Rebuild Update

Functional OS: 1
Functional wireless mouse and keyboard: 0 and 0
Functional old ratty mouse and keyboard: 1 and 1
Thankfulness level at keeping old crap around the house: 100%
Number of times needed to reboot to force old key/mouse to work: 3
Functional monitor: .8
Functional USB devices: 0
Passwords forgotten: 0
Functional new gigs of space: 6
Functional critical programs: Outlook, IE, Office
Nonfunctional critical programs: Trillian, Mozilla, WinAmp
ETA to user getting any time to fix nonfunctional things: 3 days.
Overall pleasure with rebuild now, where 10 is perfectly overjoyed: 8
Overall pleasure last night when first trying to get key/mouse to work, where 1 is suicidal: -3
Excitement felt over getting to twink around with machine making everything work, where 10 is SuperDork: 7

Damn xmas for being so inconveniently close after my rebuild!
Grazi, kyriotate. Thou art patient and possessing of much software.