Monday, March 06, 2006 It's been a while.

Elections happened yesterday, I have no idea how they went as I was inside all day. On the plus though I think I had my most productive day in country; I did more laundry than you can possibly imagine, I figured out a JS thing on the Parakou website], and I wrote my backup scripts that will hopefully keep me from crying when this computer dies. This of course would be following my least productive day in country where I sat on my butt and played video games. (I did beat Actraiser, make good progress in FFVI and decide that I was insane to have ever enjoyed playing Super Empire Strikes Back)

Speaking of computer death though, I sadly fell last week from my bike carrying my laptop which evidently knocked something loose so the screen doesn't work but sporadically. I'll eventually pop it open (when I can find a screwdriver that will let me into this bloody thing!) but for the time being I dipped into my vacation fund and sprung for an external monitor. It's actually probably for the better, as now my laptop is confined to the house... so it won't likely be dropped again and thus might have the chance of lasting a bit longer than it might otherwise. We'll see. In any case, I am enjoying having a much larger screen that is much brighter. Watching media now is even better.

As much as I did enjoy having a laptop, having a stationary computer at the house certainly provides at the very least a stable work situation and puts all accountability for work accomplished on me. It's not as convenient, as I can't take my entire work environment with me wherever I go... but it's sure a heck of a lot safer. When the laptop does finally kick it, I may follow in the footsteps of Ben and buy the pieces for a normal old computer. Who knows though.

Standfast is still standing fast, so I've unfortunately not heard from pretty much anyone. But, as they say... no news is good news.