Today is Friday the 13th. But you don't believe that it's bad luck. You're rational. You remember what Edmund Burke said. Superstition the religion of feeble minds.

In fact I intend to have an especially lucky day today. Although it hasn't been great so far. I stayed up too late last night, and had a little trouble pulling myself out of bed this morning. And again I'm all by myself at work. Chris and Joe are out again. I was here alone all day yesterday as well.

The day before yesterday I ran out to Fry's and picked up a new CD-RW drive and a new 100 Gb hard drive for Snake, my primary computer at home. The installation went as smoothly as one could hope for. I'm quite happy to be rid of my old SCSI 4x4x16 CD writer. The new one hums along at 24x10x48, I believe. On my test run it wrote a 5 hours worth of mp3s to disc in under four minutes. Smokin'.

Oh, and tomorrow is my birthday. How cool is that?