Damn, I'm falling behind.  It's been a bit chaotic around here, with the holidays and all, but things are finally starting to calm down. I'm still trying to get the business off the ground.  I have repaired a grand total of ONE computer, but I totally kicked its butt and cleaned off the half dozen virii it was infected with, all data saved.  Happy me. My computer wasn't so fortunate.  I bought a new motherboard (dead RAID controller), power supply (the old one was making funny noises), and case (because this one is just dead sexy).  Everything is up and running just fine, but I was unable to salvage the OS/data from the drives.  I currently have it set up as two separate drives, and (other than the annoyance of having two separate drives) is working just peachy.  I had a current backup in place on our server, so all of my pictures, music, documents, and my World of Warcraft configuration were safe and sound.  It took me the better part of two days to get everything set up the way I wanted it, and now it's running just how I like it.  So of course, I'm going to partition the main hard drive and install Windows 7 beta on the other partition.   Of course I can't just leave well enough alone, you should know me better than that by now. :D On the joys of home ownership:  plumbing sucks.  After two days of drains getting progressively more and more backed up (and stinky!), we finally called in a professional who fixed it in an hour.  Apparently the sewer drain pipe under the house had come apart and was draining sewage right there under the house.  ICK!!!  Brave man that he was, the plumber crawled under the house, reattached the pipe, and restored our drainage... all for the low, low price of $97.  You couldn't get me to climb under a house with a crawl space filled with sewage for that price.  Maybe not for any price!  Anyway, it's all fixed up, cleaned up, and smelling ... well, not like sewage anymore.  Whew. Other than that, things are going relatively well.  Brian is not liking his new job much, and my current full-time job is at a company that is on the verge of bankruptcy... but we're doing ok.  Bills are getting paid, the animals are all happy, we still have the internet.  I wish we had more hours in the day, but other than that... yeah, it's not bad. Here's hoping it stays that way.