Nothing too interesting for the last couple days, thus the lack of updates. I made the most of my evenings by sitting around and doing absolutely nothing. Work was sorta routine, although the email server was being rather slow sorta randomly. Although that was fixed this morning. Of course after that was fixed the faculty file server started being slow and ended up needing hard resets twice. That turned out to be related to the drive filling up and it not denying the writes but trying to cache them. Maybe this will be enough to get faculty quotas in place, especially since their space usage has practically quadrupled in the last year. After work I went for a little tech shopping and bought a DVD-A and a couple SACDs as well as Finding Nemo. On my way home from that I stopped and got some hot cocoa and cayenne pepper (more on that later). Then the siblings came over and we watched The Recruit. Then we watched a few parts of Finding Nemo, which is an awesome movie on the technical side, and has some good humor too. Then they left and I started listening to SACDs and discovered that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon SACD is one of the best discs I've heard. The surround is mixed better than most movies, and the style of music can actually take advantage of it for more than ambiance without sounding stupid. Now back to the hot cocoa thing. Tenley posted something to ITS Board about hot cocoa being good for you because of anti-oxidants and stuff. This got Joe H and I talking about the history of hot cocoa and peppers today. So after a little searching on google we found some nice recipies that in the simplest form (as in not much different than standard hot cocoa) basically is a quarter teaspoon of cayenne pepper per two cups of cocoa. I mix up a batch and in the words of Crush, "DUDE!" It's gotta be the best tasting thing of cocoa I've ever had. A bit of a bite and a sorta undescribable aftertaste. Very slightly bitter yet sweet at the same time. So yea, you should try it sometime. I also read a rather funny obviously fictional diary on k5 tonight about outsourcing. Not gonna post a link for various reasons, but I think my favorite quote is "I'm sorry, I'm going to have to put you on hold. While I'm shooting the intruder, please re-install the printer driver." Anyways, should probably not screw up my sleeping schedule too much here.