yay, only one of the monitors ddn't work right. And my friend Matt gave me a couple of good 19" monitors because they weren't being used and were taking up too much space. Now I have a surplus of monitors. Does anyone out there want to buy a monitor or 3? :)

I spent most of today at an auction at UVA. Tim Ena and Mike were there too, but I drove separately from them because I had a meeting to go to. I am doing a freelance job for someone in UVA's sports marketing dept. They're trying to raise money for a new basketball arena and I've been hired to help make some 3D animations of the new facilities to help sell suites to potential investors. I need to start working on it. For some reason I don't think it'll take too long, but if I'm wrong it would be better for me to find out now instead of later.

I talked on the phone to Myriam for about 35 minutes tonight.
"Forget about him," I said " you should go out with me."
"I'd love to," she replied, trying, unsuccessfully, to hide her excitement. "I thought you'd never ask."

Okay I didn't say that and so she couldn't reply that way... Not that she WOULD reply that way.

We ate lunch with Matt at a Thai restaurant in Charlottesville. I had... ummm... Pad .. no, I can't remember the name. It was egg noodles with meat and gravy. It was okay, but the noodles were slippery and therefore hard to eat.

Apiradee, if you happen to be reading this, yes this is similar to the email I sent you. I figured I'd just post it here as well. The email came first, I just wanted you to know that. :)

Well, Hurricane Isabella blew through here the other night. It wasn't very bad where I'm at even though it was projected to go right over us. Other parts of the country weren't so lucky. The power went off here for less than a minute. I have a friend in Charlottesville whose power was out for at least 6 hours. I have a sister in PA (around 5 hours North of here) who was still without power today (Saturday). She lives more out in the country, but still I would've expected them to be more lightly hit than us. We had more rain and they had more wind, I think.

yay, another super interesting glipse into my mind has been typed.

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Why do so many anime films/shows have such a strong theme of memory? I watched Cowboy Bebop the Movie tonight. The loss of memory seems to drive one of the characters and knowing what I know about the series Faye is missing memories and Spike is living a second life of sorts, but ultimately can't escape the first one. There's a movie called "A Wind Called Amnesia" or something like that. In that movie everyone on the planet has lost their memory. There's a TV series that's airing on the Cartoon Network name "Big O" in which the whole of civilization has lost its memory. I guess those are all the examples I can think of. It just seems odd that there are several examples of people trying to cope with life without personal history.

Hello again.

Kasey,
You asked me if I have any love interests right now... or if there were any ladies I'm intersested in or something to that effect. I don't think the question was even completely out of your mouth before something happened to interrupt the conversation. Well, the truth is I have no one that I'm absolutely smitten with. There are a few (or more) women that I have an interest in. As far as I know none of them "like" me back. I wish I had a woman I could focus my affections on. I wish I had someone I could think about more than I think about myself. I never quite got the the whole dating thing, at least not on the practical level. I've been rejected enough to know I don't like it so I'm not very inclined to take a chance. I'd like to know if there's any interest from the girl before I try to be more than simple friends. Of course there are other issues to complicate matters as well. What kind of relationship do we have currently? What about distance? Are there other guys who are chasing her? I just don't feel like I know how to play the game.

whatever. shrug.

My sprained ankle still isn't back to normal yet. I have a job Fri night and Sat all day that will probably require me to be on my feet the whole time. Hopefully it'll be better by then and if not, then I hope I don't make it worse. The last weekend in Sept brings the possibility of working a football game, but that'll require a lot of walking, carrying stuff, etc. Hopefully I'll be all healed up by then.

The DVD for The Gathering (http://www.reelchristian.com) is nearly complete. There's just one little video clip that needs to be replaced and we'll be ready to test. I need to get closed captions working and that may be problematic. The other thing that worries me is how to get it to the duplicators with all the copy protection in tact. I'm hopeful that it'll be done by the end of the week. The sooner the better.

The DVD for Final Exit (same website) is the next little project. The design is done and the menus are mostly done. I still need to pick out the chapters and insert the pictures into the chapter menu. I believe I have everything I need to finish that project too (except the closed captions file). I want to have that done by the end of the month (actually I'd like to have it done by the middle of the month.

I'm waiting on a couple of fairly large checks (anything over $500 is fairly large) to come my way. I did the work and the invoices have been submitted. I need to pay down some debt and I'd like to purchase some computer equipment/software. I don't know what I'll do.

I'm waiting on some paper work to go through for a big graphics job I've been hired to do. I'm hoping to get some of the money up front, although I'm afraid I'll spend it poorly.

If I put nearly all of my income into debt reduction I could possibly have it all paid off by the end of the year. OTOH I could easily spend $4000 on video/computer equipment. That doesn't prepare me for taxes neither.

Oh yeah, I should start thinking about getting a new(er) car and possibly a house.

yippee. Now you know more about my financial situation.

I'm bored so I'm typing something here.

Nope, that didn't work.... I'm still bored.

good evening.
It's been a while since I've written anything here.
My jaw is back to normal... on its own. and my elbow-nerve thing is close enough to normal that it doesn't annoy me. I did go to the doctor and talk to him about it. He checked it out somewhat and told me it was probably bruised. His advice was to take a couple of tablets of Aleve (anti inflamatory) twice a day. I don't know how much it helped but I did it until I ran out of pills. That means I did that for around 13 days.

Last Sunday I went water skiing. I wasn't very successful. It's been said that it takes most people around 5 attempts before they get up. I only attempted it 4 times. I was somewhat surprised I wasn't successful. I expected to do better. I'm out of shape so it was kind of tiring and somehow along the way I hurt my ankle. It doesn't hurt often and the pain is fairly mild. It's been about three days and I can still feel that something isn't right. Also, my ankle is swollen and there is a bruise there now. I don't know if it's some kind of sprain or a chipped bone or something. It doesn't bother me too much. I guess it's a good thing that I didn't go on with trying to water ski. Maybe it'd be worse.

Kara, do you have a boyfriend?

ah well, good night
Dana