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EightBall

8:59am Tuesday 9 January 2001

Awesome: http://8ball.federated.com.

I have just spent several minutes reading and watching this site.

I got to work all early today so I can leave early so Wende and I can go to our Spanish class tonight. I still haven't gotten any work done yet, though. Doh! I've been reading my personal email and reading RCFoC (where I got the Magic 8 Ball link). Okay, now I'm going to work work work on the latest incarnation of the Ritz Project.

crisis

2:22 Tuesday 09 January 2001

Had a crisis at work - Kevin has some reports on his machine and when he sent out a bunch of emails to have people visit his machine to get their reports, the machine couldn't handle the load. So we had to redirect all the traffic to a different machine that didn't have the drive space, but could otherwise handle the load. Now each request that comes in will copy the report from Kevin's machine to the other machine and they cansee the report.

espanol

10:00pm CST Tuesday 9 January 2001

Wende and I both relatively zipped home from work, and I couldn't find the registration forms (including driving directions) to the Spanish class! So distraught, not wanting to be late, having looked so forward to attending the class.... I looked all over the house, called Kevin at work, had him look for them on my desk, nowhere to be found. Wende arrived home and even she could not find them.

I determined they must be at work, so we drove there and found them on my desk, under some other papers on a clipboard. Kevin had looked partway through them, but not all the way.

We were late to class, and pretty much got lost finding the building, but only missed the "theory" part of the class, describing different ways people learn. As far as I can tell, we were there for all the language part of it.

Cool stuff, learning by labeling items - toy cups, cars, telephones, chocolate... I'll practice:

sugar azucar
coffee cup tazo
milk leche
chocolate chocolate
telephone tele'fono
candy dulce
cream crema
tea te'
coffee cafe'
knife cuchillo
spoon caracha
fork tenedor

Hahahah So I just visited www.studyspanish.com because I couldn't remember the translation for fork. I see that I mistranslated spoon, which should be cuchara.

It's possible that we'll be in a class that meets for the next 8 Tuesdays (except that we'll be in Australia for 2 weeks) with Tessy, our instructor tonight. She will call us tomorrow whether or not that will work out.

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After class, Wende and I visited Mission Burrito for dinner. So yummy!!