So, I left Las Cruces at about 9:30am saturday. I saw on the weather pages that there was possible snow in santa fe and colorado, so I wanted to try and get an early start. About 7 hours of the trip was totally uneventfull and normal. When I got to about pueblo there started to be slick roads. Which of course brings out the other thing: stupid drivers. There were at least 2 pileups in colorado springs, and one really nasty looking roll over. Even after driving by these I still had people try and blast past me at 50mph with no clue. Luckily I avoided them all. About where the ren faire is the roads cleared up and it was smooth sailing back home. Got in about 8:30pm.

Of course then the fun begins. Looked over my main box and found out that the problem with it was the cpu fan. It would fire up, make some really really scary noises and then power off. At least it's good that it powered off instead of crisping the CPU. No problem says I, I will just move the drive to another machine and bring it right up. Well, before the CPU died it appears to have done a good job scribbling on the hard drive. Ran a fsck on it for about 2 hours and managed to get a few things off it, but not much. Decided to zorch it and just re-install and restore the user data. Of course then I had to burn some install cd's since I gave my last set away on the trip. Finished that, re-installed, restored all the user files. Since I didn't have any backups of the config area, I basically had to resetup mail, news, etc. Got it mostly working and turned on, and then it was 4am. :(