So basi­cally, I arrived home at around 3:30PM for win­ter break, and promptly took over a table for com­puter type stuff. Imag­ine my excite­ment when I heard the power shut off at 12:30AM (approx) that night. Now I could claim that as a rural res­i­dent in West­ern Wash­ing­ton I’m used to pro­longed peri­ods of power out­ages, but it seems that was before the inter­net was in com­mon usage. Need­less to say, it was a very unhappy 56 hours, but I sur­vived. Somehow.

But what didn’t sur­vive was my fish. :(
I guess the cold room and lack of oxy­gen finally did him in, despite my efforts to intro­duce oxy­genated water. I miss the lit­tle guy (although he was rather large for a goldfish).

Let’s see here, the best bur­ri­tos on the face of this earth are at a place called Casa D’s in Belle­vue (a few blocks from the Belle­vue Square mall). For $8.50 you get at least a 2 pound bur­rito of the best food you’ll ever expe­ri­ence. I’m not one for beans, but they’re so good you don’t even notice them. They’re amaz­ing, we go there when­ever we’re in the area. Ran­dom thought.

I’m kinda wast­ing time at the moment, in a naïve hope that our grades will sud­denly be posted a lit­tle past mid­night sim­ply because the online sched­ule says they’ll start post­ing them today.

Pho­to­shop CS3 beta has been released in the past… when­ever. I have it down­loaded but don’t want to install it while run­ning on a low CPU clock with the lap­top. Per­haps when I’m plugged in.

I sus­pect this is a really ran­dom post, prob­a­bly because it is.

Did I men­tion that the wind­storm that knocked out our power also washed up an amaz­ing amount of clams onto the shore of our beach? It was pretty amazing–we eas­ily picked up 5 full buck­ets of them. The rest of my fam­ily munched on them (I refrained, for I dis­like bivalves) and we’re releas­ing the rest at a lower water level when the tide is favorable.

I think I’ve given up check­ing the grades for now.