I was looking over my finances for the year and, er, I made a lot of money from writing. Like, nearly twice what I made at my day job. (Of course, most of it simply vanished into the hole of paying off credit cards and funding Heather's maternity leave.) Still, taxes are going to be painful, so Heather and I decided to quickly rack up some new business expenses before year's end -- so she's getting a new laptop and I'm getting a new desktop. Crazy fast processor and ginormous hard drive, here I come! (The 24" monitor will also be nice.) I can't wait to play World of Warcraft on that thing. Various holiday free shipping deals applied, so I kicked in for two-day shipping. Should have it just in time for my long Xmas break (I'm off work from the 19th through the 26th), which means I'll have time to hook the thing up and reinstall all my software. It comes loaded with Windows Vista, which I'm willing to try, though I may wind up downgrading to XP again...

(Heather's getting a Mac, of course. We're an interdenominational marriage.)