I had a dream that someone was at my place, talking on the phone, and we had been listening to music. I was trying to turn it down so they could have a conversation, and the technology wasn't being cooperative... I was using aumix (a commandline mixer), and the volume just wouldn't go all the way down, and mute didn't work, so I was individually setting the bars as low as they could go, and occasionally I'd make typos and that channel would get loud again. The friend kept on motioning as if to leave the room because it wasn't quiet enough..

Dell has a neat thing by which I can watch the status of my order. Apparently, I ordered it early enough yesterday that they were able to build and test it, and it's currently waiting to be boxed. Cool!

The mouse on my workstations at home is messed up. It's predecessor, a nice Kensington Mouseworks suffered a fairly rapid death, and about a week ago I dug out this spare. It's not nearly as nice, and the mapping from my hand motions to cursor motion is sometimes bad .. it gets *stuck*. I hate that. It's a very bad thing when you need to notice your mouse too much. I really wish the desktop trackpoints I got some time ago had three buttons. Those things are awesome, but it's just a pain to chord. In the end, I might go back to using them though.

Yesterday, I got a CD rack that someone was tossing. The thing is about 5 feet tall, and all curvy. Getting the thing home on my bike was rather amusing -- I stuck my hand 'into' it, and used the strap of my bookbag around my arm to keep it stable. It looked really silly, and I got a lot of amused looks, but I did make it home, and I was able to move all the CDs I have that arn't boxed into it. That freed up cubespace enough for me to move the misc books I had lying around off of the pile on the floor. That's one of the neat things about CMU -- there's so much spare 'stuff' of every kind lying around, that if you take the time to roam the halls looking for stickies marked 'junk', you can get a lot of pretty decent free stuff.