I've been leery of saying my XPS is fixed, lest it go belly up yet again. It is currently running Sims2 on the high-high-high settings. I installed EQII on it last night and logged in briefly, but since the XPS is on my rolling file cart, it's not exactly ergonomic.

This morning I ran into JohnD, or rather he passed through the building lobby as I was admiring the "holiday gift tree" in the building lobby. It's rather amusing; I suspect poor Rob up in Seattle believes I spend my days chumming around with JohnD, Broos and their respective kin but in reality, I never see either of them unless we pass by chance or I poke my head into Broos' office to give him grief (which means that he will walk down the hall past my cube at some point and strangle me in passing). Indeed, while I knew Broos was going to San Francisco last week, I didn't know JohnD and Michelle would be there until we were at the airport on the way back to San Diego. However, JohnD observed that while I might not have seen them at the party, they saw me wandering around. I don't know if that's a good thing or not ;)

It's very nice and cool now. Who knew that SoCal gets a real autumn? At first when I saw leaves turning yellow, brown and red on the chestnut tree near my apartment, I thought it was dying from lack of water. Heh! So despite me wanting to lay out all the time and get a tan, it's now too cold! Gar! Well, I suppose if I lay out very still on a towel at the pool I'd be okay; it's probably much too cold at the beach. Perhaps this coming week, I shall head out and find out! Stay tuned!