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installed linux

2:00am Friday 12 June 1998

Tonight after work, I began installing RedHat Linux v5.0 using the book SAMS Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours.

The whole thing was so incredibly easy that.. wow. I am really impressed and really pleased.

It's actually only to the point that I can log in to my machine and choose between 6 different text terminals and run XWindows, but it sure is fresh.

I look forward to being able to surf the web and stuff, and maybe, just maybe (hopefully!!!) getting The Feel Good Net happening again. That will rule.

Have a good night; I'm going to bed.

oh wait.. Wende and I went to see the movie Truman starring Jim Carrey. That's the one where he lives in a virtual world that literally revolves around him.

The concept was pretty wacky wild to my brain, and I enjoyed the idea.

Carrey's character is not as insipid as some of the other roles he's played; I enjoyed seeing him fill well and more real, more complete person.

mucky duck

1:40am Friday 12 June 1998

Last night (Wednesday night) I went to the Mucky Duck and hung out with Christine and some of my old friends who I haven't seen in 4 or 5 years since my days hanging out in the dorms at University of Houston.

We talked about all variety of stuff and barely caught glimpses of each other's lives.. They've been seeing each other at Mucky Duck each Wednesday for some time now, so it was catch up time for me.

Most wonderful for me was to see Melanie, on whom I had a tremendous crush back in the day (and I never told her).. and the reason it was so cool to see her is that I was able to talk to her coherently. My tongue worked correctly and my brain worked correctly, and everything was all good. I still think she's worthy of a crush, but at least now I can see her also as a person, and as an equal.
Nice.

Then Christine and I were gonna go to The Brewery Tap, and she left and I went to my car and oops... I was blocked in by another car.

So I went inside to ask the guys on stage (therefore with microphones) to ask whoever it was to move their car. As I walked up there, bing!, I saw Chris, who I met at Studios and Stages two months ago! How wonderfully random to re-link with him... it was especially cool because he is just about to move back to Canada; I saw him like a week before he and his wife leave.

A few minutes passed and I went back to my car and was still blocked in, but lo, it turns out there had been a person in the culprit-car the whole time. Wow.

My brain did a happy floop, noticing how the details of my life were meshing, unfolding beautifully before me. I love it!

I drove to The Brewery Tap, where I met someone who shall (at least for the time being) remain nameless, and I talked with her 'till 3am. It was all nice and stuff and we didn't kiss until I drove her to her house and she invited me in and we ate ice cream and though my more-patient-more-thoughtful brain said "no," we ended up kissing and having sex but it was pretty crummy cause it was 5am and I was so fucking tired (no pun intended).

I got home by 6am and didn't feel too hot about myself or the whole situation and I crashed until 9:30 when the sun felt pretty hot and I had to get up and go to work anyway.

Ug.

one week countdown

11:45am Friday 12 June 1998

So here I am at work, chillin' like Bob Dylan with one week left here. ("I'm just chillin' like Bob Dylan" is from Beastie Boys' "3-Minute Rule" from Paul's Boutique CD. (find lyrics at www.lyrics.ch) It's my favorite quote lately.)

So anyway, I'm here and have finished my current project and I have essentially nothing to do. So I've been cleaning up my email inbox and forwarding to my personal account what messages I think I'll want to keep.. I'm listening to Beastie Boys right now (I was inspired by my top paragraph) and yeah.

So, will I be bored when I quit? Probably. Well, maybe bored is the wrong word. I will have to learn to restructure my time and essentially figure out a time budget. I will definitely have more time and more freedom and less security and yeah.

I'm excited and I'm scared and I'll keep you informed through these journal entries.

I'm greatly considering getting The Feel Good Net going again; I will definitely have the time to do it; I'll just need to move my mailing list off my old school account from University of Houston to my personal computer at home.

I think I'll do that now. Hang on.

Wow.. it's now 14:26; I've been moving stuff off that account for 2+ hours. Just mailing to my current account tons of messages. I think I will create a new portion of this website: one for holding those messages that float around the internet.. I've got several and I think I'll start a tiny archive here on my site.