May 14, 1999. Friday
To paraphrase, "I must be an idiot." Actually that's a direct quote. But it seems fitting, seeing as how I was sooooo tired yesterday afternoon, and I stayed up till almost 1am last night even though I had to be in at 7am today. So naturally, I'm quite exhausted. I was trying to get my aunt's scanner working, both to just lend a helping hand and for my own slefish reasons. I don't know exactly what I did, but I got it working. The computer wouldn't recognize the scanner and kept freezing up. Plus, when I tried to sign on to AOL, it kept disconnecting. And there's this horrible thing now with Windows 98 I think, where you can press the on/off button on the computer, and the computer doesn't shut off. It's all ver "HAL"ish. So after I carefully debated all my options and put my comupter skills to the test, I furrowed my brow and decided to just unplug the computer from the wall. The computer restarted, scanner and all. Hooray for me. My computer repair skills always seem to work. When the monitor here at work acts up, I usually just give the computer a swift kick, which works wonderfully. My methods usually work, and I think they're Y2k compatible.So I managed to scan a few pictures of the HMS Ballsac and her crew. I don't know why, but Photoshop wouldn't let me save them a .jpgs, so I had to leave them in .psd form, which made them all about 10 megs. So i won't be making a page of pictures anytime soon. But fear not, I uploaded the pics already, and you can see four of them. The first is a picture of Nora in Jed's apartment sitting in the Paradise Lagoon kiddie pool (the "sac) with the balls (the "balls"). The second is a picture of Jed and me decked out in quasi pirate gear, hoop earings for him and an eye-patch for me. The third picture is of the crew of the HMS BallSac. I held the rank of Commander, while Rodzilla was the Seaman (hee-hee), Nora the Kaiser (being of the Master Race), and Jed a Leftenant. I'm not sure how you spell that, but he like it better than Lieutenant. L-R: Nora, Rodzilla, Me, and Jed. Jed held the camera, which is why he's a little out of the picture. And lastly, the forth shot is after an epidemic of scurvy hit the BallSac. Since we packed only water and salted meats, we all suffered viatmin C deficiencies. I was the first to fall ill, and it appears in the picture that they are about to either push me overboard or eat me for food. You decide.
I'll fix 'em up next week when I'm at the computer that has Photoshop. Until then, then.I received quite a bit of email yesterday in regards to my page. Well, not that much, but more than I anticipated, meaning I got some email. One was from a fellow who I presumably don't know, from the west coast I believe. Although I wouldn't be too surprised it it was actually on Richard Vance Ely, or Bitchard. But the person said he got here from my Internet Trash mirror site, and I only really set that up yesterday. Well, another link has been up for a month, but I doubt anyone who knows me woulda seen that anyway. Nora was also a little upset with some stuff I wrote, and that I put her picture back on the nouns page in the hopes that she wouldn't notice. Clever girl... And I had to get her permission to use the BallSac pictures too. Anyway, now I gotta go back and re-word a few things. Oh well.
Right now I'm trying to get tickets to Star Wars for next Sunday, and Pavement for June 19th. I hope I can find someone to go with me. Matt said he'd go, so let's hope so. I really want to see Built to Spill on Monday, but that's looking doubtful. I really don't want to run around downtown on 14th St. with no idea of where I'm really going. If the Metro ran past midnght, I might go. But it doesn't and I don't wanna drive around strange and hostile neighborhoods. I'll just save up for Pavement I guess.
So I'm going down to Lexington after work today. Should be fun. Rodzilla has some plans this evening though. That kinda sucks, but I'll deal. It's the weekend of the Buffalo Creek music festival at Washington and Lee. It's probably one of the best weekends of the year. Maybe the best. It's a lot of fun. I always enjoyed school-wide functions. It's not really a school wide function, but everyone goes and there's not much else going on. It's at this rented out pavillion and field called Zollman's in the middle of nowhere, about 5 miles outside of Lexington. Last year Matt and I were going to innertube about 5-10 miles on the river down to Buffalo Creek, but at one point about 5 minutes into the trip, we had to get out and walk around a low cement bridge, and he was bouncing his tube on the road and popped it. What a dick. So i had to go the rest of the way with these guys that I didn't know too well and it kinda dampened the day. It was still fun though. I'd really, really like to sail into Zollman's in the HMS BallSac this weekend. But I think the water is a little too low. It's doubtful the balls would stay in the sac. Losta rocks you know. This event is probably the only time Zollman's was ever fun. The school has other events out there, but it usually sucks. But a lot of people camp out in the field for this, and there tons of fires going and people all over. Sometimes when i walk around there at night a little fucked up, it seems like some sort of post-apocolyptic refugee camp. All these random bonfires, noisy people, walking around aimlessly. It's sorta scary. But very amusing at the same time. A few years ago when i was with there with James , i had the most amusing walk I've ever taken. Everyone looked completely ridiculous to me, and I James kept making faux romantic salutations to everygirl we passed. They've become some of our most common catch-phrases. In a low, Barry White-esque voice, he hit the girls with a salvo of "Helloooo...ladies....Helloo." it's really tough to try to explain it in words, so I'll stop trying. But trust me, even now when I think about it, it's hilarious. Probably because of the type of people he was addressing. But as I said, too tough to explain.
So anyway, I'm looking forward to going to Lexington. This will be my last trip there before I go down for graduation. Of course, that's only two weeks away. James is humoring notions of skipping a trip to Greece to go to Lexington. he think's it'd be more fun. Personally, I've never been to Greece so I can't really say, but I think it'll be really fun in Lexington. matt will be there too. And seeing Jed graduate is a big enough event that one has to see it to believe it. I mean, it'll only happen once. Greece has been there for millenia- it's not going anywhere. And it's not like he's never been there before. Anyway, I'm gonna go get those tickets now.
By the way, the Onion has come through for me again. Truly witty satire is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. It doesn't get much better than this.
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