The audio driver was throwing blue screens of death at me.  Luckily an upgrade to the latest version fixed it.  It always ticks me off--all the driver has to do is dump out a waveform.  Maybe a little a-law/u-law conversion and adding waveforms, but nothing that justifies enough memory use/processing to crash.  But nowadays everything has extras (like detecting if the headphones are plugged in--which I promptly disabled since I don't want to unplug the headphones just to use the speakers, an equalizer--which if I ever needed is provided by my audio player, etc.)

I think my brain keeps on running off by twenty years.  Not that that's a bad thing--Atari 2600 games are still fun this way.

First (sort-of)snow today.  Wet, cold and icy, feels like I'm back up in Erie.

I need to poke around an Access database and translate the data into a new format so I'm looking into adding C# to my languages.  So far, it looks identical to Java, but without having to hack in the function pointers and the IDE is less blatantly annoying.