that you needed, but that's everything, plus a link to the place where I bought it from. Of course, you do have to put it together yourself (or get a friend to do it, which is what I did). I was going to talk about the arrest of the woman in the Wendy's finger case, but I'll leave that until Monday after the police have had a chance to hold their press conference.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross