Ten thousand views. Or functionally close to ten thousand views. Wow.

I only wonder how many of those views were me, trying to draw attention to this blog. Probably 70% of 'em.

One day, I might have as many views as Dok has comments.

One thing I hadn't mentioned I'd picked up over the weekend was a trio of insect bites: left Achilles tendon, left shin, right thigh. I thought they were mosquitoes, but they're now red & blotchy like an allergic reaction to fireants. Which is odd, because I'm supposedly not allergic to fireants.

I'm hoping they heal before the game Saturday morning, but it doesn't look like that will happen.

I want to pass along another component: the Koutech FPM220 front panel Floppy drive/card reader [gallery]

Well, the one I ordered was from Koutech, but the box says SOHOUSB. *shrug*

This was mostly something to fill up the external 3½" bay in the case, but I like it. The only thing I *don't* like is that it uses an external USB port, instead of an internal USB header. If they ever redid this to use a 10-1 pin motherboard header (and migrated the other USB port to the front panel), well geez, it'd be perfect.

In the meantime, I removed USB ports 7 & 8 from the expansion slot in the back of the chassis (1-4 are on the I/O panel, 5-6 are on the side of the case), and plugged the cable into one of the ports 7/8 and left it in the bottom of the case. I will keep my nice front and back, thankyouverymuch.

Y'know, 3 months ago, I would've had no idea what I just said.

Last components arrive Friday. Then, I get to try and make them all work together.

-KIE, who is happy for Denver