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contents:

• Chronological stuff.
• meta: about weblogs in general.

2008-10-25: updated software on each the computers I use: ClamWin, Mozilla, Java, GIMP, TortoiseSVN, Unison, OpenOffice, ... also installed Shutterfly on Sarah's recommendation. (See software_david_uses.html )

2008-10-24: The fuse to the circuit that powers the kitchen lights, microwave, and garage lights blew out. I replaced it. (This place has actual fuses -- not circuit breakers).

2008-09-25: went to "Tulsa World Job Fair".

2008-08-16: Finished a consulting project with GSL.

2007-10-30: Rice family reunion.

2006-10-14: Rice family reunion.

2006-10-12: The $75 turned out to be a pretty good deal. That same Surfboard modem sitting on the shelf at a local retailer was $79 (not installed), and most of the other cable modems cost even more.

I ended up buying a Linksys BEFCMU10 v4 on clearance at Staples for $50. (It doesn't say "v4" on the package, but it does say "ver. 4" on the bottom of the modem). I plugged it all in, made one phone call to Cox to tell them the MAC address of the cable modem, and I am back online. (It appears that the cable modem only connects to a device with the MAC address of my PC ... my other PC won't connect when it is plugged in instead?) (My new modem *is* on the "Cox Compatible" list).

2006-10-11: (wed): The Cox Cable guy came out. He figured out that I couldn't access the Internet because of a problem with my modem (Toshiba PCX1100U). He recommended the Motorola Surfboard SB5120 cable modem. He said I could buy a new modem from anyone, or I could buy a new one from Cox for $75 installed (or $9/month installed).

The Cox guy seemed surprised when I told him my modem was working Monday. He implied that he thought that obsolete model wouldn't work with the new Cox system upgrades installed months ago. The "Information: Cox Compatible Cable Modems" list on http://cox.com/ (alas, it doesn't seem possible for me to make a direct link / deep link to that list) no longer lists that modem.

2006-08-26 Keith and Carlene Wallace 30th wedding anniversary at the Gastelum Home

2006-05-31: K. Stone at Key Technical called me to say that TRON-Tek.com wanted me to work for them.

2006-05-22: interview at TRON-Tek.com .

2006-05-04 Bruce from TCC recommended I call Mikel Janitz at Motorguide (in Tulsa).

2006-05-04: Barry Benton at the Roland Group 3851 S. 103 E. Ave. Tulsa OK saw my resume on CareerBuilder.com .

2006-04-22: Talked to Justin at Motorguide.

2006-04-22: talked to Horton about teaching physics.

2006-04-17: 122 / 76 mmHg; 77 bpm at store; 120 / 79 mmHg; 75 bpm at GC's house.

2006-04-09: ... went out to eat afterwards with Troy and Simeon.

2006-03-11: Still mulling over exactly what uC (microprocessor) to get for my next few projects.

On the good side, they are very low-cost these days. There's a few that support USB for under $10. The rest of the chips I'm considering are each under $4 (in ones). (There's even a couple for under $1; I'm tempted to buy a few of them even though they are inadequate for this particular project).

On the other hand, there are surprisingly many of them. It's taking me far longer than I expected to pick one or two out and buy them.

2006-03-05: ... bought Girl Scout cookies ... ... celebrated Mom's birthday (even though it's really March 8) ... ... Samuel Johnson's astronomy class ...

2006-03-04 Saturday, March 4: I went to a medical equipment auction at OSU Center for health sciences 2401 SW Blvd. ... go W across Arkansas river, turn S on SW Blvd just before HWY 244 ... http://www.nicholsonauction.com/march42006.htm

2006-03-03: planted 2 rose bushes. Moved a few crocuses from one place to another.

2006-02-25: Dan Bickerstaff's house.

2006-02-24: "Brain Development" at the OU-Tulsa Conference Center, at the Schusterman center.

2006-02-23:

• awards ceremony
• True Story book by Michael Finkel 2005.

2006-02-04: played a bit with FPP from David Tait , software for PIC microcontroller programming.

2006-01-04: Vacuumed the driveway.

2006-01-03: First telephone call using Skype (Dad got me nice headphones/microphone for Christmas).

2005-12-10 Christmas Fellowship Dinner at the home of Steve and Barbara Johnson

2005-12-03: helped paint ceilings in the "parsonage" at church.

A Beginner's Guide to Making a D*I*Y Planner http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/beginner includes A5 size A4 size Hipster PDA size, which is 3"x5" index card size ... including a nifty GTD flowchart. The easiest way I've found to expand the 3"x5" GTD flowchart to full letter-size paper: get the "graphics" version, open in GIMP or Inkscape, and scale to full page.

2005-11-17: Bought a 4-drawer filing cabinet for $79 at Office Depot. S. Bevers helped me carry it to the Krautter basement.

2005-11-08: had a good phone conversation with A. Lomax. Bought 2 small bookshelves at http://familydollar.com/ .

2005-11- Office Depot will print business cards for me; minimum $12.99 / 1000.

Staples will print business cards for me: minimum $10.99 / 500; $12.99 / 1000

2005-10-10 G.C. helped me figure out which fuse in my fusebox does what.

2005-10-05: used http://www.sysresccd.org/ to back up my Latitude laptop. and scan for viruses.

2005-10-01: Busy day today. I went to the church building and helped load up a black pickup truck with junk from the shed. Then I helped demolish the shed and load up Joseph's long trailer with the parts. Then I helped paint a bunch of indoor stuff. (I think the original plan was to also paint some outdoor stuff, but it rained all morning). Afterwards I went to the house warming party of D. Bickerstaff. I saw several people there who I had seen at the church earlier (but, of course, all cleaned up).

2005-09-27: phone interview today.

2005-09-26: "For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice..." -- Zech 4:10

2005-09-24: Cherry Street Farmer's Market with G.C. ... helped D. Bickerstaff move.

2005-09-22: Talked to J. from Seimens in Redmond WA. He asked me to fill out a "Short Interview Form" that included:

• "6.What is your main motivator? (For everything)"
• "7.What do you feel are your strongest skills? (Technical and non-technical)"

I'm tempted to respond

• 6. Chocolate
• 7. Tech: Making smoke come out of ICs. Non-tech: Singing in the shower.

2005-09-21: Investment seminar

2005-09-15T18:30 Investment seminar.

2005-09-15: Lunch w/ L. B. from Enduro cheered me up.

2005-09-13: Last day at Enduro

2005-09-09: left for New Life Ranch http://newliferanch.com/

2005-09-02: trip to Paul's house

2005-08-13:DAV: installed Inkscape 0.41 from http://inkscape.org/

2005-08-13:DAV: downloaded and installed JDK 5.0 Update 4 with NetBeans 4.1 Bundle and JRE 5.0 Update 4 from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp onto my Dell desktop box.

2005-07-05: Tues: First day of work at Enduro PLS. (Monday was 4th of July holiday).

2005-07-02: Sat: took pizza to Roy and Stephanie

2005-07-01: Celebrated Independence Day at the Sutton house. Mark McCullough (sp?) was there.

2005-07-01 T 15:00 :DAV: Enduro interview. Offered a job. I accepted. Start next Tuesday. Very excited. http://enduropls.com/

2005-06-23: how annoying. Blew a fuse ... the one that handles my air conditioner and my computers and my laser printer. (The AC isn't even in the same room as my computers). I guess I need to turn off the AC when I printing. ... I have 2 UPSes that my computers are plugged into, so in theory I have plenty of time for a clean shutdown. Alas, all 3 of the "battery backup" sockets of one UPS died at the same time the few blew. Even after I replaced the fuse, there is no power to those sockets. (I was confused for a bit when I saw the "surge protected" -- but not battery backup -- sockets on that UPS seem to work now -- but of course they'll immediately loose power next time a fuse blows). So I moved critical stuff (CPUs) over to the other UPS, and less-critical stuff (router, cable modem) over to the "surge protected" outlets. (I left my laser printer plugged directly into the wall). I suspect that the surge of the laser printer starting up plus the surge of the AC starting up when it decides the room is too warm is too much for the fuse.

2005-06-23: Printed some "family group record" forms for GC. first 2 pages: http://whipple.org/familygroup.pdf last page: http://www.winker.net/forms/fgs.pdf or http://www.progenealogists.com/familygroup3.pdf .

2005-06-22: ... Sawyer house ... deer ...

2005-06-14 moved piano at Mom's house.

2005-06-11 T 16:30 Sutton fellowship

2005-06-10:DAV: Went to Chris Hagin and Lauralin (sp?) wedding.

2005-06-08:DAV: visited Dr. Krautter's house. Today was the first time I saw the basement where we plan to install "the lab". We agreed it needs a "Jacob's ladder" spark gap. Bwahaha!

2005-06-08:DAV Gave my resume to Key Technical Personnel at a little job fair they had at Spirit Bank Community Room 1800 S. Baltimore Ave.

2005-06-06:DAV: I had planned on starting a the next Pro-E class today, but the class has been cancelled.

2005-06-01: talked to Farrah Walker OSU College Career Services http://www.osucareerservices.com/ (918) 594-8208 and Teresa OSU Graduate School 594-8160

2005-05-21 Sat. Dan Bickerstaff cooked tortellini.

2005-05-13 T 18:00: DAV: went to "college and career" fellowship at the house of the Coates.

2005-05-12:DAV: went to celebration of Sutton 25th anniversary at Woodward park.

2005-04-22 T 18:30: fri: DAV: fellowship at Sutton house.

2005-04-21:DAV: Interviewed and went on a tour of L-3com.com at the Jenks Airport. ( S. on HWY 75; turn L (E) on 81st; follow signs to airport: go S on Elwood until airport on L. Take the only road into the airport on this side (turn L (E) ); at the T where you must turn N or S, turn S, then take the first left -- Beechcraft drive. L3 Communications Aeromet )

Apparently Aeromet was an independent company until they were bought by L-3 a couple years ago. According to http://www.aeromet.com/ , "L-3 Aeromet ... We have behind us the entire resources of L-3 IS and L-3 Communications Corporation (NYSE: LLL)"

2005-04-20:DAV: Sam and Christy Williams

2005-04-17: talked to Richard Looney. He suggested I submit my resume to Los Alamos Nation Laboratory http://LANL.gov/ in Los Alamos NM.

2005-04-16:DAV: I saw Jamie Ward and Dan Mallard get married. Arrow Heights Baptist Church 3201 S. Elm Pl. Broken Arrow (near 101st St. S)

2005-04-15:DAV: While I helped set up for a wedding at Arrow Heights Baptist Church, I got a call from T. McCoy from L-3com.com ... "EO Research Engineer" at the Jenks airport.

2005-04-13:DAV: Today I read "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson I thought it was excellent ... high-power drills ... operating systems ... technology in general ...

2005-04-07: Thursday I haven't been able to print anything from my WindowsXP box for the last few days. Every time I tried to print, the application (notepad, web browser, etc.) locked up, typically with the message "... spoolsv.exe ... encountered a problem and needs to close ..." A google for "spoolsv.exe" showed bunches of unrelated problems. The article "Spoolsv.exe generates errors" gave me the right answer. After I deleted all the files in the spool directory C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS , my printer seems to work now.

2005-04-07: Thursday Ate lunch with Doug today. Talked about many ideas for an internet business. Doug wants me to be one of the people who blog for http://BaptistChapel.net/ .

2005-04-03: Krautter gave me a check $200 dated 4/3/05 for electronic parts.

2005-03-21: Perspectives class ... Mar 21, Mar 28, ... one a week -- when exactly did my class start and stop ? Jan 10, 2005 ?

Pro-Engineer class ... one a week -- when exactly did my class start and stop ? Jan 14, 2005

Biomedical electronics class ... one a week -- when exactly did my class start and stop ? Jan 15, 2005

2005-03-20: subscribed to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openeeg-list http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openeeg-software-dev (archives also there) http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/arch/

[move to hardware.html ?] 2005-03-13:DAV upgraded from a Linksys Hub to a Netgear 10/100 Mbps Gateway Router RT314.

The "100" lights are all on, but Copying a big directory from one computer to another doesn't seem much faster ...

The Win98 "Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | System Monitor" only shows ~ 1.1 MByte/s on the "Network Server" (zero on the "client").

The WinXP Windows Task Manager "Networking" says "Link speed: 100 Mbps, Network utilization: 8%".

2005-03-05: PACE at TCC south campus: watched the play "Fiddler on the Roof". Sarah Williams played one of the villagers.

2005-02-26: movie night at the Suttons: Ronald Reagan

2005-02-25:DAV: Just got back from the wedding of Tiffany Thomas and James Brandt. ... church at 102 W Beaver St Jenks OK

2005-02-19 (sat):DAV: A bunch of people went to the Williams house today. I helped a little putting up sheet-rock and installing some electrical outlets. Other people finished installing the plumbing in their "new" bathroom.

2005-02-18 (Fri):DAV: After class, I checked out a book from the TCC library: Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things book by Donald A. Norman 2004. Drove sarah from TCC to Grandmom's house. Helped Mom prune a bunch of crate-myrtle (sp?) trees around grandmom's house. Trimmed a little on the sycamore and red-bud and hack-berry trees. Mostly trimmed with loppers, but Mom let me borrow her chain-saw to cut a few larger limbs.

2005-02-10:DAV: Installed USB 2.0 PCI card in my Dell. Installed GIMP (which required me to install GTK+ first) from http://gimp.org/ (actually, it pointed me to http://gimp-win.sf.net/ , and I downloaded from there).

2005-01-22:DAV: Installing Pro/E: It appears that I *do* need an internet connection to get it to install. * Insert Pro/E "tryout edition" CD * Hit the big "Install Now!" button * Select product to be installed * Since I don't have a PTC online account yet, hit "Register for a PTC Online account" (that sends me to http://www.ptc.com/appserver/common/account/basic.jsp ) * Register with name and email address. (unfortunately, d.cary+ptc.com@ieee.org was not accepted.) password: * I got the email in my in-box as soon as I checked. * I click "create a new license file". It tells me Your Host ID is 00-C0-4F-6D-4A-54. Your Program ID is proepreview2 * log in to pct.com with my new PTC online account. * "Please fill out this form to request your activation key for your Pro/ENGINEER Tryout Edition CD." It has already filled in My computer's Host ID: 00-C0-4F-6D-4A-54 privacy policy: "... You can correct the information we collect You may access the data that PTC.com has recorded and update or correct the information at any time. You may send an email to webmaster@ptc.com to determine what information has been recorded or to request opt-out information. In the near future, you will be able to visit a web page on PTC.com that will provide the capability to immediately review and correct recorded information. ..." -- http://www.ptc.com/common/privacy.htm http://www.ptc.com/support/apps/programs/license.htm After filling out the form, I get: "Thank you for your request. The license file will be emailed to d.cary@ieee.org within 2 hours. If you do not receive your license file, or if you have other problems with your Pro/ENGINEER Tryout Edition installation, visit www.ptc.com/community/proewf/tryout/ ."

2005-01-19:DAV: Today my 2 hard drives came in. The are not exactly as I pictured them --

• * the web photos make it look like a metal case, but the case is actually plastic ...
• * it is *not* USB powered, it *requires* an external lump-on-a-cord DC power adapter.
• * it does not accept a standard DC power adapter or AC plug; it requires a special +5V and +12V adapter with a custom plug.

(Given that it requires a lump-on-a-cord adapter, it's nice that *both* the lump *and* the drive itself have green LED power indicators).

My Windows XP box recognized it as a USB2.0 drive right away; It shows as drive "F:" and although File Explorer doesn't show any files, "properties" tells me

Used space:         32,768 bytes 32.0 KB
Free space: 80,004,120,576 bytes 74.5 GB
Capacity:   80,004,153,344 bytes 74.5 GB

Currently, my WindowsXP box

shows drive "C:" has
Used space: 6,118,326,272 bytes 5.69 GB
Free space:   322,031,616 bytes 307 MB
Capacity:   6,440,357,888 bytes 5.99 GB

2005-01-13: Thursday bought 2 new USB hard drives (80 GB each). http://www.basoncomputer.com/HD80GBUSB37/item.aspx Shipping UPS ground: $12.25 Total: $162.25

2005-01-10 Perspectives class started www.TulsaPerspectives.org

2004-10-21: installed Norton Antivirus (from Symantec) on my Dell from http://www.sarc.com/ . Did other "Windows Update" on both the Dell and "tiny". have to reboot several times -- how annoying.

2004-10-20: updated my Dell to Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

... Italy ...

... trip to Belgium ...

2004-09-14:DAV: I am surprised that my interpretation of the simple sentence "Reconfirm all flights with your airline." is so very different from Grandmom's. I assumed that once I heard that all my flights were still on schedule, I was done. But Grandmom thought it meant I needed to *tell* someone that *I* was still planning to go.

2004-08-28: bought shoes with Mom.

2004-08-27 (Friday): busy day today.

I got up early and took Sylvia downtown to the Tulsa County Court house. The lady at the passport office said that, although it normally took 6 weeks to get the passport, with the +$60 expidite fee and the ~+$30 overnight delivery stamps, Sylvia should get her passport in about 2 weeks. http://travel.state.gov/passport/get_first_quickly.html .

Then I took Grandmom to Minnie Joe and Uncle Dr. Bob's house at ~1:30. We talked about their memories of Luxembourg and Italy.

While we were there, David Lee called me and invited me and Grandmom to eat dinner at their house at ~6:30.

After I took Grandmom home, I went to Dr. Krautter's office and hooked the output of a differential amplifier circuit up to a small speaker. The input was hooked to a Schmidt NAND oscillator. Maybe next time I'll hook the input to electrodes stuck to myself.

Then I took Grandmom to David Lee's house. I got a little lost, but we eventually got there by 7:00pm. David Lee and Elisabeth showed me a bunch of books and maps from when his family was in Italy; and talked about their favorite foods when they were there. We practiced saying a few words in Italian. We had dinner and pumpkin pie there. I think their kids really enjoyed having Grandmother over.

2004-07-30 (Friday): tonight at Baptist chapel was VBS family night. After the VBS sang, there was a food auction and some outdoor games.

I helped at the Briscoe wedding. We didn't finish cleaning up until 1 am.

2004-06-25: Jennifer Kuney and Marco Cazzola wedding 2004-Jun-26 I helped at the Kuney wedding. I was one of the people who stood in the parking lot and directed traffic before the wedding.

2004-07-09: power glitch. Dell seemed to ignore it. Alpha reset (why ?). Tiny seemed to ignore it. (Compaq was turned off).

2004-06-09: Busy. wed: swim Girl Scout registration funeral funeral potluck

2004-05-20: I'm listening to the song:

"Letters from War" song by Mark Schultz

...

(chorus)

"You are good,
and you're brave,
what a father
that you'll be some day.
Make it home
make it safe."

...

"I was up on a hill,
I was out there alone
When the shots all rang out
And bombs were exploding.
And thats when I saw him
He came back to me
And though he was captured
A man set me free
And that man was your son."

...

she prayed he was living,
kept on believing,
and kept on writing

...

Bring him home.

discussion: http://www.tophitsonline.com/reviews.php?songid=5672 and http://www.lyricscafe.com/hits/song.php?id=7949 .

Request for letters from war: http://www.korean-war.com/Archives/2000/09/msg00026.html .

2004-04-23: went to the "1980s theme party" at Baptist Chapel. Some people look very different wearing clothes from a different time. Took some photos.

2004-04-22: Thursday

I finished installing a ($99 from Office Depot) 80 GB HD in L. Fullerton's computer. She even paid me for my labor.

7:30: I went to the TASM art show. My sister won 3rd place. (Last year Sarah won 1st place).

2004-04-17: Page 23:

The Man came alive -- a living soul!

Yet another meme.

The page 23 Meme

Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

Where did this meme start ?

2004-04-15:DAV: "Tax day". 10 PM: Drove downtown to the central post office and mailed a tax return.

I was impressed by the organization -- several police cars, lots of barricades and traffic cones, a TV van (tall pole sticking out the top, with communication dish on top), and a orderly line of protestors holding their signs. Most were anti-war, but one handed me a piece of paper that said "Eat More Chicken".

I didn't even need to get out of the car, 2 post office workers (in uniform) were right by the curb. One took the 2 envelopes (state and federal), turned around, and dropped them into one of about 6 large empty mail "bags" behind him.

2004-04-13:DAV: Finally finished my income tax form. Filed totally electronically -- no paper at all. "Self-select PIN" DAV: ??? What's the point ? What is the PIN used for ? Do I need to record it ? ... ???

2004-04-05:DAV: Mom bought a new printer for me today. HP LaserJet 1012 printer serial number: CNFB349302

2004-03-16: I see that < sinaishades+feedback, at characterlink.net>, bounces.

2004-03-15: Had dinner with the Suttons. I showed them http://freewebs.com/sinaishades/ . Robert showed me esignal.com , MarketGuide.com , investor.reuters.com .

2004-03-14: http://freewebs.com/sinaishades/ reverted back to the nearly-blank, animated-graphic-infested version that freewebs set up by default right after I signed up. I re-uploaded my files and it seems to be working fine.

2004-03-13: setup free website for Alan Stevicks <sinaishades at characterlink.net>

Sinai Shades http://freewebs.com/sinaishades/

I looked at a bunch of places, and settled on: Angel Towns http://www.angeltowns.com/ "Our goal is to provide free, quality, web site hosting for everyone that is interested in making a child safe web site." claims "free ... 50 megabytes of space with no ads." "All of our free sites come with free web boards." To get server-site includes, must pay for a registered account, but that's only $10. "A registered account is only a one time fee of $10. You will never be asked for more money for your registered account."

There were only minor drawbacks:

• "Sorry, but we only accept free account sign ups during the first five days of each month."
• Pages are subject to removal, if there is no member activity (account logins) in the member account for 30 days. -- Terms Of Service http://www.angeltowns.com/tos.html
• "Do you run ads on member pages? No. We do however reserve the right to do so in the future, should it ever be needed to keep this service available."

Interesting business model: They make money by selling advertising space. The webmasters who update their web pages see this advertising, not the casual reader who reads those web pages.

So next I tried http://freewebs.com/

account name:sinaishades

I used d.cary+freewebs to subscribe; I don't think I've told anyone else that email address.

I used d.cary+forms_freewebs as the address to send "your online site's form submissions"

Your Website Address Is: http://www.freewebs.com/sinaishades/

... aparently it creates, by default, 1 pages: index.htm (the page I see when I go to http://www.freewebs.com/sinaishades/ ) It appears that it puts all files in the *same* directory. I suppose that makes it less confusing. ... I used d.cary+site_freewebs to put on the actual site.

related web pages: tutorial: how to add text to image of sunglasses http://d21c.com/LadyWolfette/sunglasses.html Batman hologram on the sunglass lens http://www.characterproducts.com/products/list.asp?cat=15 http://jaxsports.com/ says The Jax retail licensed sunglass products are no longer available. If you have an inquiry regarding custom sunglasses, please contact sunglasses at ikne.com http://ikne.com/

2004-03-09: 10 am tues: Robert Half

2004-03-12:DAV: Some time ago, I forget when, Mom gave me "The new Ziploc "EZ-FILL tall size" (1 1/2 gal.)" bag. . It precisely fits my Dana. http://www1.alphasmart.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=11;t=000254 . I can even read the screen (with difficulty) and type with it completely sealed.

2004-02-28:DAV: Just got back to my apartment around 8:30. Fri ~noon: Decker and I left for Bolivar. ~4pm: arrived at Bolivar. Met Nick. Hannah Mahaffey was in the play "in the woods", so Nick and Jacob and Elisabeth and Anna Witten and Jacob and myself bought tickets and watched the play. Later had pizza with all 7 people at Pizza Hut. Stayed at Nick and Jacob's apartment. (I slept in my sleeping bag on a foam pad on the carpet; Decker slept on the sofa).

Saturday I hear that Elisabeth and Jacob really want to come back to Tulsa, so we pack Elisabeth and Jacob and Decker into the back seat, and all our stuff into the trunk and front passenger seat.

(Well, we left my foam pad and both sleeping bags at Jacob's apartment -- maybe the Mahaffey family or Anna will bring them back tomorrow, or perhaps Jacob will bring them back a week from now). I drive most of the way... Jacob pulls out Decker's guitar and plays it while I drive, and we all sing some songs. ... we stop at the "world's largest McDonalds"; and I let Jacob drive the rest of the way. ...

We stop at Jacob's house. Elisabeth's mom, Barbara, comes with Sarah J. to pick Elisabeth up. Jacob and Decker drive off to a basketball game. Now that I have only my stuff in my car, I drive to Mom's house. I watch the movie "A Beautiful Mind". I stop in the middle to eat dinner. Mom says she's seen my website, and worries that it will look "cluttered" to anyone who considers giving me a job but researches my name on the internet first. ...

I found the movie very disturbing. Perhaps because there seem to be so many parallels to my own life: * Nash's office was cluttered with clipped magazine articles. My office is cluttered (but not *that* cluttered) with a pile of unread magazines. * Nash talked to people that his wife never saw. I talk to people that no one in my family ever saw. * Nash was a mathematician, and spent a lot of time working on big problems in math. I have a minor in math, and spend a lot of time working on some small problems in math. * Nash tried to do original work, doing something that had never been done before. So do I. * Nash found it difficult to act romantic. I keep thinking I'll be good at it, someday. * Nash feared weapons that he believed could kill every human in an entire city, but didn't really exist. The non-existent devices I fear could kill all multi-cellular life on the planet. * Nash didn't like the inside/outside ambiguity of the square grid, and preferred the non-ambiguous hexagonal grid (at least on one of the "deleted scenes" on the DVD). So do I. ... I drive home ~8:30 pm.

2004 "... Hannah's play is going to be the last week in February, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. ..."

2004-02-16: drove to Paul's house ... somewhere I have a photo of the big yellow bulldozer pushing snow in the Wallmart parking lot.

2004-02-14: Friday: 9:30 am 91st and Memorial: Honda tune up

2004-02-13:DAV: Today was packed full. I woke up to my phone ringing, Mom giving me a bit of warning. I had enough time to dress and eat a little before Mom picked me up for water aerobics class. After class, Sarah swam 10 laps (that's 0.5 Km). I swam 6 laps before I was so exhausted I gave up.

I sort of planned on going back to my apartment taking a little nap, but noooo.... Paul called and said he flying down.

I went with Mom and Sarah as they ran a little errand, then went directly to the airport (Hanger 12, TulsAir).

We picked Paul up there then we, Dad, and Mark converged on Arby's to eat lunch.

Then back to my apartment where Sarah did physics ( exponential equations ) and Paul napped.

Then we went back to the airport where Paul, Sarah and I squeezed into his Cessna. Paul in the pilot's seat, of course, Sarah at copilot, and I sqeezed into the "back seat".

I took some photos of Tulsa ... but soon it became too dark for my camera to take good photos. ... By the time we returned to Tulsa, it was dark and we could see all the pretty lights of the night view of Tulsa. Then we drove to Mom's house and ate dinner and watched the movie "Princess Bride". It was after 10pm by the time I got home.

2004-01-27:DAV: went to http://hp.com/ , downloaded the WindowsXP device driver for my ScanJet 4300C, and installed it on my "Dell" box. (odd -- why does the device driver have a date of "2002-02-21", but the "update" has a date of "2001-11-01" ?)

2004-01-23:DAV: Today I had a meeting with Chad Boss http://LamarSystems.com/, Steve Vandervort http://DirectOk.com/, and Robert Dieter http://EmbedTech.com/.

2004-01-22:DAV: Today I had lunch with Sam Williams and Doug Johnson. We talked a little about the http://BaptistChapel.org/ web site and other things.

2004-01-08:DAV: renewed IEEE membership.

In particular, "By renewing my IEEE membership, I acknowledge that I have read and understand the IEEE Code of Ethics." Last year's technical interest profile:

1. 2434 micro/nano electro-mechanical systems and robots
2. 1900 communications
3. 2900 geoscience and remote sensing
4. 0700 reliability
5. 1250 source coding, data compression and quantization

1200 information theory
1800 engineering in medicine and biology
2400 robotics and automation
2600 professional communication
1600 computer

IEEE technical interest profile codes (complete list of all major areas):

0100 signal processing
0200 broadcast technology
0300 antennas and propagation
0400 circuits and systems
0500 nuclear and plasma sciences
0600 vehicular technology
0700 reliability
0800 consumer electronics
0900 instrumentation and measurement
1000 aerospace and electronic systems
1100 neural networks
  (but how is this different from
  "0170 neural networks" ?)
1200 information theory
1300 industrial electronics
1400 engineering management
1500 electron devices
1600 computer
1700 microwave theory and techniques
1800 engineering in medicine and biology
1900 communications
2000 ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
2100 components, packaging, and manufacturing technology
2200 oceanic engineering
2300 control systems
2400 robotics and automation
2500 education
2600 professional communication
2700 electromagnetic compatibility
2800 systems, man, and cybernetics
2900 geoscience and remote sensing
3000 social implications of technology
3100 power engineering
3200 dielectrics and electrical insulation
3300 magnetics
3400 industry applications
3500 power electronics
3600 lasers and electro-optics
3700 solid-state circuits
3900 interdisciplinary and new activities
4000 environment, health and safety
  (but how is this different from
  "3490 electrical safety, industry and general" ?)

a few specialty areas DAV thinks are interesting:

3020 technology forecasting and assessment
3560 electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference
  (how is this different from
  "2700 electromagnetic compatibility" ?)
3634 lasers in medicine and biology
3645 optical communications
3714 VLSI circuit, chip, and system design
3730 optoelectronics and imaging
3740 CAD - analysis, synthesis, verification, physical design
3780 medical electronics
3930 electrography (what is this ?)
1980 communications theory, modulations, and coding
1985 signal processing, storage, and communications electronics
  (how is this different from
  "0100 signal processing" ?)
1990 computer communications, systems, and protocols
2019 biological and medical [ultrasonics]
2111 printed wiring
2153 test techniques
2255 underwater acoustics
2264 underwater EM and optics
2421 personal and service robotics
2423 medical robots and systems
2425 green and sustainable robotics and automation (???)
2431 computer and robot vision
2434 micro/nano electro-mechanical systems and robots
2454 computational intelligence
2620 reproduction and illustration techniques
2639 management
  (how is this different from
  "1400 engineeing management" ?)
2680 technical journalism
2750 spectrum management
2815 economic, environmental, social, and urban systems
2821 adaptive systems
2830 man-machine systems
1110 fuzzy systems
1240 detection, estimation, and identification
1250 source coding, data compression and quantization
1452 technology forecast
  (how is this different from
  "3020 technology forecasting and assessment" ?)
1460 professional development and motivation
1602 computer architecture
1605 computer graphics
1606 computer languages
1613 fault tolerant computing
1621 operating systems
1625 real time systems
1629 software engineering
1631 VLSI
1633 computer generated music
1635 multimedia computing
1644 visualization
1645 digital libraries
1810 biomedical signal processing
1815 image processing
  (how is this different from
  "0160 image and multidimensional signal processing" ?)
1840 prosthetic and sensory aids
1855 ultrasound in medicine
  (how is this different from
  "2019 biological and medical [ultrasonics]" ?)
0106 multimedia signal processing;
0155 sensor array and multichannel signal processing
0160 image and multidimensional signal processing
0251 digital video generation/storage/display
0351 radio astronomy
0411 image and video signal processing
0414 medical electronics
0471 multimedia systems, technology, and applications
0473 wireless communication circuits and systems
0476 nanostructures circuits and systems
0495 VLSI circuits, systems, and applications
0496 low power electronics, circuits, systems, and applications
0523 magnetohydrodynamics
0710 maintainability
0720 reliability physics
0730 human effects
0840 games
0850 micro processor application and control
0905 measurement precision, sensitivity, and noise
0911 DC - low frequency measurement
0921 high frequency measurement
0945 measurement sensor technology
0985 imaging measurements
0995 self-test and built-in test
0997 education in instrumentation and measurement
0999 medical measurements
1038 celestial navigation

perhaps Samuel Johnson would be interested in IEEE technical interest profile codes

2200 oceanic engineering
2500 education
2255 underwater acoustics
2264 underwater EM and optics
0351 radio astronomy
0523 magnetohydrodynamics
0840 games
1038 celestial navigation

2003-12-14 "heavy with thought"

I had an odd dream last night.

I was at some sort of college campus. The buildings were located on the side of a pretty steep mountain. There were a lot of people, but like most of my dreams none of them were anyone I recognize in my waking life. In the dream, however, I said hi and seemed to remember being friends with many of them for years. I still haven't figured out if these "dream people" are a completely different set of people every dream, or if they somehow continue from one dream to the next. I'm guessing that at least these particular people were ones I'd never dreamed about before -- at least I don't remember dreaming about this particular location before.

I walked into the gymnasium while people were practicing some sport (basketball ?). a few drips of water dripped onto someone as he walked by, and as he turned around and looked up, a thin stream of water started coming out. We all did some combination of looking up at the roof or running off the court out the doors and then looking back in through the doors as the water came down faster and faster the court filled up a couple feet deep. Someone pointed out the door that led up to the attic above the gym ceiling, but no one wanted to wade through the water just yet. I picked up both legs and pushed off the door frame and glided a couple of feet above the water all the way over to the door; it was already open so I started walking up the stairs. I got the feeling that I "glided" pretty often, and people in the area didn't think it was anything special -- no more special than the ability to jump all the way up the the basketball hoop and dunk the basketball. Somehow my dream jumped to a completely different building made of steel and lots and lots of floor-to-ceiling glass. It was a pretty large building, and there was only one door, so instead of going all the way around to the front entrance my habit was to walk through the glass. In some of my dreams, I can push through glass without any effort -- like it was water, and after I'm through the ripples soon settle down and the glass looks just like it did before I walked through it. In this dream, though, the glass right around my hands turned white and crystalline, and it took a little effort -- like pushing through snow -- to get through. The white crystals kept pushing against me -- there was never an empty gap between the glass and my skin -- so as soon as I pulled through the glass was already solid and flat -- no ripples or holes -- and the white crystalline spot soon "melted" back into the original clear flat pane of glass. Then I return to climbing the stairs in the gymnasium building. At the top of the stairs there's a short hallway and about 4 other people there, trying to help me fix the problem with the gym ceiling. the door in that hallway to go into the attic is not much bigger left-right, top-bottom than a standard door, but when someone opens it, I see it's incredibly thick, maybe 6 inches of solid wood, and it bothers me that there's no hole or window in it. Most of us go in through the door; there's a yard or two of solid floor all the way around the outside of the "room", but the middle is just thin layer of foam. There's some more solid-looking beams in a grid across it to holding big lights (used to light the gym floor far below), and places where the foam has bubbled down and still has puddles of water. While most of them go in and try to figure out where the water came from, I turn back to the door. I push my index finger against it about eye level and chips of wood start coming out. Someone walks by, and I remember that being able to drill a hole through wood with my index finger isn't "possible", so to keep from letting these people know I can do that, I pretend I'm using an electric drill -- I make little "rrrrrrm, rrrrrm, szzzz, szzzzz" drilling sounds with my mouth. Much later, I'm attending some sort of awards ceremony and someone receives some sort of dense metal medallion that the presenter mentions is "heavy with thought". I realize that that is what damaged the gym ceiling -- some leak in the roof had filled the attic with water, but because no one thought about it, it stayed light. When the first person looked up at the ceiling, it started to bulge, and as others looked at it, the water became heavier and heavier until it broke through and flooded the gym floor.

Now that I'm awake, I find that an interesting model of physics -- the density of things depends on how much people think about them. It's approximately true for some things even in the true (waking) world. People have been fixated on gold for millennia, and now it is one of the densest and heaviest substances. Styrofoam was just invented in the past 100 years (right ?), and people often throw it away and don't give it a second thought -- and now it is one of the lightest materials. Helium, hydrogen, and the various gases in the air are difficult to fix our attention on, because they are transparent -- and they have low density. The largest bridges use a lot of steel and concrete, and during the entire time they cross the bridge, people have an intense interest in whether the bridge will hold them up or not -- so steel and concrete are heavy. I wonder if this can apply to topics on the internet that people are interested in -- if there's some sort of analog to "weight" and "density" that can be applied to issues and ideas, where it's obvious that whether people are interested in something or not really does affect how many web pages discuss that topic. Now that I'm awake, I wonder why some sorts of impossible abilities -- "gliding", walking through glass without damaging it -- are no big deal in that dream world, while other abilities -- drilling through wood with only an index finger -- are superpowers. Why do superpowers need to be hidden ? And I can't see how anyone could be fooled into thinking I had an electric drill, just because they heard me make "drill noises" with my mouth.

2003-11-26:DAV: ... driving, like I do most Wednesday nights, down the Pearl Harbor Memorial Expressway ...

listening to the song: "lose this life" by Michael Tait http://almenconi.com/topics/chr_music/music_reviews/taitlose.html

...
drifting like a satellite
spinning out of control
but love -- your love -- is stronger than gravity.
It's pulling at the heart of me
...
There's no denying the truth
...
....

2003-10-??

2003-10-?? ... visited Longaberger http://longaberger.com/ and went on the basketmaking tour, watching them make Longaberger baskets. Then we had "high tea" at the "Sentimental Rose(TM) Tea Garden" at the Longaberger homestead.

2003-10-13 bought my first item of Ebay: a used cell phone. I bought the cell phone from Kirk Burns via PayPal.

2003-10-09:DAV: Bought wedding present for Jennifer Taylor today. Somehow I dropped my cell phone in the store parking lot ... ... Ryan ... The screen is shattered. But the buttons seem to work; I can receive calls and dial out calls. I went to 3 different cell phone stores today trying to replace it. The closest I got was advice to buy a GSM phone on Ebay and a demonstration on how to pull the SIM card and plug it into another GSM phone.

2003-10-02 ... bought stuff at Walmart in Bolivar MO ... I drove Decker ... 3 guitars ... Jeremy and Jacob already had a hub, but they were lacking a cable. Decker and I went to Radio Shack, bought an Ethernet cable, went back to the apartment, and connected everything and tweaked the software so that now Jeremy can surf the Internet simultaneously while Jacob surfs the Internet.

2003-09-29:DAV: went to the Tulsa State Fair today and saw Jars of Clay http://JarsOfClay.com/ in concert. One of them talked a little bit about the epidemic that is currently killing 8,000 people every day ( bignums.html#AIDS ), and suggested helping World Vision http://www.WorldVision.org/ do something about it.

2003-09-21:DAV: First time I've had any trouble with my Dana: it wouldn't turn on. I plugged it into the USB cable and the green LED on the side of the Dana came on ... but the on/off button still doesn't do anything. I try blindly changing the contrast (hit On/Off, hold down "function" and hit "contrast", continue to hold it while I hit the "up" and "down" keys ... then let go, hit On/Off, and do the same thing all over again.) So I do a "soft reset" -- while making sure no buttons are pressed, push the stylus into the reset hole on the back of the Dana. I got a little picture that says "palm powered" that blinked on and off a few times, then completely blank again. Now even the green LED is off.

I push the reset button again. The green LED comes back on ... but I don't see anything on the screen. I try the "blind contrast adjust" thing again (silly, because the "palm powered" logo was clearly visible before), and still nothing.

It seems that after hitting the reset button, nothing seems to happen for 20 seconds, then the "palm powered" logo briefly flashes.

2003-09-21:DAV: Just got back from my trip to Wichita. It takes about 3.5 hours either direction.

2003-09-19:DAV: at 2pm today, I picked up Mark and drove to Paul's house. (OK, so I drove part of the way, then napped while Mark drove the rest of the way).

2003-09-15:DAV: Moments after my water-aerobics class ended, my right leg (calf) cramped up. I managed to get out of the pool myself. Then Kenda (not Kendra) and my mom had to help me straighten my leg out. They could see the muscle contracted into a big hard mass, and the side of the muscle fluttered in waves. I don't think I could consciously make the muscle flutter like that if I tried. I walked around a little and tried to stretch it. 5 minutes in the hot tub next to the swimming pool seemed to help.

we stopped by Albertsons. The blood pressure machine there told me: 121 mmHg Systolic 77 mmHg Diastolic 78 beats/min

2003-09-13:DAV: subscribed to the space-elevator mailing list.

2003-09-14:DAV: went to the airshow next to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM). My sister used my camera to take a few photos.

2003-09-11:DAV: I have joined Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net/ ... book.html#distributed_proofreaders . They have tons of "teams"; I wonder which 3 I should join ? I seem to be included in:

Graduate Students
Team Non-Competitive
Libertarians
No, really, I'm not goofing off
Fans of Jesus
Team Procrastination
Unemployed Proofers
Bookcrossers
Error Annihilators
Mozilla Users
Homeschool Proofers

and probably a few others I missed. I guess I'll stick with Fans of Jesus Mozilla Users Homeschool Proofers

2003-09-08: after water-aerobics class, we stopped by Albertsons. The blood pressure machine there told me: 114 mmHg 72 mmHg 85 beats/min

2003-09-05:DAV: my first water-aerobics class.

2003-09-04:DAV: I think this is the day the chocolate seeds (Theobroma Cacao) came in the mail from Debora. Happy Happy Happy.

2003-08-26:DAV

This month's favorite song: "Be all end all (Center of Attention)" by the group "Tree63" http://www.geocities.com/gospeltime/songtekst/tree63.html .

Center of attention night and day,
I just hang on every word you say.
Worlds revolve around you silently.
How come you have so much time for me ?

...

Be all. End all.
Start me.
Finish me.

...

You're my center of attention.

Last month's favorite song: "No more faith, no more hope" by __???_.

2003-08-22 (?):DAV: I think this was the first day I visited Dr. Krautter's office.

2003-08-15:DAV http://newliferanch.com/

2003-08-13: ice still forming on food in my refrigerator. Turned dial from "4" to "2". user interface annoyance: Nearly all the dials I've ever seen that have the numbers on the moving part also have the "tick mark" pointer (that indicates which number) lined up with the *top* or the *bottom* of the dial. My refrigerator has the tick to the *right* of the dial, I didn't even see it for a long time. (Some dials have the pointer on the moving part, pointing to unmoving numbers. Which is the better user interface ? ).

2003-08-08: 10:25 am to 10:55 am: 2 mile walk: 30 minutes.

2003-08-05: I saw the movie X2: X-Men United with my dad and my sister. At the __ movie theatre NW of Memorial and 71st St. A few of my fav lines / scenes:

(Wolverine pulls a soda out of the cabinet, hesitates, then hands it to Frost, who chills it). ...

Nightcrawler: Someone so beautiful shouldn't be so angry. Storm: Sometimes anger helps you to survive. Nightcrawler: So does faith. ...

Eric/Magneto to John/Pyro: You are a god among insects. Don't let anyone tell you different. ...

Nightcrawler: I told you, if I can't see where I'm going..... Storm to Kurt/Nightcrawler:I have faith in you. Jean: don't believe anything you see in there. ...

Nightcrawler: Then why not stay in disguise all the time? You know, look like everyone else? Mystique: Because we shouldn't have to. ...

2003-08-04: shiny new AlphaSmart Dana came in the mail.

2003-07-28: Today I had my 2nd interview at Eastech Badger. I think it went well, they even quoted me a number (should I post the number here ?). IEEE tells me the average engineer with my experience has a much higher salary.

I said I would think about it.

So now what am I going to do ?

• Haggle over the salary ?
• Ask for perks like "every other friday off" or "leave work at noon every friday" (this sounds really appealing ...) or "a refrigerator fully stocked with Snapple(tm)" (just kidding) or something else ?
• Accept the job as-is (I'm at least getting more experience), but with the attitude that "I'm still looking for a job" -- still shipping out resumes and going on interviews like crazy. "I'm out-of-here as soon as the next job offer comes in."

Hm. I'll have to think about this some more.

2003-07-23: Today at VBS one of our kids broke a small side window. Today at VBS about 6 kids prayed to accept Christ. I'm sure that if it took a broken window for each kid to accept Christ, Pastor Don Queen would break every window in the church.

2003-07-23: Yesterday when I woke up I had no electricity. I kept thinking they would fix it soon so I didn't need to do anything, and there's lots of stuff I needed to do anyway that I don't need electricity for, but I ran out of patience around noon and called PSO. I walked next door to Grandmom's house and spent much of the afternoon there. She said her power went off for a little while, but it came back on so I used her washing machine and enjoyed her air conditioner. I left for VBS around 5pm and when I got back around 8pm my electricity was back on.

[FIXME: need to write something here about VBS at John 3:6 and VBS at Immanuel]

2003-07-13: Today is the first time I heard that anyone (other than myself) read this page.

2003-07-07: around 2003-06-15, not much hot water comes out Gracie's kitchen sink. 2003-06-18: Steve Florer replaced Gracie's kitchen sink. July 7,8,9; large flakes of white plastic appear in all faucets through the hot water side. It appears to be the "Perfection dip tube problem". http://www.rheem.com/Documents/ResourceLibrary/TSB_Common/1207.pdf indicates that Gracie's hot water heater is:

Serial number:
RN 12 95 1 13473
   ----- - -----
   |     | |
   |     | serial number of the heater
   |     plant ID number 1.
   manufactured 1995-12

2003-07-06: "Church on the land". Grandmom Cary found a turtle near her house a few weeks ago; today I released it on the church land. (OK, I actually let some of the little kids take it out of the bucket and let it go).

2003-07-04: celebrated independence day and the birthday of Sylvia (Cary) Bevers at Mark's house.

2003-07-03: celebrated independence day at Sutton house.

2003-06-22 to 2003-06-27: Girl Scout day camp. Adam, Ben, and myself were the leaders of the boy's group, "the black frogs", a group of 11 boys.

2003-06-17: Thank-you party at Kuney house.

2003-06-11:DAV: Met Bill Collins today.

2003-06-09 to 2003-06-11:DAV: Hispanic VBS at the Owasso Community Center.

2003-06-01:DAV: I was disturbed to discover a scratch on the back of my left hand almost 20 mm long. It's perfectly straight. It looks pretty fresh -- bright red, although not deep enough to bleed -- so it must have happened early this morning or perhaps yesterday. Why don't I remember getting scratched ?

2003-05-12:DAV: bought electric shaver today. http://norelco.com/ It asks me to replace the heads once a year. ($33 for replacement heads plus either ( HQ5-K ) Razor Cleaner and Razor Lubricant, or ( HQ5-AL ) AC Charge Cord) Did lunch with Justin Nguyen and Ike Nelson today.

2003-05-10:DAV: At 1 am this morning, the sirens are screaming. Here, that means tornados. It's raining pretty hard, with lightning pretty often. I take 2 pillows and a sheet and go downstairs. I try to make myself small and hide under the sheet. Yeah, like that flimsy sheet offers any protection. It was 1 am in the morning -- I wasn't thinking all that clearly. Later, I wake up. It's still dark, but there's no rain or wind, so I go back upstairs to bed.

2003-05-08:DAV: Just before I leave for Bible Study tonight, I walk into Grandmom's house. The TV is on, and we see a track left by a tornado in Oklahoma City. [The 2003-05-09 newspaper claims this is the most expensive storm ever; no one killed, but over $ 1 billion in property damage]. The warnings almost convince me to stay home, but we figure that all the storms look like they'll stay South of Tulsa, so I go to Bible Study anyway.

2003-05-08: bought new cell phone this morning.

Flaws compared to my old cell phone:

• While I'm talking, it doesn't display how many seconds I've talked.
• Instead of having the "up" and "down" keys actually above and below each other, they're side-by-side.

Improvements compared to my old cell phone:

• At any time that I'm not actually online, it's possible to look up how many seconds I was online last time.

2003-05-02: I know I had my cell phone this morning when I called Doug just before we ate lunch, but now I can't find my cell phone.

2003-04-29: Ate lunch with Phillip Hildebrand, and toured his Strategy building. It was a big egoboost seeing 2 different boards I had designed still being manufactured. (My initials are still printed on each one).

2003-04-27: Just to make a point in a silly argument, I threatened Jacob. Now I'm thinking that was a bad idea. Sometimes I drift through different mental states... When I do crazy stuff I regret later, I would like to claim "I'm not normally like that -- it's the alcohol". Except I don't drink alcohol. Since I'm crazy enough to threaten a good friend when I'm sober, I don't want to see what I could do drunk. Some people can handle a beer or 2 just fine. I suspect that I'm not one of those people.

2003 Monday, April 21 -- Friday, April 25: I enjoyed my time here. Mostly I stayed on the SBU campus ( area code 417; 1600 University Avenue, Bolivar MO 65613 http://sbuniv.edu/ ), but I did go on a field trip with a biology class to the city park. If/when I return, remind me to bring a blanket and have a picnic at the park. Several nights I stayed up until at least 1:00 am discussing deep theological subjects (I think we spent the most time on freewill vs. predestination/determinism); I also got into a cloning debate in the cafeteria.

Friends at SBU I saw (listed with roommates):

• Jacob B. and Jeremy M.
• Elisabeth J. and Hannah M.
• Christy B. and Kathleen
• Ashley from Australia

I discussed my "unknowns" file with Justin; and was a little surprised to discover that Justin has an incredibly detailed mental image of the kind of house he would like to live in.

I returned quite late Friday night -- I had planned all week to go to the event at the Sutton house, but I started off late, then I stopped at a rest area on the way and napped for a couple of hours.

Sunday, April 20: Resurrection Sunday. Right after evening service, went to Rib Crib with a few C/C, then drove to Bolivar MO. (Actually, I only drove until I started getting tired around 11:10 pm; Jeremy M. drove the rest of the way. We arrived at his dorm around 1:30 am.). Slept on the futon in Jeremy and Jacob's dorm room.

Monday, April 14: income tax weirdness: big 8 foot long by 3 foot high concrete barricades ...

5pm March 22: Mission Banquet (youth)

6:30 pm March 21: Mission Banquet (adults) France (_Bethany_ W., Lyndsey D., David Cary, Jonathan S.)

2003-03-12T16:00:DAV I think this is the first day of Mr. Kuney's Spanish class.

2003-03-06:DAV: blank business cards: Staples: $5.99 for Ampad blue border 250 cards

2003-02-03:DAV: I searched for "connectivity" at walmart http://www.walmart.com/catalog/search-ng.gsp?search_query=connectivity and I'm astonished to see that Wall Mart sells the books

• $105 _Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity_ Braitenberg, Valentino Springer-Verlag Telos, 1998, ISBN # 3540638164 Hardcover
• $146 _Proceedings of IEEE Tencon' 98: IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Global Connectivity in Energy, Computer, Communication and Control, New Del_ IEEE Industry Applications Society Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee, 1998, ISBN # 0780348869 Paperback

Truly astonished. I thought I could only get these kinds of books at a technical specialty bookstore.

2003-01-24:DAV: My sister Sarah and I had fun at the Youth, College and Career "you sure worked hard on those Honduras Christmas shoeboxes" reward fellowship ... silly games ...

2003-01-21:DAV: P.J. Bennet from Insight Engineering, McElroy, called me today.

2003-01-20:DAV: Since this is the official Martin Luther King Jr. day, I printed out a couple of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. that I hadn't read before. creed.html#martin_luther_king I took part in a protest at the entrace of R.S.U., protesting their treatment of 2 of my friends http://rsusaga.com/ . I held a poster with a MLK quote on one side and ``presumption of innocence'' on the other. While standing, I read these speeches from half a century before.

This is the first time that I've held up a sign in a protest. I feel all patriotic and everything, taking advantage of my right to freedom of expression (Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 ). But it's easy for me to do this. We just stood for a few hours, passed out 1 page of information to anyone who wanted to know what we were up to, waved at campus security and and the Oklahoma State Sheriff when they drove by, then ate pizza afterward. Martin Luther King Jr. and the people who demonstrated with him, were attacked by police and police dogs, then went to jail afterward. I have a tremendous respect for Martin Luther King Jr. because even after all that, MLK still preached non-violence: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?".

2003-01-20:DAV: If a person were to read all my web pages, I suspect that person may know more about me than I know about myself, at least in some areas -- since I've been slowly accumulating ideas, fragmentary thoughts, book recommendations, etc. for nearly a decade now, there's probably stuff on that web page about me that I've forgotten.

2003-01-18: ... I bought my Handspring Visor (PalmOS) sometime in 2001 while I was working in Catoosa OK ...

2003-01-18:DAV: Woke up at the Sutton house. Mr. Sutton scrambled eggs for his family and me. Simeon Sutton and Robert Sutton talked stocks for a little while. Then I drove Simeon to the prayer meeting at Baptist Chapel. (I think the wedding shower for Jennifer Leskowat finished just before we started -- I wasn't invited to the shower, so Mom took my wedding present for me. )

2003-01-17:DAV: Went to Robert Sutton's house Friday night 6:30 pm. Mr. Sutton summarized some of the book _Rich Dad, Poor Dad_ by Robert Kiyosaki then we watched a video by Wade Cook about investing in the stock market. Mr. Sutton suggested (perhaps only half in jest) that if I made a few million $ on the stock market, I wouldn't need to find a job.

2002-12-??:DAV: A very good friend that I haven't seen in a long time sent me a cool present http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/superplexus-review.html .

2002-12-22:DAV: it's become a tradition for me to go to Mom's house every December and cook fudge.

  
  _FUDGE_

  3 cups sugar
  3/4 cup margarine [2002-12-22: used butter today]
  2/3 cup evaporated milk
     [Milnot -- this is less than a full 12 oz can]
  12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate pieces (2 cups)
  1 jar marshmallow creme ( 7 oz.)
  1 cup chopped nuts
  1 teaspoon vanilla

  [Pre-grease a 13x9 inch pan and set aside.]
  Combine sugar, margarine, and milk
  [in heavy saucepan].
  Bring to a boil. Stir 5 minutes
  over medium heat to soft ball stage.
  Remove from heat; stir in
  chocolate pieces. Add
  marshmallow creme, nuts, and vanilla;
  beat until well blended.
  Pour into a greased 13x9 inch pan.
  Cool. Cut in squares.
  [2002-12-22:DAV: typed from old, yellow 3x5 inch card.]

2002-12-10 I heard about NaNoWriMo for the first time today http://NaNoWriMo.org/ . See learning.html#by_doing

2002-11-17:DAV After church, ate lunch at Mazzio's with Mom, Dad, Sarah, and Mark. Dad's turn to buy lunch this time.

2002-11-16:DAV: On the way back from SDC, Emily D. made what I think was a pretty profound remark (quoting someone else ?): ``The people make the trip''. In other words, no matter where you go, no matter what you do when you get there, the difference between having a bad trip and having a wonderful trip has a lot to do with the people there and the people with whom you travel.

... Stephanie Elaine Averill and Roy Allen Thomas ... http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/WRegList.asp?order_num=-1&WRN=-1690229003&

2002-11-07:DAV: mailed the book _The Big Cats: The Paintings of Guy Coheleach_ text by Nancy A. Neff Abradale Press / Harry N Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York ISBN 0-8109-8076-2

2002-11-02T02:30: just got back to my apartment. It's 35 miles from the Boyles to my apartment. Anna Boyles and Janine Ward playing piano in the Boyles living room, others singing along to __ Green songs ... I felt we were talking to God.

2002-10-30:DAV: ... with Mom ... bought shoelaces ... ... bought chips -- was this for Family Reunion ?

2002-10-21:DAV: I just returned to my apartment a few minutes ago (Monday ~8pm). I left it 2002-10-16 (Thursday) around noon. (Normal journals are written purely chronological. I'm making this weblog a little less pure -- when I have some more thoughts on something that happened on a particular day, I go back to that day and insert them in the log, rather than referring back to that day at the (current) end of the log. (2004-09-03: I hear this is controversial -- http://internettime.com/blog/archives/000565.html ... has that blog moved to http://metatime.blogspot.com/ ? ) (2004-10-28: It's beyond controbersial -- it violates "Blog Ethics" http://www.theconnexion.net/cgi-bin/blogwiki.pl?Blog_Ethics . )

2002-10-21:DAV: (written 2002-10-21): I slept in Mom's guest bedroom from about 4am until about noon. I helped Mom and Sarah pack some boxes to send to the kids in Honduras. Sarah showed me some of the stuff she picked up on her trip to California. I think Sarah just got back yesterday. I think Sarah was a little dissapointed I didn't bring back a present for her and Mom. Mom cooked dinner, and we ate when Dad came home.

2002-10-20:DAV: (written 2002-10-21): ... packed and our 3 vans left around noon. ... pizza ... small photo album of Mark Stanley (sp ?) ... Jennifer Leskowat ... Samuel Sutton brought his magnetic chess set, and several people (including myself) played chess. ... songs ... We stopped the vans (I think it was at the McDonalds that's on the Cimmaron Turnpike between Tulsa and Stillwater) and unloaded all the luggage out of the trailer. Those of us who lived in Tulsa (Matt and Greg Floyd, Mrs. Boss and Jordan Boss, Lacy and Brian McPherson, and myself) took our luggage and piled into the van Mrs. Boss drove. Everyone else put their luggage back into the trailer. We followed them into Tulsa, but they continued on towards Baptist Chapel in Owasso. Mrs. Boss drove all the way to my Mom's house and dropped me off there at close to 4 am.

2002-10-19:DAV: (written 2002-10-21): ... On the ropes course, I bruised my wrist ... hike ...

2002-10-18:DAV: (written 2002-10-21): Woke up at the hotel in Hayes OK. They tell me that the guys in my room watched the movie ___ while I was asleep. I guess it's difficult to wake me up. We pack up and drive the rest of the way to the Wilds of Colorado http://wilds.org/ . (We stop and I eat at Subway on the way) . (we sing-along to songs on the CD player: ``She don't know she's beautiful'', ``It's all right to be little bitty'', ... ) . We arive around __, sign in, and get all the luggage out of the trailer and take it to the cabins. The main lodge is on the W side of the lake. My understanding is that all the sponsors slept in little motel-like rooms on one side of the main lodge, all the boy campers slept in cabins to the S of the main lodge, and all the girl camplers slept in cabins to the N of the main lodge. All the boy campers in our group (that came in our 3 vans) (including myself) were assigned to a single cabin. I found it confusing that it was called cabins 17 and 18.

2002-10-17:DAV: (written 2002-10-21): Today I left my apartment around noon, visited with my Mom a little bit, then Mom dropped me off at Baptist Chapel. We're all excited with anticipation about our trip to the Wilds.

We take 3 vans: 2 white one (rented, I think), and the Sutton's red van (which pulls the trailer where we throw all the luggage).

Here's the people I remember in the 3 vans: (not in any particular order)

sponsors	boy campers	girl campers
Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Paula Sutton Mr. and Mrs. Doug and Lisa Johnson Mrs. Melissa Boss. (Mr. Chad Boss wasn't able to come this time).	Matt Floyd Greg Floyd Sam Williams Samuel Sutton Josiah Sutton Simeon Sutton Josh Feldman Samuel Johnson John Leskowat Jordan Boss Brian McPherson Daniel Bickerstaff Chris Hagan David Cary	Bonnie Jean Bavido Janine Ward Sarah Williams Bethany Williams Lindsey Donagan Christy Briscoe Michaela Feldman Elizabeth Johnson Sharon Leskowat Jennifer Leskowat Lacy McPherson Amanda __ Angela __ Rebekah __

[FIXME: I think I've mispelled a few names ...]

Hm, that's odd. I thought I heard Mr. Sutton say that there were a total of 28 campers, 13 boys and 15 girls, but I'm getting 14+14=28.

As you might guess, all the campers with the same last name are siblings. Amanda and Angela __ are twins.

??? went shopping with Mom and Sarah for stuff to put in the boxes to send to the kids in Honduras. That's odd -- I only remember doing this once, but I have reciepts dated 2002-10-14 and 2002-10-25 2002-10-25 .

2002-10 ??? I watched ``The sum of all fears'' movie with Mom, Sarah, ... [who else ?] ... at a movie theatre ... I don't remember the exact day ... sometime before the East Coast trip ...

2002-10-14:DAV: I haven't felt motivated to do much in the past few weeks. There are so many things I could do. So why don't I just do them ?

2002-10-13:DAV: Today I went to family reunion in Pawnee OK. I took Grandmom (Gracie Sylvia (Rice) Cary) and all the food she cooked up yesterday.

2002-10-12:DAV: Today I went throught the cornfield maze (the ``maize maze'') in Tonkawa OK.

The group went in 2 cars: Janine W. drove Jamie W., Bethany W, and Sarah W. Josiah S. drove DAV. We started at Baptist Chapel in Owasso. (I didn't realize that my mom and sister were already there at a sleep-over/lock-in.) We drove to Stillwater OK, where we picked up Jerome G. We went on a short tour of the OSU campus. Jerome G. claims he's caught some pretty big fish in Theta pond on campus. The reading room in the OSU library was empty when we walked in. I've been in that room many times while I was a student at OSU, and as far as I can remember today was the first time I didn't see anyone sleeping in that room. Jamie W. (I think) had the idea that it would be cool to have a room like that as the dining room of her future (hypothetical) house. I'm not sure what feature(s) she thought were important -- just the sheer size of the room alone, the amount of bookshelves (covering one wall), the nice windows (covering the opposite wall)...

When we got to Tonkawa, we paid $5.50 each to go through the maze. We divided into 2 teams (girls vs. guys). Right at the entrance, the girls took the first left.

The guys didn't walk through the maze. We took the first right and ran through the maze at full speed.

The maze contained a lot more than just the corn plants I was expecting. The tower-guy, mailboxes, clues at every dead-end, etc. The exit to the maze was a bridge that led out from a point close to the middle of the maze. (This made it a non-planar maze -- you couldn't get out merely by using the right-hand rule).

2002-09-27:DAV: passing through Corydon IN around 2pm.

2002-09-24:DAV: we visited Mount Vernon, homestead of George Washington. http://www.MountVernon.org/ I took a few photos here.

2002-09-22:DAV: We visited the National Air and Space Museum today. ... talking trash box ...

2002-09-21:DAV: bought a cool origami-like folding map of D.C. ($5.95) at the Jefferson Memorial Gift Shop in the basement of the Jefferson Memorial, in Washington D.C.

2002-09-20:DAV: bought a thimble a the ``Eastern National Independence Visitor Center''

2002-09-16:DAV: Aunt Peggy insisted that we visit the

Warther Museum
331 Karl Ave.
DOVER OH 44622

I really enjoyed it. It was pretty cool.

After we toured the museum, I bought a couple of nice kitchen knives and a couple of wooden puzzles from

Warthers
327 Karl AVE
DOVER OH 44622

I am fascinated by Mr. Warther's outlook on life. A few details:

The tour guide claimed that Mr. Warther never sold any of his carvings (although he gave many, many of them away). He supported himself selling kitchen knives and carving knives.

He also seemed to think it was important to show people how machines worked -- how all the parts moved and fit together. You could think of this as very early multimedia.

The ``plier tree'' is the earliest example of recursion I've ever seen (other than biological examples).

2002-09-16:DAV: After the museum, we drove around Amish country ... I bought a few things at Lehman's Mt. Hope http://www.Lehmans.com/

2002-09-10:DAV:

2002-09-07:DAV

I just woke up from a disturbing dream. Well, the dream itself was OK, it's just the realization I had after I woke up. I dreamed I was in a large room, with a stage up front and lots of chairs for the audience to sit. There was a feeling of motion -- perhaps there was a lot of traffic outside, or perhaps the whole room was inside a large ship. The seats were pretty much filled with people. Like most of my dreams, none of the people on the stage or in the audience were anyone I now recognize in the waking world, although while asleep I got the impression some of the people on the stage were people I had seen before.

The first speaker told us to stand up and sing a patriotic song, although (this being a dream) the words were all garbled. I had difficulty getting out of my chair -- I was carrying/wearing a lot of equipment (am I a soldier ?).

One of the speakers said

``U.S. soldiers will begin the attack on Iraq in 48 hours.''

A few people scattered around in the audience, including myself, got out of our chairs, got on our knees, and started praying -- maybe about 1 person in 20.

Then I woke up. For a moment I thought it was just a dream. Then I remembered the desert-sand-camouflage-colored military tanks I saw on a railroad flatbed car a few weeks ago when I was driving to work. And I remembered stories in the newspaper I've read recently -- George W. Bush trying to gather support for an attack on Iraq, Tony Blair insisting that something must be done and supporting any actions by the U.S., etc.

I start to wonder if I heard a real speech over my radio, and I was just dreaming the visuals. I calculate that the attack would start Monday morning. But my radio was off when I woke up, so I'm pretty sure it was just a dream. But it was a shock to realize that might be true now in the real world (the U.S. and Iraq might go to war Monday), and it was a shock that it might be even more true soon in the real world (I could be drafted, then not too many days later find myself carrying/wearing a bunch of military equipment and listening to my commander tell me I'm going to be in Iraq in 48 hours ).

So I got out of bed, got on my knees, and started praying.

I pray for wisdom. I ask God to give wisdom to the leaders in the military, including the Commander in Chief, so they could see the consequences and make a wise decision -- whether to attack or whether to call the whole thing off. I ask God to give wisdom to the soldiers in the military, so they would understand how to prepare for any and every possibility.

2002-09-04: Jason's Deli ?

...

2002-08-27:DAV:

My family has many little traditions. I think Mom started this one while I was in Oregon. On election day (such as today), Mom calls up all her sons and reminds them, gives us some suggestions on who to vote for. Then we go eat lasagna at Mom's house. We talk about the little number the machine increments when I feed in my ballot, and from those numbers we try to estimate how many people in Tulsa voted.

2002-08-26:DAV: bought folding knife for $7.95+tax at Eastland Mall. (local tax here is 7 and 11/12s percent ... truth is stranger than fiction).

.... many things happen, too busy to write about them now ...

2002-08-22: My last day of work at Motorguide. I'm pretty stunned. I didn't expect this. Bob Healey didn't give me any reasons why I lost this job.

Bob Healey hired me, and I've worked for him (sometimes indirectly through Phil Hagan) from 1999-09-07 to 2002-08-22.

2002-08-11:DAV After church, ate lunch at Applebee's with Mom, Dad, Sarah, and Mark. My turn to buy lunch this time.

2002-08-10: I woke up at the Sutton house. I was the only guest that spent the night. (I seem to remember at least 1 guest outside still talking when I went to bed, but I was too groggy to notice who it was). I think my family was relatively large -- when my Mom cooked pancakes for her husband and 4 children, Mom made several batches of batter. Mrs. Sutton cooked pancakes for her husband and me and her 7 children (or was it 8 ?) with only one batch of batter. Of course, Mrs. Sutton mixed it up in the largest bowl I've ever seen.

Simeon and Josiah had bought their Dad (Mr. Sutton) a DVD player for his birthday sometime in the previous week. They asked me to help them hook it up (you know, being an electrical engineer and all). I eventually got a movie in the DVD player to play on the TV. It would have been nice to be able to press a button to switch the TV between the DVD player and the VCR.

After leaving the Sutton house, I made a phone call that was very difficult for me. I've done some things that seemed harmless at the time, but some people have mis-interpreted them as ``signals'' in a way I did not expect.

I feel I am caught in a dilemma -- no matter what I do, I would emotionally scar a good friend.

I tried to stabilize things with the phone call, but I fear I just made things worse. I fear it's going to be mis-interpreted as more ``signals'' indicating something completely different than what I meant.

[[(added 2002-10-21): Looking back, I see I was paranoid about hurting someone's feelings. I think I was blowing the whole thing out of proportion. I want to emphasize that when I don't say anything, that is not a ``signal''. When I agree with someone, sometimes I don't say anything. When I violently disagree with someone, sometimes I don't say anything. When I'm distracted and I've completely forgotten about someone, I don't say anything. ]]

I picked up a few things at my house for the party at the Ward house. Then I went to Mom's house and visited with Mom and my sister Sarah. Sarah helped me wrap my presents. I got basically the same thing for each person -- a small dry-erase board, a small white pad, and some other semi-college-related stuff. We wrapped each item individually in colored tissue paper, then bound them together with ribbon to make a small stack for each person (*).

Then I drove to the Ward house in ___ OK. (On the way, I picked up some forks).

The party at the Ward house was a going-away party for people from Baptist Chapel who were leaving to go to college in some other city. [FIXME: list the people I gave presents to] I had presents for each of these people: Heather Day wasn't leaving, but her birthday was this week. Christie Briscoe, Jacob Boss, and Jeremy Matheny , were leaving to go to Bolivar MO. Jerome Garret and Jennifer Doris were leaving to go to OSU in Stillwater OK. Samuel Johnson was leaving to go to the University of Hawaii.

(* compare with wrappings on 2002-08-09).

2002-08-09: Well, this got complicated. Normally my weekends are pretty mundane and boring -- I come home from work friday, wash my clothes, check my email, perhaps send an email or 2, read part of a book, skim a technical magazine, go to church services, eat lunch after church with Mom and Dad, and that's about it. Hours of quiet in silence and solitude.

This weekend was very different. I left my apartment Friday morning for work, and didn't return until Saturday afternoon, and that was just to pick up supplies for the next party.

I had planned for some time to go to the big party at the Sutton house friday night. This week my friend Roy Thomas told me he asked Stephanie to marry him, ``and she said yes'' (the way he said this was funny at the time). So Tiffany invited me to a surprise birthday / engagement celebration at the Thomas house friday night. I don't think I've ever been to one of those before. Still, I don't think I would have gone if Bill and Monica hadn't encouraged me to go.

OK, we have 2 events I want to go to that both start at 6pm Friday. Now, some people would say that I can't do both. But I remember my friend Dan at OSU telling us (in one of the Navigator meetings he led) that his motto was: ``All of the pleasure, none of the guilt''. (I wonder whatever happened to Dan ?)

I showed up at the Thomas house with a small present for Roy wrapped unevenly in newspaper (* compare with wrappings on 2002-08-10).

Bill and Monica Briscoe brought their son ``little Bill''. He had just learned to walk and was pretty entertaining.

Of course Roy and his fiance Stephanie were there.

Roy's cousin and her husband drove up on a motorcycle. I wish I could remember their names.

The cake was pretty cool.

• The right half had white frosting with pure white trim, decorated with doves, and said ``Congratulations Stephanie and Roy''.
• The left half had white frosting with every color of trim, saying ``Happy 21st Birthday Roy''.

I think that's the most text I've ever seen on a cake.

We sat and talked for a long time. Mr. Thomas didn't talk much, but I learned that he had made the spicy pickles that we ate with the hamburgers.

We played a card game, then all the guests left. I was feeling pretty tired, but Mrs. Thomas encouraged me to go to the party at Sutton house anyway. (Their houses are only a few miles apart).

Several years ago I found out that I don't make good decisions when I am tired. So rather than go straight home, I went to the Sutton house. The party there was winding down, many people had already left or were leaving as I arrived. Even so, there were still at least a dozen guests there.

I had a nice talk with Carrie and Steve Gastelum there.

I don't know who pushed Greg into the swimming pool.

The Suttons generously asked me to stay the night so I wouldn't try to drive while half-asleep.

2002-08-07 and 2002-08-08: bought a few going-away-to-college gifts for the party on the 10th.

2002-08-03: Picked Sarah up at the airport. She just got back from touring Mexico including Mexico city.

2002-08-02: Ate dinner with Paul and Mark at Mom's house. We planned to pick Sarah up at the airport that night, but her flight was delayed until the next day.

2002-07-27: Motorguide Company Picnic at Safaris Sanctuary http://safariszoo.org/ . I took my Dad and Grandmom Cary. When they put animals in cages and put complicated Latin names, they sound pretty exotic. But Grandmom counted at least 9 animals there that she had on her Dad's farm when she was growing up. Of course, not all of these were ``farm animals'' -- some were what Grandmom calls ``varmints''.

2002-07-26: ``Christmas in July'' at Baptist Chapel. Took a few photos. Afterwords, I drove to the Thomas house and watched the movie ``The Peacemaker'' with Mrs. Thomas, her ``children'' Roy, Tiffany, Sarah, and another guest Stephanie A. I think the funniest part was when I'm hearing the climactic music, George Clooney's character has narrowly avoided death and rescued a cluster of ``all'' 8 nuclear bombs. Nicole Kidman's character yells at him over the radio ``That was a SS-10 ! There were 10 nuclear bombs in that cluster !'' Suddenly, the ``Guardian'' at the Thomas house kills all the sound, and displays on the screen a sanitized version of George Clooney's dialog: ``Crud.''

``quotes from The Peacemaker'' .

I think this was the first time I'd ever been to the Thomas house.

2002-07-20: St. Louis Bread Company http://www.PassionForBread.com/

2002-07-17:DAV: donated blood to Red Cross

2002-07-04: celebrated Independence day at Paul Cary's house. (umm... but I also have memories of watching the movie "Black Hawk Down" with Mark, Paul, Sylvia, Mom, Dad, etc. in Dad's back yard, hearing the neighbor's set off the occasional firework, and cranking the speakers to let the neighbors hear gunshots and helicopters. Maybe that was 2002-07-03 ?).

worked with Mark, Paul, etc. at Sylvia's house.

2002-07-02:DAV: celebrated Independence day at Sutton house.

2002-04-29: bought $59.99 wooden 5 tier bookcase ...

2001-10-30 T 14:00 : Cox cable install.

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