it's been a great few days for me. first of all, being done with school, I decided this past weekend to "clean off" my laptop and wipe all traces of anything related to school from its memory. after cleaning it up, i installed ubuntu on it. i've never heard of this particular linux distribution before but thought to myself, "well, I have so much time on my hands, maybe this time I can be successful with linux." Now, I have told myself something similar to this on many occasions and have never quite made through the initial setup, always getting frustrated and reverting back to evil windows (i just threw that in for the zero linux people who will be reading this). Anyway, after a couple rebuilds, I think I finally have some stuff working on this machine. I got my resolution up to 1920x1200 and wireless is even working. I have managed to get skype running on it so people who need to call me can still get through. ok, onto something a little bit more interesting. Allison and I just concluded a most wonderful game of starcraft. the game took a little 4 hours....but that isn't really what is important. What is worth mentioning is the fact that we took on and defeated 6 protoss comp players!! It was insane. The begining was pretty slow going with Allison joining me in my base while we just tried to survive. after a long while of getting some forces together, we took over Allison's original base and began to mass a large amount of troops....or I should say Allison did. I was in charge of defending both our bases with two groups of carriers and a buttload of arbiters (high templars really like to kill them). After a long time of Allison using her much proved uber-wraith technique and my experimentation using canons to form an impenetrable wall around the entire north section of big game hunters and then slowing branching out from the middle (i refer to this as the umbilical cord strategy), we cut off the life of the enemy and pounded them into submission. Our combined kills were over 10k and combined score was over 5 million. Tops all time for games I have played. Check out the screenshot. good times....