Yep, another one.

So here you are for yet another update.

We went to the 7th Fleet Olympics this weekend and had a blast. I was actually all ready to go off on Marla's neighbors and vent here, but I hardly see the point now. We had brought out my dad's new paintball gun so that he could let some friend's shoot it off and her neighbors got all in a huff because we were "hurting the trees".

All I'm going to say is that even if they could feel, they wouldn't have felt that, and the ammunition is completely water soluable and bio degradable. I have even less love for the environmentalist crew that sinks to that far left now.

But apparently there were emotional enhancers. Does it excuse their reactions (trust me, they did more than whine about the tree being "hurt"), probably not. Am I willing to overlook it? Yes. It turns out that their dog died last night (after all of this), but that they knew he was dying before that, and before they had been yelling (and cussing) at us. That's all I feel like saying about it for now.

On a much brighter note, I found my baby. I think I finally tracked down my laptop that I plan on buying. For almost $2700 I can get something that not only can it navigate a nuclear submarine, it could probably fire a missle at the same time. While I'm mostly joking, for that meager amount (I was looking at paying almost twice that) I will get everything I wanted PLUS a whole mess of things. At about $2,000 it comes with more than you could possibly need:

Main Features

• P4 560 3.6 GHz

• RAM 1 GB

• HD 100 GB

• DVD±RW

• Mdm

• LAN EN

• Fast EN

• Gigabit EN

• 802.11b

• 802.11g

• Win XP Pro

• 17" TFT WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050)

For those of you lost, you needn't worry. I know and could explain you if you call... I'm kidding, but I could explain it if you needed. Anyways, but for about $600 more, I get to add another Gig of RAM. So I would have 2 Gigs of RAM. I have never heard of a computer having that much. I know they're bound to exist, but I wanted 1Gig so that I could be a step above what is considered cutting edge. With 2 I would be a leap and a bound above them. And as Carl said: That should keep you on the cutting edge for about six months.

Heh, hopefully I won't have to upgrade until I graduate. But we shall see.

It's time for the song of the week. This one might be a bit ambiguous for it's message. It can go for and against what I'm posting it for, but that's alright. It isn't meant to mean what I want it to mean. It's meant to mean what you think it means. Lost yet? Good.

If it makes you happy, by Sheryl Crow.

I've been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos,
And drank til I was thirsty again
We went searching through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen

Well, o.k. I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

[Chorus]
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad

You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well who hasn't been there before?
I come round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you french toast again

Well, o.k. I still get stoned
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home

Chorus

We've been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos
And everywhere in between
Well, o.k. we get along
So what if right now everything's wrong?

Chorus