Hello. I meant to do this update a few days ago, but better late than never. On Thursday I had new windows installed throughout my house (8 windows total). Although the Home Depot windows are very nice, and the installers were bordering on excellent, it was more than 2 months after I signed the contract to have them order the windows. They were terrible at contacting me, etc. Unfortunatly this seems all too common in business today - good products with pathetic customer service.

With the installers here 8 hours (1 hour per window, just like they promised - I was impressed with that), I took the day off work. Since I had totally messed up my desktop computer a few days earlier (as in, does not boot messed up), I took the opportunity to reinstall everything from scratch. I had to fight with the XP Installation CD, trying to convince it that I did in fact have a hard drive, and that it should in fact read the SATA drivers I was feeding it, but that was my only hangup. So my computer is nice and happy now, with all the idiotic XP stuff turned off, and in theory it should run faster with XP than 2k due to my hyperthreaded processors - so far no notable difference.

Back to the house, yesterday I emptied out my bedroom and painted the ceiling, and painted the ceiling in the living room next to the kitchen. Unfortunatly on the 2nd room I didn't get enough paint everywhere, and you can see the lighter spots where I overlapped. I'm debating on how important it is, and if I should mess with getting the paint sprayer back out again to run over it again. It doesn't take long to paint, but all the setup (putting plastic down and covering all the doorways) takes quite a while. Even as is, it's a *ton* better than before.