Entries this day: Dream Shelfa hanoi

Dream

7:27am CST Saturday 23 December 2000

(dream)

Criscrossing the united states vertically up and down all the highways seeing every inch of the country, lights lit up behind the path as if watching the progress on a movie.

Driving on the highway, in a new city, not quite sure where we are, but seeing new sights and seeing a car accident, a wrecker towing a truck with a trailer, all 3 vehicles turned upside down on the highway. We arrived in a prking lot and saw a woman who we had met in previous travels. I hadn't been able to meet her son before, but now I did.

"He's the one who came back across the United States to thank every individual who helped him," she told her son about me.

I had essentially hitchhiked across the united states, at least from Texas to California and met tons of cool people and gotten all their addresses and then drove back to each of their houses to say "thank you" after it was all done, making for the most amazing road trip ever.

Now I was next to Wende in the car and of all people, Fred arrived.. My brother with his new girlfriendd from school. I was in a total state of LOVE and joy beyond description laughing unalterably pure happiness.

I met his girlfriend by tilting back in the seat so I saw her upside down and she was all, "Whaaassssaaaaaaaaaaaappp!" and playing silly and Fred had two earrings. We were all, "whaddya wanna do?" and I suggested we see that recent movie that just came out, and I named it. They were like, "okay,"

then I woke up. I can't think of the name of the movie now.

Shelfa

5:17pm CST Saturday 23 December 2000

Today Wende and I installed Elfa shelves in my study over the blue desk-thing. They look great! All my pictures that I will put in scrapbooks and all my letter writing stuff sits nicely on the shelves. In storage at the very top, I have my old DOS 286 computer from back in 1992 or so. That's the one where the monitor switch failed so I installed a pull-chain light switch in its place.

Also great news today! Bryn has her plane tickets to visit me an' Wende while we are visiting Irene and Nick for their wedding in Melbourne in February! Bryn is essentially in the middle of 1 year as an exchange student in Brisbane Australia.

Tonight is KTRU night for me. I'm going to visit work for a bit beforehand to pick up some CDs that I reviewed. I swilled them. ("swill" is our term for "reject because the CD sucks.")

hanoi

5:31pm CST Saturday 23 December 2000

I am silly silly silly.

emacs rules. emacs, being the wonderful godsend of an editor, knows how to play the tower of hanoi. I just type M-x hanoi and it will quickly run through a 7 ring tower of hanoi thing.

I just put a few cool ideas together:

1. emacs can play hanoi.

2. linux has a virtual desktop that is 2x2 computer screens in size.

I expanded emacs to a pretty huge size and asked it to play hanoi with 60 rings. Sixty. I started it 5 minutes ago, and it has just now uncovered the eighth ring from the first stack. It's 5:38pm.

17:53

Now emacs has uncovered the tenth ring.

I'm going to shower, then KTRU, then ultimate frisbee at UH.

18:26

emacs is working to remove the twelfth ring. I'm leaving now for KTRU.

23:31

KTRU was fun. Three hour shift instead of two because it's the winter semester. I got a call at 9:30pm for Lizzie, who would normally be at the station from 9 to 11. I told the guy she wouldn't be there until after January 23.

emacs is working to get the fifteenth ring off.

23:58

emacs is still working to get the fifteenth ring off, but I'm going to stop it. Not because I'm bored with it, but because I did a little research and found that the "original" story from India is that some guys were solving the tower of hanoi problem with sixty-four rings. It would be preposterous for me to have my computer spend all its brain power and just do sixty rings. So I'm going to start it over with sixty-four.