We went to see “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”. It was quintessential Kevin Smith. It was funny and bawdy and offensive and wonderful. It was rated 18 here, which means that it is not a porno (which is 18-R and can only be sold in a licensed sex shop), but you must be 18 or older to attend. (And I am sure that they are as fastidious at stopping kids under 18 from entering a movie as they are about keeping under 18's from buying alcohol.) Anyway – I loved the movie! It made me laugh my ass off. Especially hearing MC Chris in there. Woo!

It's been a couple of weeks now, using my Dell with Ubuntu. I am still mostly happy about it. The only complaint, and this holds true with all laptops, except ThinkPads... I can't deal with the damned touch pad thingy. I always use the TrackPoint, and never learned how to type avoiding the touch pad. I am typing along and suddenly, I am at the start of a line or in a different window... Really, that annoys me. But, hey, really, it isn't bad otherwise. I even moved all of my financial stuff over here. I was doing everything in Excel, but OpenOffice has very nicely converted everything and it works great. I had some trouble talking to Dad in Skype, but honestly, I was having the exact same problem when I was running Skype on my Vista 64 system. It may be Dad's Skype that is wonky. But once I got the sound setup correctly - I had to actually enable the mic port in the OS – it worked great! I could see Dad's video, and I could see my own video. I will play around and see if we can get this working better.

Anyway... I am going to run now. It's a dreary, Sunday morning, but we need to get some stuff done around here.