First night reporting from the beach house here at virginia beach 
Nice place, had a good time throwing a baseball around with Jimmy and getting a chance to play a couple of games at the fairly broken ping-pong table (I won both, 21-10, 21-19, although it’s fun since Jimmy is definitely better than most of the competition at work)
I hate this 56k dialup though… I hate not having a fat enough pipe to do stuff i want (like, in this case, stream some of my mp3 collection from my home machine
if anyone already has a listing of “geek beach houses” where fast network connections are available, let me know.
Otherwise, I might have to make a couple myself and rent them out.
If nothing else, it sounded like rao didn’t want a thin pipe on his trip back from Cali over the holidays, when I heard him call while I was over at Drew’s place and hear that he’d be crashing with brian, hap, and their cable modem heh
Oh, and this NetZero client has gotten more annoying than I thought they’d be willing to go (click on resume now or get disconnected in 30 seconds! and other crap like that if you don’t interact with their banners as they want you to)
In any case, I’ll probably finish up email soon, do a final cvs checkin of some experimental code, and head to sleep near the fiber-optic christmas tree here at the house… it’s fabulous!
