Well yesterday night turned out very well, as I got a chance to hang with Sarah for a bit. Then I met up with Rachel and Arizona (Arida?) at Brasil’s for some liquid refreshment. They had italian sodas, I had hot chocolate. Then we rented 40 Days 40 Nights from Blockbuster which we watched in Rachel’s dorm. It was a hoot, like I remembered. It’s also need because the main character is named Matt, is Catholic, and does web design! What are the chances?

The night called for some food again, so off to IHOP it was. You see the most interesting characters at IHOP when the clubs are getting out, especially the one on 59.

After that it was back to the dorm for a Chris Rock song, which was quite funny. Rachel also showed me local file-sharing that she uses at Rice which is quite nice. It makes sense that those connections would be much faster than anything going over the internet would be. The other cool thing that Rachel had was a XM radio in her car. I don’t know if I’m crazy about the $10 a month price tag, but some of the stations were very cool. What’s funny though is that we ended up listening to a CD anyway :). Finally we watched the Kevin Smith classic Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which was also as funny as I remembered it.

The Houston Palm Users Group meeting went very well, with Chris giving an interesting presentation on networking using your Palm, which I enjoyed. Afterwords I drifted over to the Web Tech SIG where they had food, and I ended up winning Microsoft Visual Interdev 6, and a Microsoft t-shirt, and a “security pack.” Oh the irony!! Not going to Galveston tonight like planned, but we’ll see what happens. Tonight actually might be a great opportunity to catch up on some work.

I’ve been basically totally preoccupied the past week, so I have a ton of catching up to do online. Most importantly Friday was Elaine’s birthday! Go send her some birthday love if you haven’t already. While your at it Kymberlie sounds like she had a wonderful anniversary, and that’s wonderful to hear. I finally got my blogroll working again, and took the opportunity to add some links that have been missing for a while. Zeldman has had more good writing lately then I can keep up with. So much content, so little time! Follow every link on his site. The Houston Wireless list has had some goings-on lately, and it should be interesting to see how things pan out. Joe Clark’s Slashdot interview is the longest I’ve seen yet, probably about 54k of text. That guy never ceases to amaze me.

People are coming into town from all over, and I am free as a bird till January, so this should be a lot of fun. Tonight I’m spending the night in Galveston, just because. Yay for Christmas break! It’s really my favorite time of the year. The music, the food, the weather—it’s just perfect. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays.

I know that as soon as I get used to this laptop I’m going to have to take it back. *sigh*

I just took my last final and turned in my last papers. I’m golden until January :). Now it’s time to party like it’s 1999!

My mother would be proud.

While I am a fan of Dante, I think he may have missed something in his portrayal of the netherworlds, and I just want to assure the guy who went out of his way to splash me with his car as I was waiting to cross the street that there is a special level of hell reserved for people like that. Geez.

I got my first final out of the way, only three more to go. I’m right now enjoying the broadband at a nice internet café called “Get Internet Café” or something like that. The salad was great, but I must get back to work now. Wish me luck!

I’ve been using the new Cross Ion pen for a few months now, and it has worked wonderfully. I think my favorite thing about it is the small size it goes to, which is easy on my pockets. That’s also why I think I’d like a Tungsten T. But apparently I just ran an entire load of clothes through the washer and dryer with this pen, unknowingly of course. I saw the pen first thing when I opened the dryer, and even though some of my favorite shirts were in there for some reason the first thing I did was see if the pen still worked! Even better yet, it did. On to the clothes: as far as I can tell there are no ink stains on anything! I’ll do a closer examination in the morning but things look good.