if all goes well today, i should finish the patio, having already made it weather tight with a fortifiber membrane. i now want to cover all the material with hardiplanks, a fiber cement siding product with a 50 year guaranty. then i pack for a three day run to comdex in las vegas. maybe after that a trip to philadelphia, but this is too far into the future to plan. i’m preparing to become an apple certified technical coordinator, by passing a simple 56 question test. by the end of the year, i’ll be a real apple OS X engineer!