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07:59:54 Thursday June 03 2004
So update:
Saturday I went down to hanover.edu to watch my April
graduate. While we were all very proud of April the graduation was the
most amateur, minor league shit I have seen in a long time. They had
only a student speaker, and her speech was only vaguely coherent. The
good thing about the trip was that we were in the middle of cicada
country during this year's massive invasion. They were awesome. You
could look up through the trees and see hundreds of them flying hither
and thither.
Sunday I had the pleasure of hanging out with Mr Kelsey. He was back
in Muncie to help his mother move out. We walked and talked for hours
before the big storm system moved in. Then we went inside and watched
some Bullshit and played some Monkey Ball. It is always good to hang
out with Kelsey because while talking with him big questions seem so
much more manageable.
This evening I played some Eternal Darkness before I was summoned over
to Terry's place. There was some drinking with Lita and Ally. Things
got out of hand and Lita ended up spending a portion of her evening in
the ER. Good times were had by all.
03:56:41 Friday June 04 2004
Today was reserved for recuperating. Unfortunately I missed a meeting
with Katy as a result. I completely spaced it. It looks like the
damage from last night is very minimal. Tomorrow: Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban.
01:20:32 Wednesday June 09 2004
I am back on a more human schedule. On Monday I worked out most of the
details concerning what I will be working on for Dr. Comer's group
this summer. I also helped Katy squash a bunch of bugs, and was
generally productive.
Today I awoke with a terrible throbing pain above my right eye. I met
with Katy and crew. Things appear to be moving along nicely. Chris is
back. (Yay! Welcome back Chris!) I nearly registered for classes
today, but running all over campus collecting signatures
prevented me from finishing the form before the grad office
closed.
This evening Terry, Lita, Yost, and Lehmann came over. We ate at the
South Street Smokehouse(?). Then we came back and played WarrioWare,
and Poker. Afterwards we watched the good half of Full Metal
Jacket. I think this get together occurred primarily to prove that
everyone was still cool with everyone else after recent events. All is
well.
06:14:05 Saturday June 12 2004
This three log entries a week shit needs to stop. Things just seem to
move so slowly in the summer that there isn't much to write
about. That and in the summer I am usually up until I can't hold my
eyes open which means I am less likely to write before I sleep. Enough
excuses. I will do more with my sumer and write more log entries as a
result.
The other night I threw together a couple of handy perl scripts. The
first creates html files linking together all {jpg,gif,png} files in a
directory. It is useful in my archiving of comics on calypso. This way
I can download old strips from a comic in batch and quickly run
through them on calypso. The second script removes high ASCII
characters from filenames. I found that I could not backup some of the
mp3s on the server to the fat32 filesystem on my removable hard drive
because the filenames contained high ASCII. I took the time to make
the script smart as well so it converts things appropriately: 'ü'
becomes 'u', 'é' becomes 'e', and so on.
Matt's grandfather died this evening. Condolences go to:
Fran Plummer
1714 Oakwood Drive
Anderson, IN 46011
03:59:01 Tuesday June 15 2004
I am back on a more human schedule. Castor came up yesterday. I ran
Ravenloft. I killed John's character... er... John killed John's
character. Whatever.
My favorite boss (I have many in ITaP/RCS) died over the weekend. He
was an incredibly smart, funny, and driven guy. He will be sorely
missed. Rest in peace David Moffett.
Today I ran down to Tipton to help my aunt fix a minor computer
issue. The drive gave me time to contemplate and I picked up a
strange melancholy as I did so. I learned last week that Castor will
be moving to upstate New York in August. I also learned yesterday that
Paul will be moving to Florida in mid-to-late July.
Now anyone who knows me will be inclined to believe that with all the
changes recently I have fallen back into my older behavior patterns of
fearing change. There is something to that. I must concede that while
I have moved on I still feel those fears deep in the pit of my
stomach. I like to think that I recognize them now and treat them as
what they are.
I have come to something of a conclusion. I don't believe this
melancholy is just old fears resurfacing. I have this odd feeling of
being completely untethered. When I leave there will be no place to
return to. My friends will be spread to the four winds. The center
does not hold. You can never go home again. Not because the
place no longer exists, but because everything about you and
everything about the place will have changed by the time you
return. [sorry, end of stupid angsty/introspective rant]
19:05:42 Wednesday June 16 2004
Bad news: my tooth is more dead than alive. "Mehr Tod als Leben" as
the germans say. I have about a millimeter of dentin between the
outside world and my precious soft gooey nerve endings. Mystery du
jour: Does anyone know why teeth have nerve endings? Bones don't have
nerve endings.
Good news: I get to become a cyborg!!!
03:09:28 Monday June 21 2004
Earlier this week (on Wednesday) I attended David Moffett's
funeral. It was a very enlightening experience. I learned a
great deal about a man that I knew for less than a year before he
became ill. There were a number of touching eulogies given as well as
couple that were absolutely hysterical. David Moffett was a funny,
weird, brilliant, and hard working man. He hired and encouraged me at
ITaP. He will be sorely missed.
Saturday I went to Tipton to attend my cousin Kelli's wedding. The
lovely and talented Cara joined me as a guest. The ceremony was
outdoors in the park. It was very well executed even if it was a bit
traditional. Even Cara commented. "She has to obey and he
doesn't?"
At the reception we danced quite a bit. It was rather odd dancing with
my sisters on the floor, but I persevered. My entire family was
dazzled by Cara, and rightly so. What they don't understand is that it
is not to be. Not for want of effort on my part. I have brought it up
twice and been shot down each time. C'est la vie.
I had the pleasure of spending this father's day with my father. We
had lunch together as a family, did some shopping, and visited my
grandfather. Later in the evening the females all departed and my
father and I sat around and had a few drinks. We talked about
potential jobs, the army, politics, and my mother's choice to become a
minister. I understand his position a great deal better now. He makes
some excellent points about his underlying philosophy of marriage. He
is a good man and I am ever so lucky to have him as my father.
02:06:12 Friday June 25 2004
Tuesday was a good day. I got a lot accomplished. I got my accounts
started for my 590. I started working towards getting my classes
reinstated. (Side note: they had been canceled due to my tardiness in
paying my summer tuition). I talked with Ethan about the basic
philosophy underlying the new Xinu network stack. I went to the
writing lab and had them critique my resume.
That evening I ran my
Ravenloft game. It didn't go off as I had planned. I had hoped that
this would be the game where the characters finally figured out what a
domain lord is. Unfortunately they didn't do any deep digging. I
simply couldn't in good conscience allow them to defeat a domain lord
(even a minor one) without doing their homework.
Wednesday was almost a complete waste. I slept in too late after the
Ravenloft game. I rearranged some mp3s to make the collection more
sane and re-watched a bunch of movies.
Today was also quite productive. I accidentally slept through my dental
appointment this morning. I did call them and reschedule. Since I was
awake I got up and got things done. I paid some bills. I got my
classes reinstated. I started sprucing up my resume and I even got a lot
accomplished at work.
There is an odd sense of finality concerning my dental appointment
tomorrow. I have this tooth in my head. It has been there for about 15
years and tomorrow it will be gone. It causes me enough pain that I
will be happy to see it go, but it feels strange to let go of a piece of
yourself no matter how rotten.
02:03:27 Saturday June 26 2004
Old Tyme Dentistry Is Alive And
Well
My visit to Doctor Mohler this morning was better than I expected. I
discovered that I am not as sensitive to lidocaine as I am to many
other drugs. They had to give me fully twice the usual
injection. After that all was well. Doctor Mohler pressed on the tooth
a few times to make sure I was good and numb. Then he pulled out the
pliers. This momentarily surprised me since I expected that modern
dentistry involved cutting the tooth out. However my momentary panic
was quickly relieved by the look in doctor Mohler's eye. I could tell
that he was bored. He had done this innumerable times. He pulled with
a firm, steadily increasing pressure. I could see the muscles in his
aging arm tighten. It did not come out immediately, he gently
increased the pressure for a minute or so. I heard a cracking sound as
one of the roots pulled free.
An instant later he was dropping it into a bio-hazard bag. It came out
clean and in one piece. There wasn't even any need to stitch the
socket. I have newfound respect for those skilled at tooth
extraction. It requires a great deal of force administered very
precisely. There are so many ways in which the procedure can go
wrong. I was quite lucky to have Doctor Mohler as my D.D.S.
Also, the earlier mystery is solved. Bones do have
nerves. This is why bone marrow transplants are so painful.
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