I know Wacom has that competition going on right now - and I should be entering my own piece (decently along already; but still a lot of work ahead of me); but my Graphire 3's mouse finally died so I didn't have a choice.
I use that machine, and thusly the mouse, for graphics and gaming. With the release of Left 4 Dead, the 3+ year old mouse/tablet just didn't stand a chance. I had noticed it a while back, but just thought it was my computer being stupid - then yesterday, it became constant: the left click button only worked if I was pressing it in a weird, obscure, sideways sort of way.

So, I picked up a Bamboo - Fun. It's a sleek little tablet. The packaging was very nice too - formal, clean, but with a bit of fun to it. I played around with it on the image mentioned above, and with just a little tweaking to the firmness, the lines were already blending in flawlessly with those from the Graphire 3.

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I found out there's basically nothing I can do for my cat allergies. I'm worse off against a bunch of other things (as one person put it, I'm basically allergic to outside during the spring and fall); but I'm going to be constantly exposed to cats - Becky (fiance) is going to bring two with into our new home, one of them at my request (she's adorable and silly).
Looks like I'm going to be taking Zyrtec, Alaway, and Flonase for the rest of my life. Totally worth it though, especially if I get a laser pen.

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Speaking of a house, fiance, and such:
We're looking to put in a bid by late July, with closing by late September - giving us about a month or more to move in. Only problem is we may have found "The One" and we haven't even actually looked at it yet. That particular house is a 4 level split; with a detached 4+ car garage, parking for 8 cars outside the garage, about 1 acre of land, city-quality playground; plus the house itself is ~2800 square feet.
Plus it's pretty much all hardwood floors - which'll help on the allergies (and let the Roomba zip around faster).