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So I realize I haven’t blogged in a while … and I’m not going to write a very interesting one right now. As I type, I’m sitting in a computer lab, jacked in to a stolen ethernet connection. (Technically, it’s not stolen … I just have to disconnect a terminal to get to it)

My schedule today is: Conflict and Conflict Resolution, lunch, work, AS interviews, Accounting, Gym, Lisa’s. Full day.

Anyway, I’m waiting for Mike to get done at the gym and meet me at Starbucks before class. I’m also waiting for Sunspot, the student services webserver, to process my request for a copy of my schedule … need it for insurance purposes, but the webserver insists that it’s not between the hours of 7 am and 11 pm Monday thru Friday. It’s 8:45 am on Tuesday. Go figure.

So the internet is slow here tonight, probably more freshmen and their peer-to-peer porn sharing or something. There was this one guy that was singlehandedly running the Tepayac switch up to 98% capacity. I’m sure he was just doing homework and research.

Anyway, Lisa and Mike and I went out to Cabrillo National Monument (Point Loma) to watch the sunset this evening, but the clouds blocked our view. It was still pretty neat, and we got the park ranger to take our picture. I think it’s the first picture I have of the three of us. It’s not a very good picture, since none of us are all that photogenic, but it’s a decent one.

Walking around up there, we came across a bunch of little critters and other vermin. There was a little critter that looked kind of familiar, and when I tried to explain what it looked like, the first word that came to mind was ‘chimichanga’. I suppose I was looking for ‘chinchilla’, but I was kind of hungry and I’m a little out of it from my super-advil stuff. After staring at it, taking its picture, and otherwise harassing it, Mike chimed in with his observation that the little thing had radar. He meant that its ears turned, but it’s funnier to think of the thing having radar. So there are chimichangas with radar at Cabrillo National Monument. You should go see them.

I haven’t figured out why, but that song Hummingbirds by Venus Hum is still neat. Sure, they mix on Powerbooks and all that fun stuff, but the song is still catchy to me.

I’m sort of wondering what monkeybats write some of the error messages these days. iChat has one that says “Cannot send file: an error occurred.” Why not just put up a thing that says “yeah, couldn’t do it, something came up”? At least then your computer would be honest with you when it was blowing you off for something more interesting. I’m also a little vexed that my Powerbook only seems to like reading half of my external hard drive. This could present a problem. Not that I actually *use* 120GB of archived music albums… it’s really more of the principle of the thing.

Back by popular demand — my blog. Haven’t been online for a while; one of the other OSAP students decided he’d come ‘fix’ our computer (it was working fine) and I just got the cable modem working again. TCP/IP troubleshooting without the win98 CD is reeeally fun.

Anyway, since I’m ill and because I really don’t feel like typing that much, here’s a condensed version of what’s been up –

I’m not sure when I last blogged, but I spent the new year transition at the Eagle and Child pub, where JRR Tolkien and C. S. Lewis and a bunch of their friends would often gather. I’m sure they went other places too, but this place has got the claim.

Spent new year’s day at home, sleeping. The rest was welcome.

Resumed lectures on the 2nd. We took a boat trip down the river Isis, a tributary to the Thames. I believe this is when I got sick. After the boat ride, we went to the Head of the River pub and then moseyed over to the Purple Turtle, the Oxford Union Society pub. It was loud and had a sticky floor. They were playing 90’s rock hits. I’m told this is the image they try to portray.

The 3rd was more lecture.

On the 4th, we went to Portsmouth and Winchester. We toured HMS Victory, Lord Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar. In Winchester, we visited the cathedral. It was beautiful.

The 5th was the first day at New College. I wish my college looked like that.

And today, I skipped the London trip because I’m trying to recover from whatever it is that I came down with.

I think that’s about it. Email me sometime.