back from vacay, but...

yeah yeah i know i should've posted monday or tuesday, but even though we had a wonderfully relaxing vacation in virginia beach, it's been like a whirlwind here since we got back. on monday as we got home, i got a new router which has both my mac and pc on the internet (now if they could only "see" one another... the mac saw the pc's workgroup so some kind of connection was established at one point or another...), i got one of those cool 256 MB USB flash sticks, and i got a 40 hour tivo box! i set up the router monday afternoon and then we went out to dinner to outback and watched some tv (kenjen is back on jeopardy yay!) so no tivo. tuesday evening i had a board meeting at church, but i was at least able to activate tivo online that nite so that on wednesday evening i was able to set it all up and let it do its initial set up overnite. i'll get it all figured out as i play with it more, but it seems that i have to leave the tivo and cable box on at all times (not sure... help?).

besides the fun best buy purchases, the whirlwind was also empowered by the starting of a new semester. you can see the new course titles in the bar on the left and yes i'm back to three classes. it'll be tough, but i'm really interested in the subjects which also include my first counseling course! (fyi: i'm now planning on also finishing an MA in counseling.) my schoolwork was one of the main reasons i stumped for tivo because now i can theoretically work from 9 to midnite straight without having to really slowdown during a show at 10pm that i really want to watch (speaking of, real world (15): philly actually looks good in that the cast seems to have some semblance of intelligence).

last but not least, tonite is poker nite at my place and i'm excited. at one point it looked like we were gonna have like 13 people, but now it looks like we'll have between 7-10 people.

i'll post some vacation pics soon i promise.