so i spent most of the day playing a computer game. this is really outside of my usual behaviour but i've been obsessed with it lately. i HAD to finish conquering north america, i had to! so i did it. in 18 hours of game play. the last 5 battles or so took less than 30 min. apiece. i just smashed though their cities with bomb ships and then invaded with marines. awesome! overall a good time. i had flanking manuevers, ambushes, naval battles and razed city after city. it was a good time. and now i'm done with that for a week or two, maybe more. i'm thinking it's time to do some reading week after next. this weekend i work and next week i have a class from 9-6 monday through friday. but then i'm done with a 3 credit class. so life is good. other than that i'm just trying to relax a bit and sharpen my mind back up. so far i've done nothing productive since school ended on tue. and that's how i like it. tomorrow or sat. i'm going down to rip out the stereo and take all the valuables out of my car. then she's basically junk. the estimate to get her drivable again is sitting at $5k, or about twice what she's worth. so my little gal has sung her last and it's time to put her to rest. a moment, please... ok. cool. life is proceeding almost as planned, though. now i'm moving the 18th of june and i'm flying back with sara and her family. i'll ship out and pack up my life and call it even. 37 days. i couldn't be happier to say it.