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October 18, 2003

Odd, very odd indeed. It seems that every time that I check my mail in the last couple of days, I keep getting old notifications of website entries. I just checked my mail now and I got the one that was sent out on Tuesday, believe it or not. So if you get duplicate entry notifications, I apologize, but I believe that this is the doing of my nefarious Internet provider, Comcast, and its mail server run by the Marx brothers. That’s the only explanation that I have to explain it, but I have switched my own personal mail server to another service so that my personal email doesn’t get…ahem…misplaced or delivered late, but I don’t think that there’s anything I can do about the mail coming from to website.

Which brings me to subject #2. I have this constant fear that my site keeps sending out spam to people. Not email spam like ads for porn sites and free Viagra prescriptions, but spam of my notifications since I’ve been writing so many entries as of late. I’m sure that at least some of you think “Man, another entry at his website?” when you see those emails in your inbox, but maybe you’re too shy to email me to get off the notification list.

Well that’s all fixed now. I finally added an automatic unsubscribe function, so if you want to get off the notification list, you can simply check the “unsubscribe” button, put your email address in the box, and you’re off. Handy, huh? Mostly it was to reduce the amount of overseeing I had to do on the site, just one less thing that I would have to do myself. Plus it’s kind of cool. Yeah, I’m easily amused.

I actually started this entry on Saturday, saved it, and just never went back to it. I got sidetracked on a few different things, and then by then time I was done with the evening, it was 11:30 and I wanted more to just call it a night. I watched game 1 of the World Series yesterday, but I get the feeling that the majority of the people who watched the league championships aren’t watching the World Series. I think that it just turned out to not be as exciting as people had hoped, but frankly, I think it’s pretty exciting. I’m rooting for the Marlins to beat the Yankees in five games, and their win–the first win for an away team in the first game of the World Series since 1979, according to the commentators–showed the Yankees they mean business.

But on a lighter note, I enjoyed watching the beginning of the game and got a good laugh out of the player introductions. Since the game was being held at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, naturally the vast majority of the fans in the stands wore the classic blue and white colors. As the Florida Marlins were being introduced, someone had the foresight to hunt down a copy of the “Imperial March” theme from The Empire Strikes Back that was always played in the Star Wars movies when Darth Vadar would show up. Personally, I would feel kind of cool being introduced and having that music play in the background. I think it would make me feel pretty badass, you know? When the Bronx Bombers came out as they were being introduced, the music from the end of Star Wars was played, from the scene when Princess Leia awards the medals to Luke and Han right before the credits. Good thought to do the music that way, I applaud anyone who snickered at the reference like I did when I heard it, but frankly, I’ll take the bad guys music. Those strings just sound so much cooler than the horns.

To go with game 1, I bought some hot dogs and buns, chips, salsa, and a couple of boxes of Cracker Jacks. I already had the beer to go with it, naturally. As I sat down to eat, however, I thought to myself how decidedly untraditional my meal was, though. There I was, watching game 1 of the World Series at home with hot dogs, BBQ potato chips, and beer, but I was eating fat free Ballpark franks, baked Lays BBQ potato chips, and beer from a foreign country. Times they are a changin’, I guess. At least it wasn’t Bud Light. I saw about a half-dozen commercials for it during the game, and I still don’t see how anyone can drink that swill. I guess I’ll just never see eye-to-eye with most of America.

My Mom and I finished Frank Herbert’s Dune last night, which then of course made me want to start it over and watch it again like I always feel at the end. I just feel this need to go back to the beginning every time I finish it, but thankfully I’ve never done it. Nearly five hours of Dune at a time is more than enough for me. I’ve watched TV shows for multiple hours in one day (I think that both “Law & Order” and “La Femme Nikita” take the cake on that one, having watched all-day marathons in the past), but watching TV ALL DAY LONG just doesn’t suit me. And speaking of “La Femme NIkita”, I should probably get going watching my copy of season 1. I finally got the last of the CDs I ordered with my birthday money yesterday, getting my Venus Hum CD in the mail. I got my “Great Big Sea” CD a couple of days ago, and my “Blue Man Group” CD early in the week. Now I don’t have anything else to look forward to in the mail, dang it. Wait, wait, I stand correected–my sister bought my birthday present and she said I should be getting it next week. Huzzah!

I think that today is going to be another lazy Sunday. Just like my lazy Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays–need I go on? I’ll probably keep an eye on game 2 of the World Series as I do some job hunting in the classifieds, maybe get a haircut since it’s been about three months since my last one. When I used to keep my hair shorter, I would get my hair cut every month, and any longer than that and my hair would get unmanageable. Of course, I also used to used gel, mousse, hairspray, and a hair dryer to style my hair, so I shouldn’t harken back too much. Now I go three, even four months between haircuts. I think earlier this year I waited *five* months between cuts. I was getting pretty shaggy. I have a picture of Dan somewhere when he hadn’t gotten his hair cut all summer and a good protion before that, so he had quite a ‘fro going. I’ll see if I can dig that up. The haircut place I used to go to by my Mom’s house over by Oak Hills brewpub pulled up shop and moved, and the other palce I went to is down in a strip mall area I hate driving to. My sister informed me that there’s a Perfect Look really close by that I didn’t know about, however, so I’ll have to pay them a visit.

Hmmm…nothing more on my mind, alas. Oh yes, to Paul, if you read this: yeah, the goatee does change my whole face. I was 22 when I grew it, and I still sort of had that “babyface” look to me, I felt, and people had been telling me for years that I should grow one…so I gave it a shot. I like the look, and it’s certainly a lot easier to take care of than shaving my whole face. Until later, then.

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