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AM

6:56am Wednesday 23 May 2001

Last night at work I was able to get "back to work," and even inspired myself enough to do some work this morning from home.

Wende and I both had the night off last night, and will for the next several Tuesdays probably, as Spanish has been moved to Monday nights. We just went to bed (and to sleep) early.

Cool code

1pm Wednesday 23 May 2001

I just moved online some pretty cool code that allows me to modify the dates in a dataset over the web. Granted, there are certainly tools that will do this, but we are still in a mode where every bit of SAS is written by hand, and every bit of the HTML displayed is written by SAS written by hand.

This is for the G3 Admin site that I created.

I'm about to test some code for sending some reminder emails and then I might fix a bug in some code and then I will hopefully have time to learn AppDev Studio, which should supercede the by-hand programming style.

almost OKC

3:26pm Wednesday 23 May 2001

T minus 16 days to Oklahoma City Rally! OKC is one of my favorite rallies; I just *love* the actual church building - so great for playing sardines!!

This is also the church that sports a lovely tennis ball lodged in a vent outside, two stories above the parking lot, inadvertantly thrown there by me in 1987 while we were playing butts up!

Yes, yes, 1987.

That was the year we actually attended Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday night! It was my first Rocky Horror, but I had my hair spiked, and apparently fit in enough to have one of the stage actors ask me if I could fill in one of the parts! I politely declined the offer. I also did not go up on stage when they asked for Rocky Horror virgins. (shhh)

Back in those rally days, 50 or 60 people was a good sized rally, and we had rally virgin initiations, which were made to sound scarier than they actually were. I had been initiated at Houston rally a couple years back. At OKC 1987, I got to lead some of the initiations.

My hair was still spiked from Rocky Horror night, and I was wearing Troy's mirrored shades.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the questions of the initiation exactly. Basically we put all the rally virgins in a room and bring one virgin into the initiation room at a time. Everyone else is watching, and the virgin is put up on "stage", made to stand in a chair under a spotlight.

The initiator (me or whoever) asks a bunch of questions, maybe "what is your name?" "why are you here?" "what talents do you have?" "are you a virgin?" etc.

Then when they're done asking questions they say something like, "according to (whatever) Magazine, the reactions you have displayed here are the same reactions as you have/will display in your first sexual experience. You may sit down."

And everyone claps and then the initiate gets to watch the rest of the initiations.

And that's the way it was.

But the point is, OKC in 16 days!!!

journal

9:47pm Wednesday 23 May 2001

I just added a bunch of YRUU peeps to my friends list on my livejournal.com account.

There's pretty much a lot of cool shit that livejournal can do that my site cannot do. But there's a lot of shit on my site that livejournal can't do. So I'm not going to move all my shit to livejournal, because there's just *so* *much*!

I'd like to have an even faster way of updating and editing entries on my site; I might build myself a web based editor to make changes and stuff. That will be very fly.

I am kinda sorta closing in on adding a search utility to my journal, so people can find stuff in the pile of entries. I'm using a websearch.cgi that was free when I first downloaded it, but the lastest version of which is shareware for $25. When I get it all working I'll pay the author.

Speaking of $, I have toyed with the idea of adding one of the Amazon.com whatchamacallits (hang on) Amazon Honor System, except for this caveat:

Web sites collecting money with the Honor System are assessed 15% of your payment plus a fixed cost of $.15 per transaction.

Part of me is all, "how can I possibly think that people would enjoy my site enough to pay anything for it?" In fact, that's most of me, not just part of me. I greatly believe information should be free. Maybe when I write a book online, I'll add a Honor payment thing on the site. Who knows?

It's 10 pm now; I'm going home. Wende should just now be getting off work (which is why I'm here at work this late)

Oh! Wende and I went to lunch today. I'll write a separate entry for it called 23lunch.html.

lunch

10:05 pm Wednesday 23 May 2001

Today I quit workin' around 5pm to go to lunch with Wende. Her day at work was from 7-9am (for a meeting) then her regular shift from 12-10pm. Such a sucky long day... it was my pleasure to go see her during her lunch.

I hung out in the store reading a book about web design before she was ready to leave. Talked to Chad, a guy who works with Wende, and just recently became a DJ at KTRU! He was interested and I invited him to apply... he got it! His shift is 5am to 8am on Mondays. I listened to the first hour of his first shift; it went well. He had the appropriate number and types of mistakes that most new DJs seem to have. Actually, he had very few mistakes. Great show!

Anyway, Wende and I went to James Coney Island, where I got little corn dog bites and a vanilla shake. JCI vanilla shakes !RULE!. I love them! They're like slightly melted vanilla ice cream with extra sugar. Awww yeah.

Wende looked through a wedding catalog, looking at different invitations and different crap we could buy for the wedding. Some was crap, some was not.

For some reason I was suddenly reminded of a funny line from last week's Futurama:

Everyone took a field trip to the edge of the universe, and Fry put a quarter in the telescope to look over the edge of the universe to a parallel universe.

Fry: "You mean there's an infinte number of parallel universes?"

Professor: "No, just the two. There wasn't enough room for any more."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!! I love that line!

Wende didn't think it was quite as funny as I think it is.

Okay, I'm going home now for real.