It's gonna be a long, long time, before I can cross that finish line.

I need to get together a birthday request list......March 4th, people!

I can't decide.....I think that I am going to ask for just gift cards for Best Buy for my birthday.

On top of greatly simplifying the shopping for the relatives, the items that I can't choose between would be purchased there.

What I really can't decide on, is what to use it for. Originally, I was thinking that I would just buy a half-way decent laptop. Not that we need such a thing, but it would be nice for watching movies away from home, or file-sharing with Kyle (even though we only hang out once every few months.....).

But over the last week or so I have thought that I could just purchase a portable DVD player ($150-$800), and get a new desktop PC with a lot more juice than the same amount would get for a laptop. Really, the only things that I need to be happy on a new system is a DVD burner, and the capacity to just plug in my current hard drive, in addition to the one it would come with, and be up and running, in seconds. Not sure.

Oh, and if there are any wealthy benefactors who might be cruising my site in search of a nice person to make a contribution to.....I can't think of anyone more deserving then myself!