1. I bought a laptop last week. It's shiny and pretty and I love it so much!


What I didn't love was the gigantic, useless thing called Vista installed on
it. In a fit of daring, I spent a large chunk of time partitioning drives
and installed Linux. It's pretty fabulous and I love it. If I don't have any
issues after a few weeks, I'm tempted to just overwrite all of Vista. The
forums for my particular build (Ubuntu, for the curious) are very friendly
and helpful.

I might buy a book on it, too.

2. ( girly part tmi to follow! )

3. Planning moves apace on my bandombigbang story. I've worked
out a background story and timeline for everything and now just need to do
that forward. rue_quercus has been invaluable in this process.

That is all for now, I believe.