I hate this.  I have to sneak to work after hours to blog, and that pretty much sucks all the pleasure out of it.  The magician may have found a new board for my box -- it has a non-standard mainboard design, split in two, an I/O board where all the PCI, USB, drives, and stuff resides, and a processor board where all the memory and (you guessed it) the processor resides.  The I/O half is the fried half. 

I should know one way or the other some time before Spring -- tomorrow, I hope.  I expected it back within days when I left it there a month ago.  I miss my e-mail, my regular Web sites, and I miss my system.  I miss you.