7:24 PM
Everyone I know seems to be jumping into the IRC pool these days. I talked to six different people today--three of them at once, at one point. I'm not complaining; it may drag my productivity down, but at least it doesn't drop to zero like it would with a phone call.

I just wish I could kill the damn sounds on my new installation of IRC. Yes, I know how to go into the preferences. I've even gone and deleted IRC's Sounds directory. But still it keeps giving the the Windows ping! every once in a while, as if to say "I may not be able to make the annoying uh-oh! noise, but I'm going to say something, you bastard!" It's really starting to irritate me.