Finally the temperature got up past 10°C and the snow is melting away. I went for a run this afternoon in shorts and my long sleeve running top — it felt great. However I can't give a forest path report as I figured it would be far too slushy, puddly and muddy. The local streams are now raging-river wannabees. A strange time of year, though, in the sun it is warm but running down through a hollow I felt the snow and shade keeping the air a good 5 C° cooler. I sure am looking forward to the day when I can run my regular grassy route, and find out whether I do run faster than in the fall or just think I do. Of course I had to barbeque something for supper tonight.

• I've entered 168 items towards my wife's private teaching expense - income data for her 2002 return; still quite a few more receipts to go.
• The scanner operation is much improved under Windows 2000. Here I thought it was a scanner problem when something would hang every so often. Blame Windows Me again: good riddance.
• Windows 2000 has an ntp client in the W32Time service though it needs a registry tweak to get it going. I used to use a separate application in the Startup directory.
• I have secured the DNS on my firewall but it complained about my win2k box trying to update records. Finally I tracked down a checkbox that was checked and shouldn't have been nested way down in the Advanced TCP/IP settings. I much prefer the Unix way with plain old text configuration files.