30 years ago today my mom was flat on her back pushing me into this world.  I don't think I'm ready for Carosel yet, and I hope that the Sandmen don't catch me.  But that's a different story.

I made out pretty decent on b-day loot so far.  Got money for a 2nd computer chair from my parents, $20 gift certificates to the local movie theater from one of my sisters, and Supreme Commander & the Escaflowne boxed set from Farrah.  I also got a really nifty gift from PayPal.  My money back.

For a while I've been building a new PC.  Mostly cutting edge components.  Dual Core 64 bit CPU, nVidia 8800GTX graphics card, etc.  Only problem is that the first CPU I bought, I got off of eBay.  BIG mistake.  It didn't work.  That was almost 2 months ago.  I argued with the seller trying to get my money back, and he refused.  So I escalated it to PayPal.  They took their sweet damn time, but came through.  They ruled in my favor.  I'm to ship the worthless hunk of metal back to the guy, and as soon as he recieves it I get my $465 back.  That's a nice hunk of change, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it.

Anyways I'm waiting for the UPS guy today with some better memory for my new computer that will hopefully fix all the crashes and memory related error messages I keep getting.  After that it's off to see a matinee of TMNT before the kids get out of school for the day, and a friend is taking us out to dinner.  30 isn't all that bad so far.

Apart from the increasing amount of white hairs I'm getting in my beard.