Monday, August 27, 2001
Heh. I’ve kinda slacked off when it comes to updating this diary. Oh well. Friday night, my Dad came home from oral surgery and spent the rest of the night in the den watching television. Since the den has the only working DVD player in the house, I had to wait until 11:00 p.m. to pop in the first NieA Under 7 disc. I had planned to only watch the first episode, but ended up […]
Friday, August 24, 2001
I feel so content now. I just bought the first DVD of NieA Under 7. I’ve literally been waiting years for this moment, starting when I first saw choppy RealVideo streams of the middle few episodes a few years ago. It’s taken so long, and now it’s finally here. More updates later; I have to head to the gym. Things are going well for me; Calliope is progressing, Max is […]
Thursday, August 23, 2001
…And I ended up working a 15-hour day yesterday, getting home at 12:45 a.m. There’s just so much to do.
Wednesday, August 22, 2001
I did not write a diary entry yesterday, because here’s what I did yesterday: Went to work Came home from work Mowed the lawn Went to bed Yep, I went to bed at 8:45 p.m. last night. I’ve been staying up late far too often recently, so it was time for me to recharge. I woke up around 6:30 a.m. this morning; I’d rather have slept through […]
Monday, August 20, 2001
Finally! Here are some photos of the Putt-Putt hole I assembled at work two weeks ago: I had a lovely conversation with Saalon tonight, where we talked about his short film and my animated project, plus anime and open source and all sorts of other things. Actually, it was lovely except for our opening discussion, in which we argued the philosophy and utility of open source, and I turned snippish and prickly. I have the nasty […]
Sunday, August 19, 2001
Upon the windy hills, in many a field, The honey-bees hum slow, above the clover,Gleaning the latest sweets its blooms may yield, And, knowing that their harvest-time is over,Sing, half a lullaby and half a knell, “Farewell, sweet Summer, Honey-laden Summer, Sweet, farewell!”— George Arnold (1834–1865), “Farewell to Summer”, lines 9–16 Another week without a visit to church. I had planned to go […]
Saturday, August 18, 2001
Ahhhhh. I’m finally on broadband. A Linksys router After a trip to McLean Bible Church to teach Redemption (nobody showed up), I swung by CompUSA, where I bought a Linksys 4-port router (plus an Envision 15″ LCD monitor). After an hour spent fixing some things at Intersect, I came home and spent the afternoon setting up the router. Now, all of my machines are using the cable modem connection, even Pendragon running BeOS. It’s […]
Friday, August 17, 2001
I finally had Road Runner cable modem access installed at home today. Surprisingly, the installation went as smoothly as could be expected, though the technician could only install it on Tramp. He also insisted that we could only use Internet Explorer and Outlook Express with the Road Runner installation. No other application on the planet would be compatible. Sure, uh-huh. Right now I’m using the cable modem […]
Thursday, August 16, 2001
Whew. Just completed a 12-hour day at work. Not fun, though I’m satisfied. I finished the work that I wanted to finish. And when you combine that with a small amount of sleep last night, I’m dead tired. Will probably limit myself to e-mails before crashing into bed. Some cool anime news lately, though nothing amazing. Some American distributor or other has picked up the rights to the new […]
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
It’s turning into quite a week. I’ve never been busier at work, and in fact I’m sitting here at my desk at 7:30 p.m., working on tutorials. We have a ton of stuff to do, and not much time. As a result, I don’t have much to talk about. I played some of Nobilis last night, which was fun, though the plot isn’t progressing very quickly. I got an order of Redemption cards yesterday, though, and spent about […]