It's been a variably-paced week, so if I seem to be a little scattered, it's because... well... I am a little scattered!!! :lol: I'll try to keep it logical, but...

Work:

[spoiler] Work was a little schizo this week. We started on Monday with nothing to do but play around with the test-plan documentation. It's all on a wiki page the QA team maintains, and encourages us to comment and update as necessary. We ended the week in a mad dash to finish major integration testing on 2 new databases they needed to handle the flood of new customers they signed in the past month. It was a little extreme, to say the least. It didn't help that the new girl kept finding non-existent bugs, and then swearing up and down that the whole program needed to be changed to suit her perception of the way it works... I give her another week :lol: . [/spoiler]

School:

School has been tough to keep up with: with so many hours at work, I have trouble falling into a nice homework routine. I've been keeping up for the most part, but the one class I haven't worried about is the one that snuck up on me and put me behind a week :evil: Fortunately, I have most of the backlog caught up... but it put me behind on the other two catching up... which means no games for the 'Hammer on Sunday :( .

Games:

Haven't played much of anything. I'm sort of in limbo here: I'm waiting on Universe at War at the end of next month, but with all the time demands I have, I'm not entirely sure I'll have time to give it. I'm still going crazy with the occasional foray into Dawn of War (never gets old for me), but since I have no time for a full campaign... :(

GS:

Check out the UaW forum, and find the (inevitable) "SC vs." topic. Someone decided to get cute and actually launch a personal attack on me... over a video game!!! That hasn't been released yet!!! It's a first for me. I laughed my... um... head off at it when I saw it. Laugh along with me.

Gadgets:

I needed something to listen to music with at work, and I wasn't interested in dragging a CD player with me everywhere, so I picked up one of these. It was inexpensive, highly consumer-rated on CNet and Amazon, and had features that appealed to me. Best of all, no iTunes needed. I can rip CDs, crush the songs down, and transfer them with any media player I choose.

iTunes just annoys me: my mother-in-law found an iPod Shuffle in the lost-and-found where she works (yes, let that sink in... and realize it had been there for at least 3 months before she was allowed to take it... sad :( ) and gave it to our son. Naturally, I had to download iTunes to make it work, and it just hates me. *mini-rant over*

Interruption: I had to pick this back up and edit it because my friend (who's close to my age, but not as versed with computers) needed help working with PowerPoint. He's seen what I have been doing for college, and it seemingly inspired him to take on-line college courses... I'm a trend-setter!!! :lol:

Well, I don't have much more to say... if you missed the last blog post (about music) and have anything to add, I'll keep my eye on it. Enjoy the week!