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first days off

2:30am Wednesday 24 June 1998

On Monday, my first day without work, I went to Kathy Fey's, to get body work done. She did cranio-sacral balancing this time. (she also does massage and reiki and other stuff)

Back at home, I chilled and helped Robin with some computer questions and slept and read the first chapter of Contact by Carl Sagan.

Today I got up and researched The Right Step's ISP to see how I can help them get their page looking cooler. I met with them at 9:30 Tuesday morning and it looks like I will be soon working for them!

I tried to figure out how to use MS Front Page, but I couldn't see how to make it use flash.net as my proxy server instead of remote-nugen. I don't know what the problem is.

Then I drove toward the dentist but got a flat tire on the way and while changing it found a lug nut had been cross-threaded when it was mounted last time. I cross-threaded another lug nut trying to fix the first one and finally drove to Discount Tire Company, who fixed my flat but wouldn't mount the tire because the lug bolts were stripped.

So I drove to the nearby Toyota dealership who charged $106.58 to fix the two lug bolts but said they wouldn't "help me" cover the price because it was a different Toyota dealership that cross-threaded the bolts in the first place.

Fine. So I wrote a letter to the other dealership, asking for at least 1/2 of my cost reimbursed.
(7 July 1998 I received this response.)

I got home at 4pm after having 3.5 hours wait time to read more Contact.

I picked up my new glasses from my optometrist and Wende and I went to her apartment to munch Taco Bell.

To gymnastics I went after a nap and came back and did email and stuff and that's when I wrote the above mentioned letter.

Then I decided that I oughta pack for my upcoming 1 week trip to Rochester, New York (flight leaves in 6 hours).

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General Assembly

24 June 1998

Wende and I were 40 minutes late flying out of Hobby Airport for Detroit. That wasn't so bad; I was in a great mood and not in a tremendous rush to get anywhere.. I was in vacation mode. Whee!

Got to Detroit at 1:15pm and easily made our connecting flight that was to leave at 1:45.

Yup, we made the flight. Sat in our seats.

There we were, waiting to take off.. anytime you're ready, Mr Captain.

Okay.. we're all on the plane with our seat belts fastened.

The flight was cancelled. They couldn't get the air conditioning to work, and said therefore there would be not only no cool air, but no cabin pressure in the plane. That would be bad.

No plane was sent to replace the one we were on.. Just "sorry" and we were on our own.

I'll save you the pain... but we were at the airport for 8 hours. I bought a Popular Science magazine and read about UFOs and other science stuff.

Around 8pm I sat by a woman who spoke fluent Japanese and very little English. She showed me the first 11 Japanese numbers from zero to ju, and how to write "thank you" and "Tokyo" (Toukiyou) and it was quite a grand time. I got her snail address and probably will write to her.
I can write "thank you" and "tokyo" 11 times and number them!

transcribed out of my diary

11pm We got to Rochester.  finally.
No checked luggage though; it will
be delivered to the hotel in the morning

Talked to Drake Baer and turns out 
he also quit his professional job to pursue
youth advising.  It's great to see Tera and 
meet Joey Lyons.

It's 01:15 or so Thursday 25 June 1998.
Welcome to General Assembly.