Electronics Update

That new Asus I last posted about has been working out great so far.  The night I set it up, I wound up playing Starcraft 2 for 5 hours straight and it barely blinked.  It also does a great job streaming Netflix movies and runs Stellarium beautifully.  I highly recommend you get one. 
On the cell phone front, it turns out that the Sienna phone tends to drop calls in the house after all.  That means we won't be dropping ATT in favor of them.  We may wind up doing Vonage instead. 
In other news, my work and my basement are going smoothly.  Well, mostly.  However, they are keeping me from getting to the numerous sci-fi related posts that I want to do.

New Computer

The HP my wife and I got last spring had been giving us fits (slow, won't take a blasted charge) for about the last six months.  Finally, we decided to get a new one a couple of days ago and it just arrived today.  I'm now sporting a new Asus notebook with an i7 processor.  I'm just finishing up the install on startcraft 2.  With a little luck, this beast will actually play the game half-way decently.