So last night was super cute! After work and a delicious meal at Sakura (Japanese place here in town that's just as good as Kabuki, but without the show and therefore cheaper) I headed down to Tech. Traffic in the opposite direction was terrible, even several hours after the end of the game. It was backed up so bad on the interstate that traffic was even stopped as far back as before the exit to Christiansburg on the 460 bypass. Insane. But anyways, me and Jacob just kinda chilled out - we played Sims 2 for awhile. Our family is so cute! "Laura" got a job as an army recruit. It's pretty funny. We still have random techno raves in our living room. "Jacob" eats a lot of cereal. :-D

We also started talking about what we wanted our families to get us for Christmas, so we busted out the crayons and did our lists the old-fashioned way, mispellings and all. It was very cute. I finally thought of a few things that I wanted. I need to get Photoshop already; Paint Shop Pro has been fine, but I need to go that extra step. I think *gasp* I'm gonna ask for Flash, too. As much as I'm anti-Flash in webdesign, I've seen a lot of good sites done lately where it's been used just slightly - so it's not too big and complicated to mess with people on slower connections, but just gives the site the extra spice. For instance, look at the way the sound is done on Julien-K's and In Winter's site. And I really like what Simon did for the menu on Violet Prison. So, yeah...I think if I really want to do any kind of serious webdesign work in the future, it's time to upgrade.

Speaking of upgrades, I'm gonna be asking for some stuff for my old computer too to help with the expansion of RAM. I'm going to use it as a fileshare tool - maybe do something with the "getfile" feature on AIM - to let people download more (free and legal, mind you) mp3's. We'll see...