Lows:

• My Mac Mini ate it over the weekend through a combination of circumstances and my own stubborn insistance that computers are my playthings and they will bend to my desires. Just FYI - all those websites purporting that they have THE instructions on how to take apart a mini without breaking it? They're mostly wrong.
• Some jackass tried to play donought boy on the way in to work this morning right in front of me because people can't remember what it's like to drive on slick roads even though we spend six months out of the year with slick roads. I slowed down as rapidly as I could without actually sliding right into him and was quite proud of myself that I stopped just short of him. The guy behind me wasn't so lucky. Something about driving a super-weight SUV that leads to problems with inertia on damn near pure ice. So I get to play with insurance for the next few days. That'll be fun.
• Through the above, also found out that my driver's license expired in '06, which you'd think either the guy copying it at the insurance company or the auto-dealership over the past few months would have said something about and I'm obviously too fucking stupid to remember to check more than once every five years or so. (Mrs. NFB swears she remembers me renewing it. Funny thing, I thought so too.)
• Natalie Halloway (or however that's spelled) is back in the news this morning, just in time to distract from the Giant's victory and the stupid ass "BIGGEST FAT TUESDAY EVAR!" that's going to narrow the field from two people who're almost acceptable and two people that suck ass to just two people who suck ass.
• My mom's husband pops off at dinner - "The way a lot of these businesses are heading, if we get the wrong presidential administration elected and they try to nationalize healthcare, it'll just drive them right out of business." I almost asked if he was dumb enough to believe lowering the overall cost of health insurance that businesses help cover while raising taxes to compensate was going to drive them out of business, then I remembered he's an insurance salesman and sat on my lip.

Mids:

• That big pile of money I was sitting on, waiting for the music equipment sales to start up for the year covered the expense of a new (to me) Mac. Which means I'm waiting a few more months to get my monitors, bass, etc., etc., etc.
• The guy who hit me wasn't a complete jackass about it and we had a nice little chat about contacting insurance and what a living hell that is to deal with. I did my best to return the favor. Just because he drives the biggest vehicle he can find doesn't mean he doesn't have feelings too.

Highs:

• The new Mac will be approximately twice as uber geek as the Mini was. The Mini was a good box when I bought it, but I'd really pushed it about as far is it could go anyway. The new one almost doubles processor speed, does double memory, and more than doubles hard drive space. Plus, nice big screen. I couldn't resist the iMac when nearly the same cost netted you so much less in the new Mini and didn't include the bigger monitor I've been craving in the deal.
• Got Thursday and Friday off.
• People can finally stop talking about New England being the greatest team of all time.

Enough. I got a cop waiting to talk to me. That should get the gossip-hounds on the scent.