I’ve had to be “available” today, since our application is being installed this weekend, even though I’m not the technical contact and I can’t fix anything if it’s broken.  I think it’s one of those “feel good” kinds of things.  Regardless, I’m stuck here until they’re done. 

My company gave me a new laptop yesterday (Thinkpad T30—2GHz/1GB RAM), so I’ve been passing the time transferring all my stuff from the old one (a two-year old Thinkpad T21—800MHz/768MB RAM) and installing all the software that I need to do my job.  I’m currently at my “command center” with three computers in front of me (the old laptop, the new laptop, and my Linux system).  If that doesn’t define geekiness, I’m not sure what would (I suppose I could bring in the laptop from the living room and fire up the game machine to make it five, but that would just be excessive ).

It’s amazing the amount of stuff that I needed to install, and some of it will have to wait for Monday, when I get back to the office and use the CDs I forgot to bring home (I can get to online images that my company has for internal use from here, but I’m not sure I want to download three products that require 400-500MB each).  On the old laptop I went through all the installed software listed in “Add/Remove Programs” and created a Word document with the status of each one (i.e. already installed on the new one, no longer needed, to be installed).  The list is almost two pages long (which would put it around 100 entries, although I’m too lazy to count it ).

If I didn’t have to stay here, I would have gone to an early showing (12:30) of The Matrix.  Oh well, I guess I’ll try again next weekend (maybe some of the crowds will have thinned out by then).