Do my friends know me, or what?

September 22, 2003

Yesterday morning as I lay in bed over at my Dad’s house, I heard the unmistakable sound of my phone ringing out in the other room where I’d left it charging the night before. I was still tired so I didn’t rush out of bed to get the phone, though. When I went and picked up my phone a few minutes later, I saw that my friend Ali from Beloit had called. When I listened to the message, I couldn’t help but bust out laughing, because the first thing she said was that she saw that Wesley Clark had joined the Presidential race and if he won, he’d be “President Clark,” and she felt slightly ominous about that. Wow, talk about great minds thinking alike. I wrote about that here on my site not a week ago, but then again, Ali is one of the people I watched “Babylon 5″ with from start to end, pretty much, so she’s as much in on the joke as I am. It’s stuff like that I miss about school. Well, the people there at least. Why don’t you read my website, eh Ali?

Yesterday my Dad and I split the other two bottles of beer that we bought at Whole Foods, both Belgian ales. I don’t remember the names of them, but one of them was brewed in an abbey. Now that’s pretty cool. Today when I went grocery shopping, I decided to see what Thriftway had in terms of interesting, exotic beers, so I bought a bottle of Czech lager, New Zealand ale, German ale, and “Arrogant Bastard Ale” from a California brewing company. That last one isn’t exactly foreign and exotic, but it has such a cool name, no?

I signed up to get a free gift from a company who was giving them away awhile back this summer, and I had completely forgotten about it until I got a notice saying they were out of stock but would be happy to send me alternates gifts instead. This was sort of taking advantage of the company’s system for giving out gifts to interested parties, but heck, if they’re giving them away, I’ll take ‘em. Honestly, I don’t even remember what the original gift was, but I ended up getting a free set of earbud headphones, a tiny optical mouse to go with a laptop, but best of all, a 64 MB drive that plugs into a USB port. That last one alone would cost me about $50 if I bought it in a store, so I got a pretty good set of gifts. The USB drive is great–it’s like a floppy drive in that it’s a little storage drive that can move between computers (you just plug it into a USB port on the computer and it shows up as a drive on the system), but it holds around 60 times as much as a floppy disk, and it’s MUCH faster. I already have a 32 MB model that I bought a year or so ago and a 16 MB one that I got as an appreciation gift when I left ITS at Beloit, but the 64 MB one is very nice to have. Unfortunately I have about 3 GB worth of data I need to move off my laptop right now, so a 64 MB drive won’t do me much good for that, but it’s an extremely handy thing to have.

Instead of jogging today (as it’s around 84 degrees out and I didn’t feel like running in the heat again), I went for a walk instead, going for around 4.3 miles. A nice change from jogging. Tonight I’m making the second to last box of Hamburger Helper that’s in the house using ground turkey instead, black beans and rice, and steamed broccoli. That’s another reason I didn’t want to go jogging, that I have some cooking to do tonight, and I’d have to wait until evening as it gets cool (and dark) to go jogging. That doesn’t sound appealing right now.

I got nothin’.

Itty bitty mouse!