Vacation, finally.

Finally got my trip booked back to Minnesota. I’ll be flying in on Sept 16th and back out on the 23rd. I plan to spend some days on de range, and some in the twin cities. w00t and such. Sadly, Erin won’t be able to make it (she has to do something called work), but it’ll give us some time to ourselves, which I hear is healthy for a relationship. “Bah,” I say, I wish she could go with.

In the more present future, Erin and I (but mostly her) have been working on refinishing the floor in the room, and hope to have it stained and finished this week. If it’s done we (if not, just I) will be going up to Mint Lake in Yacolt, WA for the Northwest Championship Waterski Tournament. Great fun, and a most excellent BBQ (last time I even got to do some chicken grillin’)

Re: Vista

Someone IM’d this to me. I think it’s f’ing hilarious.

“We’re talking about an operating system update that is now six years late. Six years! If I had a girlfriend who was that late, I’d be playing video games with my kid right now. (But not, you know, under Vista.)”

* If you’re not nerdy, Windows “Vista” is Microsoft’s most recent vaporware operating system. Used to be named “Longhorn” and was supposed to be released in 2003. In actuallity, it’s been in development for over 6 years, but is, ahem, only 3 years late. And none of the breakthrough features are included anymore.