20th Birthday Hijinx, and a farewell to a computer

I'm typing this post on my brand spanking new laptop. Sorry, all you Mac fans, but this bad boy has the Core Duo and is working just dandy for me. I couldn't help feeling a little sad as I packed away my desktop, though -- I've had the rig for 2 and a half years (I bought it for first year), and I'd probably still be pretty satisfied with it if I didn't have to worry about taking a computer with me to Germany. I guess it's going to a good place, though -- Alice is happy that she's getting herself a new old computer that might actually be able to play games without lagging all to hell. So yeah, Germany! I'm leaving early May for Wurzburg, Germany for an 8-month co-op position with the Technical Physics department at the University of Wurzburg (Link on the right). At this point I don't really know what I'll be doing in terms of work...but hey, I'll be in Europe! Half the reason I took the job was, of course, to travel! There will be many places to go to -- I've got Austria on this list for sure (Salzburg, Vienna...all the noteworthy places for music), tonnes of places within Germany itself...a week in England would be cool, as would the Mediterranean, especially Greece. Italy is on the list...yeah, there are going to be lots and lots of places to go to. Really open-ended at this point, I don't know many details myself but hopefully that'll clear up soon. And as for my 20th birthday...yeeeeah. It was messy. Pictures later...maybe? I really don't know if I should... >_> [EDIT (1:00am) - It's kinda hard falling asleep now, without the really loud drone of the CPU/case fans of my old rig....I guess I'll have to get used to this.]