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Tuesday was my little brother’s 17th birthday. Nothing like having a ‘little’ sibling celebrate a birthday with big numbers to make one feel old. :) Megan and I drove down, crawled our way (figuratively) through miles and miles of construction and traffic stopped on the Interstate, and arrived precisely on-time, whereupon I ate three hamburgers, a hot dog, a large piece of cake and a huge bowl of ice cream. Yummy. Gah. He had more cute girls there than I ever had at a birthday party whilst I was a teenager. Then again, any number larger than zero beats me.

Tuesday also brought me my new wireless broadband router, which I set up shortly before leaving for Will’s party. It was pretty simple to set up, though figuring out how to pass ports through from the router to my computer (for things like FTP and VNC access) was a bit more complicated.

Wednesday, my new Zaurus 5500 arrived while I was at work. :) It’s still taking me a while to learn all the new stuff, but I’m catching on slowly but surely. I don’t much care for the built-in calendar, but it’ll do, I guess. Until I find a replacement. Yesterday, I installed Perl, VNC, and Doom. *grin* I still haven’t figured out how to use the Zaurus controls on Doom, but the demo ran while I was punching away at the keys, and the graphics look excellent. I still haven’t bothered to test the sound.

Yesterday, I had my first real meeting with my first real client, so I guess I’m free to talk more about it now. His name is Dr. Stephen Aigner, he’s a professor in Sociology here in the department, and he’s starting a new consulting company called Aigner & Associates. And I’m his web guy. :) He let me set my own terms for employment, and while I think I was very fair, it sounds like I undercut my competition by well over $20 an hour. *grin* Ah, well. I set my fees low on purpose, with the understanding that I don’t have much professional experience yet, and most of what you pay for when you pay a professional freelancer’s fee IS that professional experience. When I know more, I’ll charge more. Until then, my clients are doing just as much for me as I am for them.

Still haven’t heard anything from the Stat department regarding their contest. In fact, I never even got a confirmation email from the lady I sent my entry to. Hrm. Mebbe I should send a follow-up email.

I’ll write more later tonight. Hopefully, I’ll be posting my first entry from my new PDA, as my wireless card is supposed to arrive today. We’ll see.