1. Have to go home-office back and forth. Am doing simulation with PC at home -- have to, since computer at office is slow and doesn't have enough memory. Using laptop is no solution, too, since it gets heated quickly. Well, this is the cost you have to pay for playing with huge data set, amid doing simulation. The data set is 15,000 by 30 cells. The simulation needs at least 10,000 repetitions per observation, with at least 100 iterations. This is taking so much time. Not to mention I am a novice in GAUSS programming. Hope everything works.

2. Urbana has been wet for 3 days. But rain is beautiful.

3. Happened to turn on the TV last night (after abandoned sooo long). PBS was airing a documentary on the Kennedys. It was good and very informative (am considering to purchase the DVD). I learned something *new* about that famous dinasty. That Joe, JFK's father, was FDR's main campaign donor. That JFK was nicknamed Jack (hey, I'm no American, don't laugh at my ignorance!). That JFK plagiarized but got Pulitzer for that. That RFK was small and thin. And Ted was problematic drunkard. But Jackie was always the same: Beauty.