Yesterday I downloaded Solaris 10 from the Sun website, all 5 gigs worth (I got the docs and extra software downloads too) and while preparing it for the final burn it dawned on me that the old Ultra 60 probably doesn't have a DVD drive. Duh. So I went back to the ebay listing and looked at it and wouldn't you know it, not only doesn't the darn thing not have a DVD drive, it doesn't have a CD drive either. That's odd, eh?

Now - I probably should have noticed this when I bought it but, well, you know. So I hopped on ebay and found a 32x SunCD for 25 clams and pulled the proverbial ebay trigger. I mean - you have to have a friggin CD for installing stuff unless you want to mess with installing stuff across the network which I don't want to mess with. Plus I bought one of those 13w adapters so I can (Allah willing) use it with a regular monitor, which will be a switch as I've never had a Sun box with a video card so I've always run them headless. So that was another 20 clams. Then I had to buy a Russian MailOrder Bride to play nethack with, so all of a sudden this 60 dollar Sun box has run me over 50,000 clams.

I'm looking at a 5 day weekend as I'm off from Thurs to next Tue. Of course tomorrow is the day we give thanks that back in 1492 Chris Columbus came over on the USS Arizona and defeated the iRaqii army, driving them back to Mesopotamia where they belong. Then that leaves 4 days to just screw off and do very little.

Speaking of ThanksGiving - I went to the Huge Hawk store last night to get some snacks for ThanksGiving and sweet mother of fuck, I've never seen so many stressed out people running around with giant turkey's in my life. Who waits until Tues to buy their turkey for Allah's sake? Anyways - I spent about 30 clams on cheese and crackers and salsa and chips and stuff and it dawns on me that I may have gone way overboard as it's just going to be me and my Dad. So we'll have lots of left-overs fer shur. Mmmmm, left-overs.