My Treo 650 phone gave up the ghost this afternoon. I can probably go a few days without that cell phone (I have a company-issued Blackberry cell phone…), but the thing I use the phone for the most is to play FreeCell. It gives me something to do with my hands when I’m just sitting around. I have to send the phone off to Texas for either repair or replacement. Palm One says that they’ll have it back in about five business days. That suggests replacement with a factory repaired model. The lady on the help line from Palm One was very helpful and quite efficient.

It’s been a pretty good Saturday and a very good football day. There were enough floaties that the hot tub needed the water replaced. I picked up a pump from the hot tub vendor yesterday after work and got the water replaced last night. I needed to return the pump this morning. After that I went by the Church Distribution Center to pick up thirty November Ensigns for Nina to take to the prison. I’d like to upgrade the web server I’m running, so I stopped by the used computer store. There wasn’t anything there that looked like it would fit my requirement so I’ll do some shopping on eBay. I have two servers — one is used inside my network for name resolution and testing software. It’s also a backup server if something happens to the web server. The other server is the actual web server. They’re both Pentium III 450mhz systems. I’d like to bring them up to Pentium IV around 1ghz. I’ll upgrade the software to Suse Linux 10 (currently running Suse 9). The upgrade is more for reliability purposes rather than anything else … it shouldn’t make much difference for web users.

After getting home I decided to try out a Windex window washing process similar to what the car wash places use to wash the windows. It seems to have worked pretty well. We haven’t washed the windows since we’ve been in the house and some of them were very dirty. They look much better, but not as good as washing them by hand. I need a taller step ladder to do that. The rest of the day has been spent doing little things inside the house and watching football. Purdue successfully defended the Oaken Bucket. Ohio State survived Michigan. Rutgers may well get beaten (the score is 17-3 late in the 3rd quarter with Rutgers losing to Cincinnati who is poised to score yet again). USC is getting roughed up by California at the half and I’m busy switching back and forth between these two games. I enjoy college football!

Nina has been in a baking mode today. That’s always very good. Homemade sandwich rolls, dinner rolls for Thursday, chocolate chip cookies, and other great stuff. Delicious!

Tomorrow we’ll go to Soda Springs for the afternoon. Jim, LeeAnn, and family have been in Logan the past few days for LeeAnn’s parent’s fiftieth wedding anniversary. They’ll be in Soda Springs tomorrow night, then here for a couple of nights. Hurrah!