I can’t help it, but I find this news story extremely funny. Oh, schadenfreude, my old friend.

Kenzie and I had a day out, mostly engaging in capitalistic practices. We came very closet o buying a whole new computer, but decided that we couldn’t afford it, mainly because we can’t afford it. However, I think we’re resolved to getting a new one at some point in the relatively near future. We did end up buying more RAM for the old one, and a new video card that we may end up taking back. This computer has been twitchy ever since we put in the new video card (which everyone is startled that I only paid $12 for. eBay is a wonderful thing), but and extra 512 MB of RAM seems to have helped. There used to be a time when my computer hardware knowledge was top of the pops. I was nearly laughed out of the store when I asked for a 256 MB DIMM chip, stating that the lowest that they had was 512, and those weren’t even on *sale,* the DIMM2s were on sale. When looking for a video card they barely had any AGP cards, which I thought was odd, and when I asked it was “Oh, well, everything now is on PCI-express, that’s the new best standard.” I hadn’t ever even heard of such a thing.

We don’t even really *need* a superbadass computer, it’s just that this one has been clunking along for quite some time now, and I’ve put ridiculous amounts of money into fixing problems and upgrading. Now that I think of it, the motherboard probably isn’t more than 3 years old, but I guess that’s a lifetime, y’know? I mean, it doesn’t even have PCI-Express, and just takes DIMMs. What the hell, man?

I’m also contemplating getting parts and making one myself. I may not be very handy, but can do computer hardware. Software, ick. Hardware? I’m listening.

Lost went from the ridiculous to the sublime this week. It was so damn boring at the start, with those two Johnny-come-latelys taking center stage, but soon after the “inserting them into the past stuff” portion was over (so boring we were wondering what was re-shot and what was old) it was fairly good, and I found myself laughing my ass off once I realized what their final fate was. Clever of them to build up these two as characters the audience wouldn’t like just so they could have fun in this episode.

Ugly Betty was great as well. I love the Mark-Amanda team-ups, because they’re the worst villains since Dirk Dastardly and Muttly. It was nice to see a softer side of him, and go from him being a jerk to being a more sympathetic jerk. There are definitely part of the show that seem like they are just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, but they do it so well I don’t really mind. Weird swerves new directions keep a show fresh. Y’know, as long as they don’t bring in the Applewhites.

I’m pissed that Chris got voted off Idol. We didn’t watch it, but Kenzie’s mom told us when she gave us our entries in the Luther family Idol pool (everyone puts in $20 and gets a randomly selected person, if your person wins it all, you get the pot, which right now is $140). Kenzie got Sanjia, which is hilariously awful, and I got Melinda Doolittle, which a lot of folks think is good, but I don’t really think she’ll win. Then again, we don’t really give a crap this season, so it’s kind of moot.

We watched the Departed on PPV last night and holy shit, was that a great movie. Even Kenzie really enjoyed it, and she hates crime movies. Nods all around, especially to Mark Wahlberg and DiCaprio. I’m going to take back some of the things I’ve said about you, Leo.

Long work week this week, and I’m looking forward to having nothing to do tomorrow but watch Allie, as she’s on spring break this week. It’ll be nice to have her around all day, and not have to break up my day by going and getting her from school. Her mom and stepdad spend the weekend in Illinois, checking out the town they’re moving to, which is 20 minutes outside of St. Louis and only 6 hours away. Not bad at all, really. I did 5 hours in the car all the time as a kid going back and forth to the Old Home, and this will just be get on 70, drive 6 hours, take an exit.

Tomorrow is work day. A little writing, a little online shopping, a little Photoshopping for work (Dark Star t-shirts!). I’ll leave you with this, a little thing I did for our Harry Potter pre-sale ad.