June 9, 2000

So the past couple of weeks have been mostly busy. It sucks, but what always seems to happen is that when I am most busy, I don't have time or am too tired to write in this thing. Which isn't so good since usually those are the times when stuff actually happens. What then occurs is that my life ends up seeming even more boring than it actually is. Anyway, here is a summary of what I can remember.

So the CD finally got done. We fixed some bugs before burning it. CDs are a pain.

We started having some meetings for discussing the new build system and updater. It is nice having more people working here, cause now Joe and I don't have to do everything. So I have some time to sleep. Well, except for the 30th to the 1st, where i went like 63 hours with 3 hours of sleep in the middle.

So on the 3rd the company had a little trip to Six Flags. Or, as we like to call it, "Four Rides." Anyway, what happened was that the first three rides broke while we were standing in line. So what sucks is that either you wait 30 minutes in line, or you go to some other line and wait even longer. So we waited and stuff. The line for Superman took like 3 hours. After it was done, i thought, "Would I rather do that, or go to a baseball game?"

So anyway Cedar Point is a lot better.

So I did something that night, after coming home from the Flags place.

After getting home from whatever i was doing, I slept for 25 hours. That is going to be a hard record for me to beat, but I will try again when the time is right.

More meethings this week.

Oh, and a couple of meetings.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

So this week I had an almost normalish sleeping schedule. It was kind of, weird. But hopefully once things get more busy it will change.

We have new cubes in the basement now. Mine is like big and stuff. It rules just a small bit shy of completely. I put my Zeppelin poster thingie in it, which is a better place than on the floor in my apartment.

So Sony has a new laptop coming out. It is pretty sweet. After some phone calling, it appears that they aren't being made until July 3rd, and I wouldn't be able to get it for a couple of weeks after that.

Blah blah blah.

On Thursday Harold and I went to the Boston / Cleveland baseball game. It was Colon vs. Martinez, and was a really good game. Our seats were pretty good too. Unfortunately, Boston won. Sigh.

It is getting hot in Boston these days.

So I think I was mostly in a good mood this week. Maybe cause I've been sleeping. Anyway I am still looking for some happiness :)

June 12, 2000

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life.

I guess I am going to give my laptop to my sister. I do owe her a birthday present.

Today I got serendipity up and running again. It is a pretty nice box. I am going to use it as my desktop machine at work, since I felt it has been neglected the past couple of months since I got my laptop. Sigh, lots of fond memories of that machine. Which is ironic, since like the only stuff that was with it originally that are still there are like the sound card, network card, and power supply. Even the name is different than it used to be :)

Had some discussions with people today. Some were nice, some weren't so nice. Sounds like Milk Duds. Or something.

Watched "Fight Club" at the Cave. Listened to Carmina Burana on the walk home. I had a "Sliding Doors" moment, which was kinda weird. Sometimes I wish I was either stupider or not such a wuss or something. Life would be more interesting then.

Upon returning to the office, learned that it isn't such a great idea to drink 2 cokes and 2 mt. dews in 20 minutes. I am not sure if it was that, or the fact that it was more like 1.5 cokes and 1.5 mt. dews in 2.5 minutes.

Not such a good idea at 2 in the AM, anyway.

Anyway, time to give sleep a try, for a little bit anyway.

June 14, 2000

I finally got a cell phone today. Took a lot of walking though. They don't just give those things to anyone, you know.

Pushed some updates out that arik did... sawfish, gaim, gdm, gimp, gnapster was all i think.

Still trying to get motivated. Not sure if it is post-1.2 fallout / burnout, or other things. I think it is a combination. Which is a really dumb thing to say, cause, like, duh.

Mig is back. Went to dinner, saw some movie (it sucked and didn't suck...), then saw a couple of Friends episodes on TiVo at the Cave.

June 15, 2000

Woke up at 8:30 in the AM.

Mig was going to call so we could go to IHOP. So I had some weird little dreams related to the noises coming from outside intermingled with me waking up and seeing what time it is (it is nice having my phone nearby for that function... I have to have the alarm clock far away since I am good at turning it off in my sleep so I can't read what time it is from where I sleep).

Anyway he called around 10:30 in the AM and i was mostly asleep, so he was going to go to Dunkin Donuts and I was going to go to sleep.

So I did, and had some Epic dream.

I don't really remember the beginning. There are a couple of things that are coming back to me now... I can remember going fishing or something, but not how the fishing turned into the rest. Or maybe the fishing was from one of the earlier dreams... I can't really remember.

Anyway, the part that I really remember was we were at some park or something, like a Disney place. And there was some thing where they had some robotic dinosaurs. So what they do is have the Tyranosaurus hunt someone in the audience around the park.

So, since this was my dream, I got to be the person it chased. I remember having a mouse (computer) there, or something. Anyway, I like jumped in the pit, and the T. Rex came out of wherever they keep him. I ran into this little place he didn't see, and could remember thinking "If I weren't dreaming, I'd be able to run better", and then I jumped out of the pit. I guess I figured he wouldn't come out. I think i was wrong or something, cause the next thing I did was run really fast away from the pit place.

I remember running around and seeing a map of the place in my head. I know the map is of some place I've been to, but right now I can't exactly remember which. It might have been the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which would make sense cause they had some robotic dinosaurs there when I was little. Anyway, there was some running.

So I guess I ran into some people who were going to go to a wedding soon or something. They were getting a tour of the place, like at a zoo. But the animals were robotic and stuff, but look more computer animated. They were pretty cool, but they had the animals like scaring people and stuff. Like the hippo was like going to attack this one lady, and then they cited when some Floridian hippo did this. I can't remember if it was in 1995 or 1997, though.

Anyway, I had decided that a bathroom would be a good place to go to, so I could maybe change my smell. I figured I couldn't completely, so the T. Rex was going to get me in the end. So I found a bathroom, but it was not a very good one and it was falling apart or something so I started running somewhere else.

I remember then like, being my friend or something, and his sister and mom being there, and still trying to like run away from the dinosaur. There were like all these old staircases like in warehouses and stuff. And pretty much the rest of the running away consisted of me going through these stairs and stuff.

Then I remember being back at the main place, and the thing being over or something, but they wanted to do some more stuff with me getting chased by dinosaurs. Which I was like, "no". So I started throwing stuff at everyone (I can't remember what). Anyway, they didn't get more dinosaurs chasing after me.

I don't remember if there was a wedding or not, but there was like a reception, which I didn't go to. And so I was walking home and there was a car which sounded like the Jetsons' car (it was a white, old, station wagon).

And then I woke up or something.

So this probably has some meaning. I don't know what it means, but it isn't the first dream I've had where I was chased by dinosaurs. At least in this one I was supposed to run, and not drive. That one was scary.

June 20, 2000

Woke up at 10 in the AM for some steercom meeting action. After one snooze my alarm clock was playing some Cream, which is good to wake up to.

Miggie didn't wake in time.

Lunch with mig at the mall place.

Committed some gmc stuff I'd done and a couple of bug fixes.

Eventually dinner at some place with Nat, Harold, and Kara. I had some scallops which were good, but I guess not as good as Nat's lamb stuff.

Cafe Algiers action with the 3 others. Some interesting discussion and what not.

Watched some Friends at the Cave before going back to the office where I fetched mail and then went home to sleep (listening to Cream).

June 23, 2000

It seems like we are going to start using the GDM_LANG patch on all the distros; I can't seem to find where $LANG is getting unset.

Movie night: "Chicken Run" at the new place by the Cave. They gave away some stuff to people who are smarter than me, cause it was the opening night and all. It was nice except that the seats aren't yet broken in.

Some food and what not at the Audobon, followed by Cave hangout. I think we watched Happy Gilmore, and at some point we had watched some friends, but I think that was before the movie. It might have been after, too, as there is always a lot of friends to watch.

A nice walk home.

June 24, 2000

Woke up and wanted to hear "Judy Blue Eyes" and so I took a trip to the Best Buy. Unfortunately, I think I wanted to hear the Woodstock version a bit more than the one on that CD, although the rest of it is very nice.

Walked to the Commons from the sweatshop. Boston is pretty nice, I've decided. I did like it the 5 days I was here in 12th grade, but I think I like it more now.

I've started thinking about a plot for my movie... it is kinda lame but I guess it isn't as bad as a lot of stuff that people like.

June 25, 2000

Finally got the wavelan suspending. Apparently I am not very bright.

More walking around in the park and what not. Boston is nice.

It was pretty windy today; there were quite a few overturned sailbots in the might charles today.

Last night Nat worked on a Gnumeric update. He says he now understands me a lot better. I am not quite sure how to take that.

Dinner at Mary's with Vlad, Joe, and Kara. Then movie: "Me, Myself, and Irene". I think my movie has a good chance.

Some Friends watching at the Cave.

June 30, 2000

Woke up to Zeppelin.

Did some reading on Bonobo, KDE's applet stuff, and some other stuff.

Ate some Chef B for "lunch"

Coffee at Cafe Pamplona with Nat until we realized it was Movie Time.

Met Joe and Kara at the movie place.

Sometimes I am quite wrong about movie previews. And then there is "The Perfect Storm". It was the worst movie I can remember seeing in semi-recent history (a history which includes "Frequency" and "Me, Myself, and Irene". Anyway, I left early since it sucked so much and I figured I knew what would happen (ed: alas, I was wrong). When I was leaving the theater, some people asked me how the movie was. Which is funny, since I left, and there were a whole bunch of people still watching it. But whatever.

Some Friends watching at the Cave. That Joey...

Waited for Nat at the cave for a couple of hours but he didn't show, so I decided to walk home. For some reason I was feeling depressed.

The highlight of the walk home came when I hit a taxi. The driver was pretty pissed. It is good to know that you can probably outrun a lot of people.

Went to bed, which was when Nat called.

Went to Charlie's Kitchen with Nat, Mig, and Matt.

Went to the Cave for some what not. Had a fun and interesting time.

IHOP with Joe and Kara. I didn't have the usual, since I wasn't wanting pancakes.

Got to use my T pass for the first time. I do prefer walking to taking the T.

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