all that often any more; I just find other things to take up my time. But while I was down in Texas I actually read a book from start to finish. It was New Spring, the prequel to The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. So far (not including the prequel) there are 10 books in the series, and they’re all 600-700 pages. They only come out about every two years, and the next one is due this fall!
SOOO, when I got home I decided it was probably time to re-read the series, refresh the story in my head before tackling the new one this fall. It was only then that I realized my collection was lacking books two and three, as well as the newly released prequel that I just finished reading.
I decided that it was finally time to remedy that, so I went to Amazon.com and bought all three.
They’re shipping soon, and I know that when they get here and make my collection complete, I, in turn, will be complete.
and this was my result… Is it correct?
Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who’s extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get over if that trust is ever broken.
A week off. A week away. A week to sit around and read, stay up late, wake up late, and leave everything behind.
A week to wonder what things would be like if I had moved to Texas instead. It’s not so bad down here - BUT IT’S TEXAS. I don’t know if I’d ever really wanna make it my home. But alas, I chose a different path, if possibly not the wisest choice I’ve ever made. We all do that though. It’s part of life. It’s part of learning.
Let’s see. Since being here we’ve gone out and played pool, stayed home, and gone bowling. Camping is on the agenda, as well as a visit to Six Flags.
Best quote so far? Brett (Adam’s dad): “AAAAH! The fridge is being taken over by food! This is a problem; we need more space for beer!”
(sigh & smile) A much needed break indeed.
Finally, the old Chevy is gone.
Rather than sell the problem to someone else, I donated it to this charity. Hopefully it will be of use to them.
Sooo glad to have it gone. It had become one of those things on the “To Do” list that just never seemed to get done.
Tomorrow is delivery day. When I left work today things WERE NOT working. Tomorrow should be fun, though the stuff that’s not working belongs to someone else. I can’t test my stuff fully until their stuff is working.
My hard drive is clicking at me again.
My hard drive on my linux box is going. It started out by humming at me (NOT a good sign) every now and then, and in the past couple of days it’s moved onto head knocking. That means the drive is getting confused about where it’s reading (a sign of bad parts on the disk), loses its location on the drive platter, and then hits something it shouldn’t.
I knew it would go sooner or later. Now I just need to rsync it to my other drive before it dies so I don’t have to reinstall…
Uptime? Not great, but 68 days and counting and I won’t turn it off for fear spinning down may kill it.
It’s ok - according to Ecclesiastes everything is meaningless anyhow.
So I seem to go on “posting slumps,” where I really can’t come up with anything even remotely interesting to write about. And I’m in one of them right now, which is why I end up only posting about once a week. Maybe twice. About nothing.
Then other times I have everything to say, even though it’s still probably not all that interesting, and during those times I post more than once a day. Kinda weird.
But I guess that’s kinda just me. Take it or leave it, you know? I can change over time, but it won’t happen overnight. Someone somewhere can probably appreciate that.
9 days and counting.
No matter how many times I hear Dashboard Confessional songs, I’m still blown away by the genius of the lyrics. The way he puts the words together to create feelings, life, pictures of reality. Most of it is depressing stuff, but somehow that’s the music I like to listen to. It creates that feeling in the pit of my stomach that I can’t really describe, but that I’m sure everyone has felt at one point or another.
The Red Sox started out baseball season with a 5th consecutive season opener loss, this time against the Yankees. It was pathetic to watch. By the end of the game we all just wanted it to end. 9-2. None of the new guys really impressed me, and even the regulars weren’t playing their A-game. As someone in my office said this morning: 1 down, 161 to go.
Please just let these next two weeks pass! And then time can stop.
…mean that it’s always wet. And the weekend coming up is supposed to be a prime example of that (as was this past Monday). I watched the weather report on the news this morning, and it said we’re supposed to get 2-3 inches of rain this weekend. That’s a lot of water.
The thing is, it’s not all that much when you think about the storms we used to get in Cameroon. In those storms, it would sometimes drop an inch in half an hour. Now those were storms.
This weekend is bound to be a good one though, despite the rain. Why, you may ask? Well, first of all, the time is changing tomorrow night. That means one more hour of daylight! Woohoo! Then on Sunday, baseball starts. Red Sox vs. Yankees in Yankee Stadium. Might as well start the season off with a stressful game, right? It’s at 8:05 PM, and my guess is we’ll have people over to join in the festivities.
Ok. Enough blabbering. I got my motorcycle permit yesterday.