The last few days have been exhausting, as I and my staff (one guy) packed everything we needed. It's done now– everything is boxed and palletized, and is either at the pier already or just waiting to get forklifted onto the helicopters for the flyon tomorrow morning.

That meant I had to finish getting packed too. So all my gear is now in no less than three seabags, and it's sitting in the hanger waiting to get lugged onto the birds and, later, lugged to berthing. That's going to suck.

With all the work and long hours and stress, I've not been sleeping as much as is healthy. What makes it amusing is that this month's safety magazine theme is "Fatigue". Gee, ya think? I'm going to try to go cold turkey on caffeine tomorrow night, and it's going to be ugly.

With everything packed up, I finally had time today to bust out my new laptop. I feel terrible- how could I own a computer and not even power it up for three full days? And now that I've got it running, it's going to be another night of little sleep, because it needs some serious lovin'. It's got Microsoft Vista Home Basic, and so far I'm not impressed. Sure, it's got weak laptop hardware, but the thing runs like a dog. Plus, it's a consumer laptop, so it's loaded with many megabytes of worthless crap. So right now I'm burning up my internet connection downloading all the software I actually want for it, and I'm going to have to spend an annoying chunk of time deleting all the evil crap that Hewlett-Packard saw fit to preinstall on there. Plus, it didn't come with an install disk, it came with a recovery partition, which means part of the precious hard drive space is wasted to save them the cost of a mass-produced DVD. So I'm using the utility to make my own DVD and I'm going to reclaim that partition.

To make myself feel better, I'm having a celebratory last meal before the boat. Ben and Jerry's. Mmmm... B&J makes everything better.

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