So, it has come to pass that we have a pair of these, one of these, one of these and a pair of these, all hooked together with one of these. Unfortunately they were all out of the latter set, and had to ship it in from another store. it's got a bit of a trip so they won't be here until next week.

Still, what we have now is 100-fold better than the puny TV speakers we used to have; which in turn was 10-fold better than the bitty 2" mono speaker in our old TV. We're not trying to become audiophiles, but we got a good deal on the setup and are happy with how it all sounds (even without the surrounds)

Now, as it turns out a non-insignificant amount of our TV watching comes ahem pre-digitized, so I picked up this, this and a MiniDVI->S-Video adapter so we can enjoy all of our entertainment on the big screen with surround sound, rather than watching shows with my gonads on a slow roast.

Anyways, enough bragging about new toys, on to bragging about work.

Work is, strangely enough, going well. Granted, 3 out of 5 days this week I'm on 6:30 am conference calls with a particularly cranky customer, but the good news is we've solved a few of the high-profile issues they've been complaining about. One of which the primary credit for finding and diagnosing goes directly to me.

Course, this inevitably means that something is going to go horribly wrong, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

(rest the work stuff holed due to... well, it being hole worthy)