Ack! Wheeze! I am suffering from a terrible condition! I only have 256MB of RAM. The other 1G is in the mail, being RMA'ed. It is scheduled to arrive next Tuesday. To help alleviate the pain, I have turned off XP's Fisher Price interface, cursor shadows, fading menus, ect. Everything but animated minimize/maximize.

I have some very nice relatives who seem to spend a great deal of time at yard sales. They buy up all the roller blades they can find and ship them to our family. My younger siblings had been playing with them for a while, but I hadn't paid much attention because none of them were big enough for me.

Then, a couple days ago, a we got another box from them, and it had several large pairs of roller blades. I promptly found a pair and tried them out. Now, about 5 years ago, before we moved, I used to take my roller blades to school and practice in the parking lot. I got pretty good, but I quickly discovered that five years is plenty of time to forget.

I wobbled around for a while, gradually speeding up. I was not encouraged to find that this set of used blades didn't have any brakes. I have only crashed once so far; I looked back and the twisting caused me to turn into a wet gutter.

So now I am sore and slightly injured, but I can successfully follow the curves of the sidewalk and am greatly enjoying the nice weather.

There isn't much other news to tell, as my productivity is axed until that RAM arrives. I have more photos, but I don't want to bother with them right now. Maybe I will post them tomorrow.