As usual, the new year started out great! Last night my machine decided to commit suicide when the mainboard(and/or the cpu) ceased to function in the middle of a render. It got even more fun when i found out that finding a mainboard these days that supports Rambus is even harder than solving the key for time travel. Today i had to send the new kitten to the dentist and pull a tooth, which costed a small fortune, and to top that off, the girlfriend fell on the icy streets and damaged her hand. Tommorrow, ill have to cough up around $1000 for the new system, and then ill have the undescribable joy of trying to save 80 gb of scenes, models, photos etc from the old drives to a new one. Considering my luck so far, i expect at least an explosion or a burnt out apartment. There must be a higher being up there somewhere, and he definitely hate tentacled guys... :D

Rudolf Herczog
Digital Artist
www.rochr.com