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It's been a while since my last post ... things have been busy at work but what else is new? At least I got a little time off back in July to take a roadtrip with my dad and visit my bro in San Diego and then we made the trek up to Las Vegas to take a little money off the casinos. In case you didn't know roulette is my game, and although I won't go so far as to say I have a winning system, I usually do pretty well and have fun while doing so -- what else could you want?

But then it's been back to work and although two of my cases thankfully settled before trial I still have 3 more on the calendar for this year, and that's still a ridiculous amount of work. I head to Washington DC next week for a trial at the ITC that will run about a week and a half; when I get back I think I have another hotel room waiting for me in San Jose to prepare for the next trial that may last several weeks. So this may well be my last post for another long stretch; as you might imagine I've been spending my days and nights at the office getting ready for all this action. Oh yeah, and then another trial coming in November. Maybe I will actually get a day or two off sometime in October.

Life's no fun without new gadgets, but my latest new toy is probably something a lot of people are starting to take for granted these days -- a new iPod! My first real iPod actually, my only other one being an iPod Shuffle. Due to a mishap involving the washing machine and her Shuffle, I gave my Shuffle to V. and picked up a new iPod Classic 160GB. I decided to go for the black finish because, well, it only comes in black or silver and I think white or silver iPods are just a little too common. Oddly though the black iPod still comes with white headphones -- guess that's the Apple branding at work ... but I guess I could just get any run-of-the-mill black set of earplugs to go with it. I've spent the last few days putting as much music and video as I can find the time to collect onto the iPod, but I've hardly made a dent on the 160GB hard drive... I just don't have that much music I guess. To be honest the 80GB version would probably have been fine, but V. got me the 160GB and I guess it'll be more than enough storage for a long time to come. Anyways it will be great to have along with me as I travel to and from the east coast in the coming months.