The most boring blog

Between the 3 of us (me, Mike and Neil) we must have spent at least 50 hours rebuilding my desktop. Even at a conservative $20 er hour, we could have bought 2 new desktop computers for the time we spent! We worked into the wee hours of the morning (esp. I did, since it is after all my computer) and woke up bleary eyed 3 days in a row. I wonder what justifies this kind of time and effort. I think its the challenge of working out the details and finding ways to work around the dozens of obstacles in the way. Sort of like a "real" computer game of Dungeons and Dragons or Windows and Gates (Bill, that is)...