MS, RPGs, and Other things

Yesterday the little MS Update thingy tells me I've got an update to install. This is fine. I've told it to tell me when it gets them. What's not fine is what it wanted to install. Seems MS decided to send a little thingy to test if my OS was valid or not. Yea, joy, nice to show trust by putting spyware on my comp that can "help" me register for a legal version of XP. Nice to show trust to legit users. More to the point most people who pirate are going to be aware of it and not going to install it either (well the smart ones at least). I am more scared that if this thing screws up that it'll disable my comp and make me jump through hoops as a way to "persuade" me to register my copy of XP. And yes this is a legit copy that came with my tablet but I don't trust MS programming well enough to figure that out. I also don't trust them enough to take any risks if their program decides that this is not a legit copy of XP.

So my total RPG book count has now surged past 110. That's a lot of reading material. Actually one of my goals is to surpass my Dad's library of books (no RPGs but tons of sci-fi). Slowly working my way towards it although my normal book reading has been woefully slow. I've got a backlog over a dozen books long and several of them very long non-fiction books. I love reading, I def. don't do it enough. Mostly at night before bed. Sometimes if it's really good at other times but I think more and more I have become plugged into this digital medium which is both great and utterly dreadful at the same time. Ah, I could wax philosphical on the benefits and ills of the web but I won't bore you anymore.

Time to try to polish Carter up a little bit. It was funny in class, Lena and I were done and a couple of the guys haven't started nor have they taken any notes. It still took Lena and I a good prolly 10-15 hours (over several days) total to get everything up and running right for the most part. Gonna be a lot of extra stress on these guys to turn things out right.