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Being springtime (though the realities of meteorology seem to contradict me on this one), I've taken the initiative to obtain a 5x10 foot storage unit at a self-service storage place near my apartment. It currently houses some tools and a disassembled Subaru EJ20 engine, and is going to become home to a partially disassembled transmission, a few sets of wheels and tires, side skirts, skidplates, and other miscellaneous automotive items. Most people use storage units to keep furniture, clothing, unwanted holiday decorations, perform dangerous and illegal underground sex change surgeries, and store bodies for future disposal -- but mine will simply contain automotive components and accessories, tools, computer gear, and possibly some clothes.

In the same vein, I upgraded my home PC from Windows 2000 to Windows XP... not a complete re-installation, but a simple "upgrade." Now, it'd be entirely normal for me to say that the "upgrade" had shredded my files, destroyed my installed programs, overwritten my photography archives, and said nasty things about my mother, but ... it's actually working. I'm afraid to look at it, lest it decide, "Woops! I'm a Microsoft product! There's no way that I'll simply upgrade your operating system seamlessly and not screw something up..."

Oh yeah, and I've been trying to teach myself Japanese. Weeeee...