So I hear that Microsoft has released a new Service Pack for Windows XP. I imagine I should probably get around to installing it on the new computer that's purring away in my Unnamed-Room-That-Used-To-Have-The-TV-In-It, but I hesitate to do so, for the simple reason that ever since the last time I ran Windows Update on my work-issued laptop, it takes roughly 17 minutes to open Internet Explorer for the first time. And that interferes with my ability to read Achewood, which is really the only thing I do at work other than fail to update this website regularly.

Has anybody out there installed the latest Service Pack? I'd love to have your feelings on it. After installation, have you noticed any of the following symptoms:

• Slow processing speeds?
• Inability to read amusing cartoons featuring stuffed animals?
• Shortness of breath?
• Inability to download "BangBus" videos?
• A not so fresh feeling in, you know, "The Area?"
• Eyeball lacerations?

Please leave comments below regarding the above.

In other news, HW and I are going to Boston for a long weekend! I'm looking for suggestions of cool things to do while we're there. My parents said something about going to the Boston Public Library, but at the mention of the word "architecture" my eyes kinda glazed over and my forehead landed in warm quesadillas.

Beantown native Rod suggested I check out George's Island and try to get it on in one of the prison cells - I mean, look for ghosts. The only things I really have planned is that at some point, we will be finding a bar to watch the Red Sox play the Oakland As whilst surrounded with the Fenway Faithful, and on Sunday morning we're gonna get up at the buttcrack of dawn to go watch my buddy Doug run in the Boston Athletic Association Half-Marathon to benefit some kind of hiv.

Leave suggestions in the comments, along with the XP Service Pack stuff, and I'll try and sort all that stuff out. I expect to be able to post something amusing tomorrow, and MAYBE something over the weekend, but with any luck I'll have PLENTY of truly disturbing pictures taken on the trip that I'll post early next week.