Friday, June 8, 2001
According to The Screen Savers, the top five best-selling computer games of all time (as of today) are…get ready for this…: at #5, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, #4 is Microsoft Flight Simulator, #3 The Sims, #2 Roller Coaster Tycoon (probably the “Wal-Mart Bargain Bin Syndrome”), and #1 Myst. What’s so interesting about this, besides the fact that Roller Coaster Tycoon is the #2 best-selling computer game of all time […]
Thursday, June 7, 2001
Heh. Take a week off, and I don’t have the time to update my diary. I got two anime DVDs in the mail today; the Project A-Ko “Love and Robots” disc, which contains Project A-Ko 2 through Project A-Ko 4; and the first 13 episodes of Digimon on one disc. Sadly, the Digimon disc is limited to introductory episodes; very little really good stuff. Still, they had some really cute “bloopers” (“Uh-oh! […]
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
I knew when I woke up this morning that I probably wouldn’t have much time to myself today. I decided to make the most of the day, though, and refrain from complaining or feeling depressed about it. I woke up late; about 11:30 a.m. Dad and I went back to the airport and had excellent steak and cheese sandwiches at a little deli there, then exchanged our European money back into dollars (the currency exchange office […]
Monday, June 4, 2001
‘Twas very productive today, despite early yearnings otherwise. I started out with devotions on my deck, then I worked my way through two chapters of Jan Karon’s At Home in Mitford. I had trouble motivating myself afterrwards, though. I just didn’t want to do anything. So, I made a list of the things I wanted to do today: Do the trash Get perlite. What’s perlite? It’s a soil additive; I’d heard of a guy who kept […]
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Skipped church this morning.
Saturday, June 2, 2001
Spent most of the day in the garden, and ended up treating my parents to dinner at a local Irish pub. Had a great time.
Friday, June 1, 2001
Our breakfast turned into an all-day trip to the mall. We just shopped and wandered around, eating ice cream cones and buying lots of little things. It was a great way to spin down from Thursday’s anxiety.