Natalie
Natalie and I conversed on Yahoo IM for a couple of hours this morning. She introduced me to some of the lesser known features (lesser known to me) like themes and the little avatars. I use Gaim at the house so none of these will work.
It have to say, it was very distracting. It was also very nice.

Notebook
I'm going to sell my notebook. I don't have much use for it any more. I'm re-staging the drive right now. It takes like a half hour to format the drive. I told the guy getting it I would not do it, but I kept finding references to porn in the log files so I figured I better go ahead and just wipe the drive clean. It will take for ever to get the Dell drivers on the system. Then put Office on it. Next put a firewall software on the highly vulnerable OS. Then run all the updates. I'm not sure what all he needs on the computer. I'm sure we can make things work. I hope between the Dell drivers and the updates that I can still get everything to operate. Damn wireless stuff and funky pointers on notebooks don't always take right out of the box.
They make you install a bunch of updates before you get to service pack 2. That is a pain in the butt. The system was already starting the download of SP2. It is just showing the bar right now. It is something like 100 megabytes.