Wowee. A whole month has passed since my last blog and what do I have to show for it? Not much. My life has pretty much consisted of going to work and buying stuff on the weekends. This weekend I headed up to the Twin Cities intending to buy an iBook from the Apple store in the Mall of America, but when I got there the salespeople kept ignoring me. I mulled around the store for a good 20 minutes and not a single salesperson asked if I needed help. People to the left and right of me were getting asked multiple times, but I was always skipped over. Don't know why. I think it had something to do with racism. Heh. Seriously, it's that lone Asian male social barrier thing I'm always talking about. But after I had a good look around, I decided I didn't want to buy one anyway. I was thinking about getting the bottom of the line 12" iBook advertised for $999, but as it turns out, that one only comes with a CD-ROM drive, not a CD-RW drive. The one with the CD-RW drive would have cost $1299 in which case I might as well bump up to the 12" Powerbook with the G4 processor and DVD/CD-RW drive standard for $1599. For that price, I could also get the little Sony which caught my eye at Best Buy, or an even better equiped, but less stylish, PC notebook. After feeling kind of down about heading all the way up to Minneapolis for nothing, I bought some folding wooden chairs for my dining table at Target. Then I bought groceries at the Rochester Target on the way home and cooked up 20 chicken wings, half of which I have eaten. Once I got home, I decided to restore my computer to see if I could get my internet connection hooked back up and it did the trick. I still don't know what went wrong, must have been one of those stupid freeware programs I couldn't resist downloading and installing on my computer. You know what I mean, like the mouse odometer, the rolling eyes, the cutesy screen saver, etc. So now that my high speed internet connection is back up I'm feeling better about my desktop even though it is now 3 years old. After restoring it it feels like new. The only thing that would make it perfect is to upgrade to Windows XP. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll also want to buy a drafting desk for my den so I can finally get some work done at home.