I managed to pull a B- in calc3! What's better, that was my lowest grade this semester! I got an A- in CS450 (Database), a B in CS483 (Algorithms) and a B in CS421 (Software Engineering)! Talk about very cool. :) This, of course, also means I will be getting a ton of money back from work in my next paycheck or so. I've been thinking about what to spend it on and have been very tempted by the SunFire V100. Talk about a nice cheap ($995!) Sparc box. They're cheap enough that even CDW is selling them, which is probably where I'd end up buying it from. Other possibilities are a bunch of rackmount cases for the various machines in my house. Even for that, pretty cheap, rackmount case we're talking $700 for 5 of them, equipped how I would want them. Now, I suppose if I wanted to spend all of the money I'm getting back for school on computer junk I could do both... I guess that's something I'll have to think about, that would certainly be *very* nice, but wouldn't help me pay off my CC or anything else useful. Of course, I could just pay off more of my CC from my normal funds this month too.

Star Wars, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. I thought it was pretty decent. It certainly could have been better and it reminded me a little of certain recent Robert Jordan books where amazingly little really moved forward after a great many pages. Even so though, I enjoyed it and will probably see it again before it's out of theatres, maybe even in a better sitting position than the house-left side of the very first row. I still need to see Spiderman since I've heard good things about it. SW:EP2 definitely set things up in an interesting way for the Episode 3. I hope they do a really good job with it and tie everything together well. Unfortunately my concern is that SW:EP3 is going to feel like a bunch of very loose ends being tied together with duct tape and bubblegum. I guess we'll have to see. Until then we have The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to look forward to showing up this winter which should be very cool.