As per usual, a lot has happened since my last blog entry. I figure it’s about time I update my blog before I forget or lose what little ability I once had to write.

The events were as follows: (In no particular order, and certainly not in chronological order)

1. I saw NIN in Atlanta. I was mostly happy with the concert. It was too short (Trent only played for a little over an hour), most of the songs I wanted to hear were played, and a few I didn’t expect but was pleased to hear (Burn, for example).
Songs I wished he played: Right where it belongs & The perfect drug (though this song can’t be done live).

Also, Wish was one of the first songs he played.. I think this was the wrong order.. Wish should have been saved till he got the energy level of the crowd up.. People would have gone nuts if he worked up to that song..

2. My car died. After 140,000 miles it finally has gone away… and not in a good way.. Barbara was driving it at the corner of West End and Blakemore when the transmission stopped working totally. It’s particularly annoying because the engine still runs perfectly, but there’s no way to transfer the power to the rules. I somehow managed to get the car parked in front of my former apartment (see bullet 3)

3. I got kicked out of my apartment… They are going to knock it down to build fancy new apartments.. I do not like this. That place had style and character. Now it will be sterile and upscale. As an added bonus, my car died during the week I was moving. That made the move extra fun. Try it some time.

4. I’m now living with Jeff and McCall. Things have been great here. It feels much more like living in a home.. I actually like staying in and don’t feel compelled to run out all the time. Thus far I’ve been able to get much more work done than usual, which is a great feeling. Thank you Jeff&McCall for letting the homeless guy move in for some time.

5. Last week, with no car, I was trapped out here in Antioch, but I got a great deal of work done. This week, Dan has graciously lent me his car (while he has chosen to ride a bike to work) so that I can actually go into work. That guy rules. So does actually being able to get to school when I need to.

6. Dan will be moving to Japan in a month. I will be taking care of his car while he is gone. This is the reason I can’t just go buy a new car right now. Instead I have to rely on the graciousness of people to get my ass from here to school and back sometimes.

7. Barbara is in China right now. She is currently in Xi’An going to see the (terracotta warriors)[http://www.terracottawarriors.co.uk/]. If you havent heard of them, its an army of over 6000 life-size clay statues of warriors. The interseting thing is that each stature has a unique face. According to the link above, the guy made over 70,000 people build his tomb and warriors, and his 3000 wives went to the grave with him. Think about that for a second, 3000 wives. That means that he had so many wives that he could sleep with a different one every day of the year for almost 10 years without repeating once. That’s totally incomprehensible to me.

8. I installed Tiger on my laptop yesterday. It’s working great and I’m impressed. The only thing I’ve found is that my NVIDIA video card won’t do coreimage which includes that cool water ripple effect that is supposed to happen when you set widgets down. Oh well.

That’s pretty much it for now. I’m in antioch and I have no car most of the time. Oh and my cell phone only sometimes works here, so if I don’t answer it’s probably not because I’m ignoring you.