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soml 22 sep 1998

Tuesday 22 September 1998

STATE OF MY LIFE

1. I have mostly recovered from losing my hard drive, and I am more careful to archive the documents I update regularly. However(!) my disply adapter is only running at 640x480 pixels and 16 colors! I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get it to do more. Kinda hard to scan pics this way!
2. I had fun at gymnastics tonight - did roundoff back flips and got some that were pretty high compared to normal for me. I bounced lots on the trampoline too.
   Oh and it was weird since I wore my glasses there; I can't tumble with them on, so I was essentially tumbling blind, or at least very blurry. Kinda fun!
3. I quit my part time job today. Now It's just me and MR Laboratories, my web design company! I'm nervous and excited all at once! I opened my business bank account and have tons of tax forms and all kinds of craziness. Come on by www.mrlaboratories.com to see my site there!
4. My dad gave me a clock that we've dubbed "the ball clock." It has an arm that picks up a marble from the bottom and drops it into the top of the clock once per minute. With a few simple weighted levers, the balls line up and keep track of time.

   This clock has been in our family for years.. Probably like 15 or 20 years. It's been dormant at my dad's house for as many as 10 years; it's been with my brother for some years, and my brother gave it back to my dad, and my dad gave it to me.

   Yay!! I enjoyed watching the clock do its thing for a few weeks.

   Yesterday I ripped out the assembly of troughs that guide the marbles to their appropriate levers, which I left intact. My goal is to rebuild the troughs with popsicle sticks!

   Really. Don't laugh! I can do this, and maybe I'll get pics of it on here (I've been promising a lot of pics on my site lately, haven't I?)

5. Over the weekend I had a Beastie Boys marathon, listening to all their albums over and over, especially _Hello Nasty_, which I really enjoy.
6. Spot, my cat of two years, has been more talkative lately. He still jumps out the second story window to a branch to go outside, and comes back the same way. I just thought I'd mention him.
7. Starting the second weekend of October, I'll be busy for 6 weekends in a row. Wow.. That includes driving to San Antonio, Lake Texoma (on the border of Texas and Oklahoma, hence the name), and a drive to and from Tulsa. Crazy!