It has indeed been a long week for yours truly. Late nights every night, trying to get about a thousand faculty development things done, and erratic exercise. Ever feel like you aren't getting any time to do the things that you would love to just step aside for two hours to take care of?

I suppose that this week is anomalous; we had the stinking taxes to do, we had to deal with a brand new bed that was defective from the word go (which, BTW, the company is replacing tomorrow!), and it is crunch time for Shel at the Paste offices. Shoot, now that I think about it, I don't feel so bad! Of course we're tired.

But tonight we are kicking back -- going to start off the evening with some Carrburritos take-out, which we are going to wolf down while watching a couple episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with P and T. Then, around nine, it's off to the Cat's Cradle to see The Long Winters open for the Pernice Brothers. Woo woo!

And then, assuming I can squirrel the time away to do it, I'm finally going to mod my Game Boy Advance. Here's what I hope to do:

• Add a Triton Labs Afterburner frontlight to it
• Couple that with a Division 6 Stealth Dimmer chip V.4
• Replace the green and red LED lights with custom blue and orange LEDs.

And here's what's likely to happen:

• Botch the Afterburner install by getting dust on the LCD!
• Short out the circuit board and the dimmer chip with crappy cold solder joints and unintentional bridges!
• Kluge up the LEDs so that neither the originals nor the replacements work!

Oh well -- There's always hoping!