Happy birthday to Stacey!

I was all ready to slip back into my lackadaisical blog update schedule when I noticed that Stacey had used it as motivation to post a new blog entry. See, she doesn't want me to "win" the blogging battle, so she has to one-up me. (Nevermind the fact that she hadn't made a post all year prior to that—and she actually used to mock my blogging inadequacy!)

Anyway, today is her 27th birthday and I'm heading down to her place after work for dinner. There won't be much time to hang out after that, since I have to get back home (damn work!), but I'll see her on Saturday so it's okay. Before dinner, we'll be stopping over at her parents' house so that they can take advantage of my computer expertise. They're purchasing a new laptop and it's my job to make sure they get the best bang for the buck, without wasting any money on items/features that would be superflous for them. The current family PC is a desktop, circa 1998 (I'd estimate), with Windows 98 (ugh!). Let's just say it's old, slow, and now infested by malware. I told Stacey that this is akin to someone who drives a crappy car, gets into an accident, and finds out that it'd cost more money to fix the car than it's worth. Sometimes you just gotta buy a new computer—and when you do, I'm the man you need to call. :-)

Well, I'd better get back to work. (Shh! Don't tell anyone I'm blogging whilst on the clock!)

-Mark