At last! A personal touch to the new and improved blog experience. I’ve decided to go with the “flower theme” for my banner image. Waddaya think? I may even change the image every once and a while just to shakes things up – so watch out!

Now I’ve got to update the banner image on all interior pages, reinstate my “currently consuming” list (watching, reading, playing, etc.), add an about page and a resume page, sprinkle with some interesting links, and Bob’s your uncle.

And just to prove that he’s still got the best sense of humor on the block, God decided to throw a monkey wrench into the works the other day by killing the power source in my computer. Ha ha, God. Very funny. So Mr. Fixit here had to go out, buy a new one, and install it myself. I actually enjoyed it. My inner nerd actually likes fiddling around in my tower. But I must send a big shout-out to Bob for helping me determine the difference between your standard ATX power supply and the fancy new BTX ones. Note to anyone trying to connect a BTX power supply to an ATX motherboard: even though you’ve got a cable with 24 pins and the plug only has 20 pins, you should be able to jimmy that sucker in there anyway without fear of frying your entire system. My heart actually stopped when I first turned it on to test it out, but four minutes after is successfully booted my heart started ticking again. So no worries.

Just got back from Dermot and Nuria’s Halloween party out in Les Fonts – about 30 minutes north of Barcelona. It was a fun night, but got a little drunk towards the end (the night, not me).

Dermot was dressed as a polar bear (thought I thought he was a white gerbil) and Nuria was just plain sexy. They were the only two people dressed up until Mau and Lisa showed up as a fluorescent pimp and his school-girl hooker. I was so upset that I didn’t go in costume but it was totally Juls’ fault! She told me that, “It wasn’t that kind of party.” Liar! I would have totally gone in costume. I had spent the past couple weeks leisurely searching the web for interesting ideas. Oh well. I still looked good.

Nuria cooked a ton of amazing food and then we played roulette for about an hour. The beer, rum, whiskey, wine, and absinthe slowly disappeared and we found ourselves singing horrendous renditions of “Hit Me Baby One More Time” and “Hey Jude” to Dermot’s karaoke machine. We then went ‘a capella’ for Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”. Did you know that the British pronounce his name “joe-ELL” instead of “JOLE”? Yeah, two syllables! What are they thinking?

The night ended with a quick round of charades and then we had to dash to catch the last train home. Some of us should have dashed faster than others because Juls and Joan missed the train by about 10 seconds. They had to turn around and spend the night at Dermot’s house along with the pimp and prossy.

When Jan and I got home, there was an absolutely filthy car parked on the sidewalk in front of our house. Someone had written with their finger on the hood “I wish my girlfriend was this dirty” in English. That made me laugh.