Ha! I knew all the lack of sleep would finally catch up with me. Tumbled out of bed at 11:30. by 12:00 I'd managed to get upright again. Did a quick tidyup and took some rubbish out.

Bored...

Went into the office wit the intention of doing some work, but got sidlined into fixed some bits and pieces on ZenII though _A_ had to fix one of the problems I was looking at. Typical blindingly obvious error...

Went for lunch with Trond and Jeff. We initially were looking for a sushi restraunt but the one we went to initially was closed so we ended up at a mexican joint instead. Probably just as well. I think it's being arranged to have a camera around for my first experiance with sushi.

Returned to the office and fiddled with the alpha. I think I'll be putting the voodoo3 3000 PCI card back in based on the card benchmarks posted recently. I'm just a bit dissapointed that I don't have an AGP socket on my alpha or I'd have tried the voodoo3 2000 AGP I happen to have brought over with me. It'll have to wait until I buy another computer.

Made a lot of calculations on the back of an envelope,... after taking into account rent, car repayments, taxes, various other expenses, I reckon I have anything from 1000-1300 USD a month to 'play' with. I think, after I get settled in I'll buy a 19" trinitron monitor similar to what I had back in the UK. I tend to like trinitron monitors as the mask on them provides a very stable image. The ViewSonic G773 I'm using at work flickers too much for my taste. I also need to get a USB webcam and a new digital camera.

Noticed that solar flare activity is becoming much more common. Maybe I can start using it as an excuse as to why some things don't work. If you have time to download lots of pretty pictures of the sun have a look at the current solar data