The last couple days went well. I sorted out a lot of stuff with Exchange, and even managed to get scripted Exchange accounts done. Now once we decide which departments get Exchange rather than open mail by default, it will happen automatically when their account is created. Tuesday night I went and picked up my powerbook. It seems to be better so far - we'll see how well it works over the weekend. Wednesday was interesting. I may end up writing more on that later once I know details. It did get me to add in a bit more redundancy. If the main system which handles windows account has problems they should be able to switch over to a secondary with no differences other than some delays in password change propagation. I'm just glad that as of whenever I left work tonight I'm done until Tuesday, so I don't have to deal with whatever could happen. Tonight is also the big switch for the web people. Something about Bethel changing it's name and all the web pages needing to be updated. I think my part of the change ended up being 4 lines or something for now, and that was to make it automated for the conversion time. I feel sorry for Raadt though, whose plight has caused him to start calling himself the "css monkey". When the design people change things ever 10 minutes for layout and it has to work in a ton of browsers... Currently I'm in the process of ripping some CDs. I realized a few somehow never made it to my Karma. That included Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (SACD), Radial Angel - One More Last Time, and Macy Gray - On How Life Is. Yea, my musical choices don't fit into anything resembling any single type of music... Tomorrow I get in the car followed by my parents' van, to come back into civilization sometime on Monday. My phone should work as a relatively decent (faster than modem) Internet connection up there, but the Mac doesn't recognize my cable and I never ended up poking long enough to get it working on the linux laptop (which is staying at home anyways). So you'll have to handle a few days without me. I'm well prepared with the Karma and the awesome E2cs (makes traveling bearable and sound great - I think even Ross may have reconsidered his thoughts on my purchase after he heard them), offline copies of some newsgroups and half a dozen magazines on the computer, another handful of magazines in the old style (also known as printed), the Rebel, and whatever DVDs end up in the van (probably too many). That may sound like overkill, but when was the last time you we're planning on 18+ hours in a moving vehicle? Now I just need to find out when the actual departure time is in the morning so I can get up and pack beforehand.