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5:47pm CST Friday 5 January 2001

Today during work:

• I fixed an _ERROR_=1 problem on one of my old projects. I'm not sure why the error suddenly appeared, but it did, and now it's fixed.

• Erika, Karla and I walked to Subway to get lunch for 5 people including ourselves. Karla related some amazing stories of coincidence or synchronicity. My favorite: Kevin worked 1 day per week at a hospital. Kevin's friend (call him Ralph) wanted to call Kevin on the phone, so he dialed Kevin's normal work number to find out what was the number where Kevin worked at the hospital. Turns out that Ralph misdialed the phone number to Kevin's normal work and called the nurses' station at the hospital just as Kevin was walking by.

  Erika pointed out another amazing thing on the wallpaper of Subway. On a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge, three people standing on the bridge are Erika and her family when they happened to be walking across the bridge. It was difficult to make out their faces on the bridge considering that their heads were the size of a single pixel on the image, but it's still pretty cool.

  On the way to and from Subway, Erika and I were reciting various hip hop lyrics - "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot and "It's Tricky" by Run DMC.

  Today is Erika's last day at work before she returns to school on Monday. We have something like a sibling relationship as we pick on each other all the time. She commented happily to her mom that working with us is *finally* allowing her to have older siblings! I will miss her. I gave her a big hug when she left.

• I drove to pick up my (borrowed) (repaired) unicycle at the Schwinn Shop. Only $16 to repack the bearings and stuff. I'm guessing it was all labor charges. I'm thankful to have it fixed correctly.

• After picking up the uni, I walked over to Paint This!, where Jennifer now works (instead of The Mad Potter) where I first met her. Just wanted to say HI and stuff so I did. She expressed that she was pretty tired after the holidays and that her cat Tarantuala is *this big* now, instead of being a kitten. Big hugs and great to see her.

• Renee wrote me back!

  I first met Renee about 1993 or 1994 when I was an O-Team (Orientation Team) Leader at UH. She was going through orientation as a freshmen and I was giving campus tours. I was famous for giving 3 hour tours, literally to anywhere and everywhere on campus if someone wanted such an experience. If I remember correctly, Jason (not Jason who I've mentioned lately) joined us on this tour, and Renee was one of the "tourists." We went everywhere and in the end, landed at a party by the campus swimming pool.

  She subsequently lived in The Quad and we hung out a lot one or two semesters.

  Anyway, I hadn't talked to or seen her in thousands of days, but I recently got her email address from Katy (kinda via Fred) and Renee wrote me back starting her email with,

  Well hello, rabbit-boy!

  Heeheee!!! So cute! She's in town; I plan to say HI to her soon.

Tonight, Wende and I are hosting our gang's Gift Exchange Party at our house. Maggie just called and said they would be 30 (or more) minutes late. Wende says, "good," because she's not ready. :-)

party

10:24pm Friday 5 January 2001

The gift exchange party has been fabulous. We started with incredible delicacies made by Meredith, Maggie, Molly, Wende and happy fun converstation for all. Dinner exceeded all the best expectations.

After dinner we got all the perfect gifts because we all told the group what gift we wanted. (Except for Will, who wanted a total surprise and didn't specify any gift. He got The Matrix on DVD. I asked for the latest NIN album, things falling apart. I'll use it to help me concentrate at work. I also got a boomerang, apparently which I had way back in 1993 and stuff, but had left it at their house and now it's finally gotten back to me!

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Meredith says:

Married sex is so good!

Eric says

If you're interested in uh, not just music but criticism of music, then heavy.com is a little vulgar but they do a top 10 countodown and they do their top ten suckiest songs and rip up on the artists and the particular song. the whole website is flash. that's what's cool about it.

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I confessed to Meredith that I didn't buy her present; Wende bought it for me. However, I wanted to make a something for Meredith, but didn't know what she would want. Now I know that she would love a hand painted plate. That is what I shall make for her. I don't yet have a design in mind.