So I bought myself a Dreamcast, the console that Sega abandoned shortly after it was introduced. It is so abandoned that www.dreamcast.com is not really about the console anymore. But the graphics are great and it was dead cheap. So are the games, if you can find them. I briefly fooled around with my one game, Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles. Just what I needed: another distraction.

Speaking of distractions, I will be spending the weekend in Boston and New York.