Well, the lab was fun. No, really. I worked with Baylee and Claire (yay!) so that part was quite nice. I'm pretty sure some of my data is screwed up, though, but I'll just have to fix it as I go along. No big deal. And now I know how to put resistors in series and in parallel and how to interrupt and reconnect the circuit! Joy. I am certainly not going to go into electronics for a career.

Dad says we'll set up my computer tomorrow. Hooray! He had hoped I'd get more of my homework done today, but we'll probably set up my computer regardless of how much I've gotten done.

That's right, my computer's a Dell. I know it scares some people ("Dude, you're getting a Dell!") but I'm willing to live with that. So, as far as I can remember, here are my lovely specs:

• Pentium� 4 Processor at 2.53GHz w/533MHz front side bus/ 512K L2 Cache (not quite sure about this one)
• 1GB DDR SDRAM at 333MHz
• 120GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard Drive
• 3.5 in Floppy Drive
• 16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
• 48x/24x/48x Max CD-RW Drive
• Dell� Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard
• Logitech� Optical USB Mouse
• 19 in (18.0 in viewable) M992 Monitor
• 128mb DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX Graphics Card with TV-Out and DVI
• SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Digital Sound Card
• Harman Kardon HK-395 Speakers with Subwoofer
• Dell Jukebox Premium powered by MUSICMATCH
• MicrosofT� Windows� XP Home Edition w/ Microsoft� Plus
• Microsoft� Works Suite 2003 with Money 2003
• Norton Antivirus� 2003 12-month subscription upgrade
• Dell TrueMobile 1184 Wireless Broadband Router (not quite sure about this one)

I'm not sure if that's the processor I got, or if I got a faster one. And although I know it has a wireless ethernet card thingy (oh, yeah, I know so much about computers) I'm not sure if it's a router. And don't forget that the computer also came with some other crap that we couldn't get rid of. Like a 6-month subscription to Earthlink and a modem. What the hell do I need those for?