Good Times

Tonight was fun.  We went to a minor league hockey game with a few friends from our young married’s group at church.  The seats were close to the glass so we had a pretty good view of the action. Unfortunately, the Texas Tornadoes didn’t win, but the action was good and the fight was entertaining.  Other highlights are the humorous commentary by Gary (who had strangers 3 rows in front of us laughing), YMCA, the 70s dance line (even though they never caught us on the big screen), Gary and Jami “monkey walking” down the stairs, and the pictures.  All in all, it was a good evening.

Oh, and for those who may be wondering how the new Dell XPS 1330 is doing….well, the battery completely died on me last night.  Let’s see, it lasted about 10 days before failing.  I hope that’s not a sign of things to come with the rest of the hardware.  Dell is sending a new battery, so hopefully the new one will last longer.  Besides that, I’m really liking the new computer.  It’s very fast, and I like the compact size.  I was able to replace most of my applications with alternatives that run on Vista.  There are still a few that I’m missing, but hopefully, they’ll have a Vista version soon.  I’m even trying a few OpenSource alternatives.  I’ll let you know how that works when I have time to play with the applications more.