Checksum Arcanius

Woke up late – went to a short opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, then dropped the brother off at the Airport. Next, my dad and I exchanged my V60i phone for the T720, got the wireless internet working – only at 8kbps, however – and then returned home to have dinner with Scott and family, then to talk about the roadtrip. It pretty quickly turned into essentially 5 on 1, with his mom alone. We kept it civil, and I didn’t talk much, not completely unrelated occurences.

It looks like we’ll be leaving Monday morning, and Florida is out. :-/

Turkey day has come and gone. Got up at 8:20, did breakfast, then went down to Newport High for the annual Turkey Bowl. Returned home, cleaned my room, watched Cowboys loose to the Dolphins, then made mashed potatoes and had an incredible dinner dozed, and chatted. Fun day.

Yesterday, Amy wasn’t feeling well, so I ended up leading the girls to Larry’s house where they got to do drilling, riveting, bandsawing, chopsawing, and soldering. It went well.

Dialup speeds suck.

One thing that Polaris did for me was keep me on a healty earlier schedule. Sure I was late a lot, but never by more than 30 miuntes and usally just a few. Now I stay up consistently past 1 and don’t wake up until around noon. Not the best lifestyle.

Today, I went to church, then to the Sonics game at the Key Arena with the McIvor’s (I took Kellie’s spot due to her working at Starbucks). The game was fairly lackluster – it was 36-24 at the half. The Washington Wizards came back and led late in the game, but the Sonics got their act together and made the last 17 seconds pretty long and exciting – and in the end a win is a win.

The cell phones started working today at various times. I like mine. The coverage is pretty good – inside the house is spotty, but seems to work in my room. I dropped one call on Forest drive so far, but otherwise its been pretty crystal clear. Can’t wait to get the data adapter and ditch this modem (I’m on the modem right now; wireless internet isn’t cooperating right now.)

UW def. WSU – Not entirely happy about that, even though I am usally a Husky fan – I wanted another PAC-10 team in the BCS.
USC def. UCLA – A good result
Oklahoma Rolls – For some reasons I don’t have a problem with this like I do with Miami when they’re #1
Utah def. BYU – 3-0 score. How ridiculous is that? Coach Crowton sure took a nice franchise and ran it into the ground pretty well after a strong first year. This game breaks a 28-year home non-shutout streak.

Slept in Way late – 1:00. Flew plane, broke it again. Went shopping for cell phones – after hours, and a trip to Costco, ended up getting Cingular family plan with four phones from this dude (hopefully Ben doesn’t read my blog often, its a surprise for him) with a national plan. Cingular has good national coverage (though not the best), good rates (though not the best), rollover (the best), and we are told, the best coverage in Washington, although we will find out how true that is tomorrow when the phones come online. I’m getting a data cable so I can use my phone as a modem, using just plan minutes (I’ll use the night and weekends for this) to update this blog while I’m on the road.

So I’m set for my road trip. And Florida had better be on the itenerary.

I now sleep from about 5-10 pm, then from 5-6 am… not very good, but it will all be over soon. Maybe, Scott says, we won’t be going as far as Florida. Whatever, dood.

I left my house this morning to find Falling Snow. Looking toward My Snowy Truck, I realized that this snow was for real. I scraped the snow off the windshild with a piece of cardboard, jumped in, and headed out. Instead of my normal route, I took the less-scary-during-snowstorms-route which isn’t as steep or curvaceous. This caused a delay (as did the other cars traveling carefully through the snow), so by the time I made it to I-90 I was already Waiting in Traffic. Normally, I get to I-90 just before the metering turns on. I made it to work 15 minutes late, which was surpirsingly early actually considering. Michael didn’t say anything, although I think he wanted to. Its good that he didn’t because I had pictures.

At work today, there was a table of 13 ladies that all came wearing red hats to celebrate one of the ladies’ 60th birthday parties. They reminded me of the logo of Redhat Linux, because I am a nerd. They left This Mess, that I quickly transferred onto this tray. I then carried that tray to the dishpit (which I just noticed is remarkably similar to “dipshit” – interesting), which led to This Reaction from Jessi.

The speakers on my laptop, while lacking severly in the low range, are surprisingly good for their compactness.

I’m listening to music while putting away dishes; thus the abnormally long list (see above) [music and mood didn’t, unfortunately, get transfered in the move from Greymatter to WordPress].

I just blended (see Enemy of the State to better understand blending).

My parents just got home; I’m glad they are well.

Because I am too lazy right now, I shall cut and paste:

[21:40:34] Me: well, I’ve never done that to a girl either, but I was thinking more generally
[21:40:53] Her: oh okay
[21:42:28] Me: and when I said “so now what” I was actually thinking about chaning the subject
[21:42:41] Me: unless of course you want to continue
[21:42:53] Her: oh okay
[21:43:14] Her: no that’s fine talking about it jsut upsets me
[21:43:32] Me: exactly, so now we will talk about something else
[21:43:46] Me: like how dumb I am for going to bed at 7 this morning
[21:43:49] Her: yeah
[21:43:50] Her: hahahaha
[21:43:51] Her: why?
[21:43:58] Me: I was watching movies
[21:44:17] Me: well, first off i got home really late
[21:44:29] Me: because I agreed to pick up a shift at blockbuster
[21:44:51] Me: the guy is gonna give me another $20 on top of my regular pay
[21:45:01] Me: and then I wasn’t tired
[21:45:05] Her: well that’s good
[21:45:09] Me: because I had stayed up late the previous night
[21:45:26] Me: and so I started wathcing Basic
[21:45:38] Me: then I started watching terminator, even though I know I shouldn’t have
[21:45:47] Me: I fell asleep during terminator
[21:45:58] Me: just finished it now
[21:46:02] Her: good job
[21:46:12] Me: so then I woke up at noon
[21:46:36] Me: and it turns out I had been (re)scheduled at 11 as opposed to 1 – so I was late to work
[21:46:44] Her: oh oops
[21:46:55] Me: no big though, becuase the schedule changed, the mod didn’t care, he was just glad I showed up at all
[21:47:06] Me: and then the person who was supposed to relieve me never showed
[21:47:26] Me: and I got to stay till 9 (I was supposed to be off at 6) until another replacement could be found
[21:50:15] Me: so now I have a headahce from lack of sleep, I’m still getting my laundry done
[21:50:19] Her: oh
[21:50:20] Me: and… um yeah
[21:50:39] Me: and I’m hungry
[21:50:45] Me: so I’m going to go get something to eat
[21:50:48] Her: i’ll talk to ya later!
[21:50:48] Me: and do dishes
[21:50:52] Me: I have a laptop
[21:51:00] Me: haha I’ll carry it down with me
[21:51:06] Me: and wireless network
[21:51:08] Me: woohoo
[21:51:11] Her: aren’t you cool
[21:52:05] Me: I often think that about myself