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Awhile ago, I got a Linuxfund MBNA credit card. Ryan had been reminding me that I should start building credit and that his Linuxfund card got the chicks in grocery store checkout lines. Well, got smiles from the chicks anyhow. So I applied for one and some time later, got both a magical sliver of plastic in the mail and a cute little stuffed Tux.

Today in the mail I got another stuffed Tux. You can see him sitting on top of the little penguin bath toys Care got me recently. I'm not sure why they sent it, but I don't mind having another cuddly cute thing in my possession. You can never have too many cuddly cute things.

I also got a new 3800mAh battery for mu, as I've always been paranoid about the main battery giving out after awhile. This also means that I can go on bus rides and not worry about trying to minimize power consumption: 12h of actual battery life isn't too shabby.

I also improved my vocoder network a bit to use my joystick (USB Gravis Gamepad) as a keyboard. The network now uses the buttons on the joystick for notes and the voice will "sing" those notes. Hear µ "sing" my rendition of Mary Had a Little Lamb.