Another Word for Nerd

What if the 2004 presidential election is called off or “postponed” due to a well-timed terrorist attack? I’m starting to like our current president less and less.

In other news, 667 US troops have been killed in Iraq since March 2003. See a photo mosaic here.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-war, I’m just anti-war when there wasn’t a real reason to go to war other than “Saddam beat my daddy, but he won’t beat me!”.

I’ve lived in Texas for almost eight years now, and I’ve never had a tex-mex dish that had mole sauce in it. Mostly, this was due to the description (”eww, chocolate and peppers? that sounds disgusting!”) and Amy’s description of what was, apparently, a VERY badly done mole dish she had in the northeast a few years ago.

We went to El Mercado on Burnet (she was craving Tex-Mex). I felt adventurous, so I ordered the mole enchiladas (shredded chicken, with mole sauce and white cheese on top). They were AMAZING - since its not a milk chocolate, or a sweet chocolate, its an interesting taste. Almost like a sweet “red bean” sauce/paste from asian cooking. I really liked it, and will probably order the normal mole plate the next time we go back.

Along with a coworker, today we hauled 56 (yes, fifty-six) 19″ and 21″ monitors, three or four at a time, from the third floor of our building down to the parking lot, where a recycling company palletized them and hauled them away. Also discarded were about fifteen old/broken/obsolete PCs. I scrounged all the CPUs, memory, hard drives, and cards before we tossed the boxes (basically carcasses after we got through with them), and have quite a nice pile of Slot-1 CPUs, PC100 RAM, 3Com 10/100 network cards, and Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards now.