Sunday, July 8, 2001
I had hoped to spend some time this weekend going over Wine with Saalon, but it didn’t happen. It was my fault for not mentiong it while I was there, and since I didn’t wake up until 10:00, after watching Armitage III we only really had time for a meal before Saalon and LWQ dropped me off at Logan Airport. It turns out we could have […]
Saturday, July 7, 2001
I did manage to make it up to Saalon’s. It was a tire this time. Everything went smoothly — driving, parking, waiting, boarding — until we actually sat down on the tiny little plane at 7:00. The captain’s voice echoed over the intercom, telling us that there was a problem with a tire, and we’d have to wait a little while. We waited patiently, then about ten minutes later, […]
Friday, July 6, 2001
I’ll be flying up to meet with Saalon and LWQuestie tonight, provided that all goes well. The last time I attempted this, it didn’t exactly go well, but I can do no more than wait and hope that nothing goes wrong. Meanwhile, work has been alternatively stressful and boring. I got a phone call from my boss this morning, informing me that context-sensitive help was […]
Thursday, July 5, 2001
Well, my day at work pretty much sucked. It wasn’t due to anybody or anything; it was just the sheer amount of annoying last-minute work that I had to do today. I found myself hand-editing screenshots pixel-by-pixel at 5:45. Ugh. So, I came home and pretty much crashed. I tried to watch my Project A-Ko: Uncivil Wars DVD except that it won’t play properly, so I ended up watching an episode of Bubblegum […]
Wednesday, July 4, 2001 — Independence Day (USA)
I managed to drag myself out of bed at 6:30 this morning to trek down to the “fun run” in Great Falls. We were joined by over a hundred other T-shirt-clad folks, from well-muscled profesional runners to Baby Boomers to 8-year-olds who were just doing it for the fun. Dad and I both ran, and we ended up coming in nearer the front of the pack than the rear. We also pushed ourselves too hard, so that […]
Tuesday, July 3, 2001
:sigh: I wrote a lovely article about Usenet as my diary entry this morning, and forgot to save it. I don’t even know if I want to recreate it now. I commented on a quote from Brennen‘s diary entry from Thursday: Usenet. An all consuming mass into which my time and attention hurtle as into the event horizon of some textual black hole. And I just lurk. How does anyone actually participate actively and do *anything* […]
Monday, July 2, 2001
I watched all 57 minutes of Spring and Chaos last night, and as a result I paced the floor of my bedroom until 3:00 a.m. as my mind digested what I’d seen. Spring and Chaos is quite hard to define. It’s about Kenji Miyazawa, one of Japan’s greatest poets. He lived an exuberant but out-of-the-way life, and his poetry and writings received very little attention until after his death. Spring and Chaos isn’t exactly […]
Sunday, July 1, 2001
Nene Romanova from Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 Woohoo! I won this cel of Nene from Bubblegum Crisis 2040 today!