Audiobook finished

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

Meh.

I figured I'd give it a try, but as TWO friends at work who have both read the series said, "Life is too short to read mediocre books."

I mean, it was OK, but it certainly wasn't great.

Passport application tendered

Took my passport app to the post office today. They're at 4 to 6 weeks currently.

I hope to take it some cool places in the next 10 years.

CRT finally gone

The CRT monitor at work finally packed in this morning. It failed for the first time nearly a year ago, and turning it upside down and beating on it brought it back to life. Then about a month ago it flipped to just a furry gray picture, and I discovered that giving it a good whack brought it back. I've been beating on it with increasing frequency over the last month, at first once a week, yesterday about 20 times. This morning when I whacked it, the screen did some horrible things and it started to smoke.

So unfortunately at this point I'm down to either living with the 1280x1024 monitors they give everyone at work, or springing for my own. I don't really have a business case for a bigger monitor, but as I can get a nice 1920x1080 22" monitor for $150, I may just spring for it. I do spend 8 to 12 hours a day looking at the thing.