Did anyone watch the Oscars?

I watched them, took about ten minutes thanks to TiVO. A bore as usual. Most of all the evening centered around Marie's B-Day and so we pulled out the red plate We baked a cake and Emily and I made 'tuxedo' brownies. You know the brownie batter on the bottom and cheesecake batter on top. Well I failed to read the instructions and poured it all in. So instead of being layered it was more brownie on the outside of the pan and cheesecake in the middle. (oh well, they tasted good.) Remember my (1st) post? Well Aunt Sandra pulled it off and I now have a 250G drive for $99. I don't know how Compusa can put things on sale for less than they paid for it. I'm guessing they hope you will buy more things while your in the store. Its the end of "Presidents Day" week long break for the grade schoolers. They went all over the place. To the mountains snowboarding and Friday to San Francisco by train and ferry. Aaris decided to record the trip by making a book for Show-and-Tell. Take a look at it.

My Stuff

I love my Apple Powerbook and there is a great program that lets you scan in your possessions which will help you keep track of them. The only problem is it isn't free. Well I found a PC version and went to town scanning in all my stuff. Here is what I have scanned in so far.
Now I can keep track of all my stuff. No more forgetting who I lent something out to. So feel free to borrow a audio book or two. Or a game 'cause I can put it in MediaMan. Now if there was only a program that keep kids from leaving my DVDs out of the case. (A larger picture of the one above is here )

Quest for 250G Drive.

Today was a pain but ended happly enough. I was looking to make a external drive for my laptop so i could backup my data and move my CD library to our PC. I saw a great deal on digg.com for a Maxtor 250GIG Drive. So after getting an enclosure I set out after school today to get the drive at CompUSA at the Arden area. They were out but the computer said Rosevile and Vacavile had some. I went to Rosevile and they had sold the last one that morning. For $70 off I would have driven to Vacavile, but after checking the computer all stores were out. Not always one to give up, I checked Seatle to see if Uncle Jim could get one. All the stores there where out too. Where there ever any drives? My last ditch effort i check San Diego. Both San Diego and La Mesa had the drive listed as In Stock yet it turned out only La Mesa has one. Aunt Sandra is going to see if she can pick one up for me after the Mormon Battalion Parade in Old Town San Diego. We will see how that goes. Well its getting late (or early) so i better get to bed.