it's yellow!

(both the book and the tent)

i passed out last night watching the first episode of gilligan's island. i'm going to watch another couple and then be able to say that i know what's being referring to.

the first thing i should have done this morning was go to the post office. instead, i tortured myself for the longest time until i got my pc to acknowledge my pda's existence, and then discovered that my pda had decided it had had enough of trying to communicate with the pc.

all i want to do is get the driver onto the pda so that it can declare independence.

i've got too many things open on my desktop to restart the machine, so i'm giving up for now. the irony of buying a wireless card so as not to have to connect the two in the first place is not lost on me.

i have the new issue of wired, i own a copy of thursday, and my new international debit card has been activated. very cool. the only thing i'm waiting for at the moment is my bluetooth connector, and in another couple of days i'll hopefully be ordering the dvd's i'm bidding on. i've already been outbid on one of them - stargate sg-1 box set - i'm hoping that won't happen again. more than $1 for a dvd? pah.
[actually, it's $1 plus $7 shipping, but that's still cheaper than any of the other combinations]

i shopped and then returned to a confusing few moments while my mom and i talked over my switzerland travel arrangements - she eventually convinced me to chill :)

i met with lake for beer and coffee. while i waited for her i ran into the girl who was my study partner for the course c workshop (partner: one who observes the coding process and interrogates post-hoc). i see her once every couple of years, and it fascinates me every time that she's always happy to see me, and always immediately gets to moaning about all the troubles she has.

she makes me feel like an optimist. i am an optimist, but she makes me feel like one.

drinks were nice, although two of her friends joined and while we seem to get along, it was a bit awkward at first with each of them in turn. i bought hungarian cakes, then walked to meet with the mongoose and take the aforementioned cakes to his parents' for lunch.

lunch was really nice, seeing them all was great. he's given me watchmen to read, and i'm already looking forward to seeing the movie!

on my way back home, i passed rabin square and saw that there was some sort of gathering with a huge tent. a man walked up to me and offered me a flyer... when i recognized the word "scientology" i shoved it back in his hands with a "HELL, no!". as i turned my back on him he asked me what i know about scientology, and my automatic response was "too much".

i'm shocked that we allow this sort of thing to take place under our noses. these guys are either nasty bastards taking advantage of the dopes in our society, or they're the dopes themselves...

i was going to go out tonight, but i was feeling tired so i decided to take a nap... and then got way too comfortable. i could go now, but i just felt like brushing my teeth, writing this and reading until i pass out again.