i woke up to discover a plumber working downstairs; after a bit we had working water in the kitchen again, which meant clean dishes, which meant having some soup. also a non-double-digit-negative wind chill means the apartment got reasonably warm - i believe it hit 68° - all good news.
in preperation for shaver's arrive in march, phil graced us with a most excellent christmas gift: a multitap dingus and 2 extra controllers for the ps2. it turns out that the ea games (nhl, ncaa football, and madden 200x) support up to 8 players with 2 multitap dingusses. unfortunately i don't have that many friends.
we managed to keep phil from going home and playing simcity 4 long enough to get in some rounds of SEGA SPORTS TENNIS. the sad news is, the player who partnered with the computer won all 3 sets we played. oh well.
i'm still unsure of what to do with my former main computer. it's still sitting in the living room - turned off. the first thing i should probably do is make a backup of it - in case we need to put it back for some reason. blah blah blah.
it's 4am and i can't think of anything else.