wednesday night / a site for sore eyes
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November 3, 2001

i had this dream the other day, but didn't put it up. that's just how lazy i am.

walking home from school with sister, but wearing my black gym / painting / sleeping shorts because i had left my real clothes in the locker room. went back to get them... could not remember which locker i put them in or have any clue what the combination was.

went to a locker that i thought might be it and somehow unlocked it - wasn't my stuff. this continued for quite a while... i eventually was in the basement of CIM and alex orfaley was there - i was kind of looking for matt i guess. ran into nat (it was merged with MIT or something) and there was a girl there and i think i was trying to see if she was amy.

with nat went back to the third floor lockerroom with me to look for my stuff. we were on the wrong floor - i guess third floor was girls. i guess we went downstairs and looked some more - i remember going around the school but not many details.

then being outside of the school. i think initially i was walking or something, but i remember being in a taxi with someone (not nat - another friend, but no indication who). we were driving around the school and it was getting pretty big (for a high school) and i was thinking to myself that now that i've to college i can dream of bigger schools.

anyway, i was being driven somewhere and i noticed from the other small cars and saw a delta plane and some other at the airport and realized i was in france - that i was on vacation to geneva and we were driving there from the airport. nat would meet us there.

i don't know if we actually stopped to let the other person with me out, or if they had just gotten out (it might actually have been nat) but i realized that i couldn't speak french, didn't have written down where we were going, didn't have any french money (not so bad - had credit card), and hadn't told the driver where to go (and was wondering where he was going).

so i tried to get the drivers attention but could not speak french. i think there eventually was some communication with him, because i started frantically searching my backpack for a piece of paper saying where we were going. around then, there were 2 or 3 other frenchman in the taxi with me, friends of the taxi driver. they were saying what to do or something, and at that point i realized i didn't even have my passport (and told them this). fortunately i did find it a minute or two later, but it was all messed up and they took it and put it in the glove compartment.

then i just remember driving for a long time - through a forest with lots of leaves and stuff. some elementary school teacher near at the side of the rood at an intersection wearing a witch (or something else... don't remember) and trying to scare kids in the cars. she may have been drunk.

that's all i remember before waking up.

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November 4, 2001

yay, the yankees lost.

i think my neighbors are yankees fans cause as soon as the game was over they started pounding on my ceiling for me to turn moby down.

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November 6, 2001

it's great when you wake up to find that your gnome 2 snapshot and ~ backup both worked.

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November 7, 2001

last night i had dreams with 3 of my recurring themes:

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November 13, 2001

I do not appreciate bacon on the other hand to certainly are coated you with it with the head to the foot

over the past few months, i have occasionally recieved im's from some french dude. i may have mentioned it before. here is an excerpt:

---- New Conversation @ Tue Nov 6 10:20:36 2001 ----
(10:20:35) Mariolivier: salut !
(10:21:47) Mariolivier: Toc Toc Toc
(10:22:17) Mariolivier: Oh Tu dors ou quoi???

sadly, this did not make much sense at the time. today, however, i got the following message:

---- New Conversation @ Mon Nov 12 12:22:40 2001 ----
(12:22:40) Sylviaerhel13: comment se fait il que vous utilisier ce pseudo

after a brief struggle with babelfish, i received this message:

(12:29:45) Sylviaerhel13: je n'apprécie pas le lard par contre certainement vous en êtes enrobée de la tête au pied

today joe and i watched something on pbs about letters written home during various wars (which, now that i think about it, i may have seen before, unless they've done a few of them). there are a few things i could say about it.

the weekend was pretty fun. friday night i hung out with one of my friends from chautauqua many years ago. saturday night joe and i saw the bruins get creamed by the bluejackets. we had good seats and can now see ourselves on the TiVo. sunday i lost the cup. it was a pretty lackluster performance given that it was ot in game 7.

winter's cold embrace is, umm, embracing boston finally. it's a brisk 33 out right now.

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November 14, 2001

i think joe gave me tendonitis. he will probably try to deny it, just like when he denied giving me west nile.

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November 16, 2001

another week, another season done. time for the weekend playoff dance, again. did i mention i traded jagr? i am taking this cup crazy thing to a new level.

joe is trying to get me to buy an iPod. he needs to try just a little bit harder.

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November 18, 2001

lately joe has been pretty obsessed with britney spears.

i, on the other hand, have been playing the sim city demo. unfortunately, loki is out of stock on the real version, so i will have to get the windows one. the upside is i am getting decent at building up a city in 10 years. my last one had 77k citizens.

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November 19, 2001

That there, that's not me I go where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here, I'm not here In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah, it's gone I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here, I'm not here Strobe lights and blown speakers Fireworks and hurricanes I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here, I'm not here....

btw their new live cd rules.

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November 23, 2001

The lights are on but nobody's home

Everyone wants to be a friend

Nobody wants to be a slave

while at home and in the airport this week i've hacked up a couple of acpi applets. one is a battery applet, the other tells me the performace state and cpu speed things seem to be running at.

sprint coverage in cleveland sucks. apparently they are not allowed to build cell towers.

last night i hung out with my friends dave and lenza. i hadn't seen dave since last thanksgiving, and lenza since january. dave is now substitute teaching in the local schools, and had my other friend's sister in one of his classes.

the other day i made the mistake of buying some software (sim city 3000 unlimited for windows). i was going to order the linux one but it is out of stock. it is hard to be profitable when customers cannot buy your products. it is probably harder if you are losing money by keeping stuff in stock that nobody is buying.

anyway i didn't have windows installed, and i couldn't find my "system restore" cd for my new vaio, so getting windows on this laptop was quite difficult. it took like seven hours i think. then, when i finally could install sc, it required the cd to run (there were no cd drivers that worked with my laptop on sony's site, even though it is a sony cd drive). much pain.

mike h from support@ea.com fame sez:

the really questionable thing was why i bought the game. anyway, it should be easy enough to play on the other vaio so i will be doing that when i return to boston. i've been playing the demo, and it is still quite difficult to get a city up to 100,000 people in 10 years. especially when the demo crashes sometimes. apparently there is a fix for the full version, but not for the demo. so i have to just hope that it works.

We are the dollars and cents And the pounds and pence And the mark and the yen, and yeah We're going to crack your little souls

i remember back in mid-september people were much more curteous while driving. it's all gone now.

thank you everybody, g'night.

blah. i had a really good city. money was coming in, my loans weren't bad. the citizens were demanding a zoo and i was starting to put in a subway when it crashed. sigh.

BUG! Assertion failed, cleaning up. Sim City 3000 Unlimited 2.0.955 Built with glibc-2.1 Please send the text of the failed assertion, along with the contents of autosave to: support@lokigames.com

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November 29, 2001

99:44 into game 7 of the eastern semi's, and i get to play philly (again) in the 2006 eastern conference finals. ugh.

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