Since my workout partner did not want to meet this morning until 7:30 to lift weights, I had an extra 30 minutes in my morning routine to squeeze in some time with Star Trek Voyager Elite Force. Since I spent my Christmas vacation back home in Georgia playing through Soldier of Fortune II on my Asus Z96J gaming laptop, I decided to do a run-thru of this title, which was also developed by Raven Software.

Since I had to go into the office today, I spent some of my work laptop's CPU cycles synchronizing my iTunes database while I checked email on my desktop. I use the laptop as my primary iTunes PC, but I keep a backup of the entire iTunes library on a Maxtor One Touch III mini 100Gb HD that I take with me on travel, so today I backed up my last three months of downloads and the rest of the library to the HD.

 Now I am using that hard drive to back up the master library to my home network, so that my PC's in the GearWERKZ will have access to it. One small not of ire is that my main PC did the random reboot thing that it used to do all of the time back when I first built it. It used to do this sometimes when accessing a USB hard drive for an extended period of time, just like I'm doing now while backing up 28GB of encoded audio and podcasts. Hopefully it won't happen again; I only got through the D's the first time through, and now it's only in the H's, which means it is probably not even halfway through yet.

I watched the first 30 minutes of Return of the King out on the big screen. Apparently, sometime last year, I recorded an episode of the Sci-Fi Channel's "California's Most Haunted". I came across it while screening my TV recordings on DVD. I watched it, and am now disturbed for the evening, and will probably have problems sleeping. Great.

I also played an hour or so of Far Cry. Have I mentioned how much I despise not having a save anywhere feature? One of my resolutions for 2007 is to not buy any game for the PC which does not have save anywhere...unless it is extremely good, or a potential runner for Game of the Year...or both...oh, fooey.