Wednesday, January 04, 2006 Guess what I'm doing right now? Yeah, give up? Well for one I'm not typing very well. Want to know why? It's because I'm at the cyber typing on my laptop! That's right, it's back from the dead!!! Yay Brendan! Yay Apple!

Actually I'm pleased as punch. Apple really did a one-two punch on my last AppleCare warranty repair on this computer ever. They replaced the:
- motherboard
- hard drive
- screen
- hand rests
- touchpad
- usb/firewire/headphone ports
- optical drive (I think... not sure about this one, if nothing else they cleaned it really well!)

I mean, damn. That's the whole freakin' computer! Suffice to say I'm pretty stoked to have it back. The one crappy thing though is that I didn't get any software updates... so my brightness keys still don't work. But it's only 100 MB (oh man, it's going to be such a pain in the ass to download that).

In the meantime project-wise things are going quite a bit more quickly now. Thanks to my laptop I can now be productive (and surprisingly am being) more than 3-4 hours a day. Sweet.

I also have to admit to having started watching the OC. I didn't mean to, but I'm starving for media here! Tim sent me a disc, but it's not here yet... and I was just so weak. It was there, beckoning me with its xvidelicious-ness. I hate to admit this, but it's not actually all that bad of a show. I'm not addicted yet, but if the freaks volunteers that have lived here for a year already are any indication I'll soon be as hopeless as the rest of them.

Almost as good as my laptop was the 500g of parmesean cheese delivered to me by fellow ICT Volunteer Ben. Even after being sick he ventured out in to Cotonou to make sure my pasta would not go un-cheesed. What a guy.

Actually everything is going really well right now, the only bad thing I can even think of that is happening is that I have remained un-successful in getting a set of guitar strings. The word on the street though is that they do infact exist in Parakou. I just have to find out where...