I'm sat here at a friend's place, using his PC, and I finally know what I want for Christmas - a new PC with a broadband connection, so that I can sit here in the Paris suburbs (as I am doing now) with a nice cold beer in my hand and watch live baseball games from 4,000 miles away all summer long! I'm not a big Cubs or White Sox fan, but US Cellular Field looks like a little piece of heaven to me right now.

Well, I'm off to watch the last two innings of the game, and then I think I'll sit down and make a start on my letter to Santa Claus...