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6pm Friday 19 October 2001

Katy just asked if I was okay; I hadn't written an entry in 5 days.

I'm not exactly okay; we are really moving out and working on selling the house and stuff like that. A guy is coming over tomorrow to see if he wants to buy it; if he does, we don't have to pay a realtor. So he's getting a discount price. Wanna buy a house? Email or call me soooon for details.

Last night Wende expressed frustration that I wasn't helping with the moving out process, which includes cleaning the house and finding another place to live. So today I cruised the internet for a bit and found an apartment that I like, near my work. Darn close. Walking distance.

I dunno if I'll live there or not; and don't even know how soon I should move out; it would be a pain to maintain two "house" payments. The apartment is a several dollar savings, so I'd sock away a significant part of the rest toward my retirement.

So when I told Wende that I had likely found a place for me to live, she got all quiet on the phone. I was like, "what?" and she said that it felt sudden or something like that. Not too much I can do to make things right, it seems.

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Couple nights ago, Dude and I took a bunch of pictures for humanclock.com, but dagnabbit, we should have checked the website which now shows that they have a bunch of pics already for the time range we photographed (11:43pm - 11:57pm)

Our pics were quite creative and unique though - we took them while standing on or riding the plexiglass cows of Cow Parade Houston. We got one cool pic of the time being reflected in a small pond in Sam Houston Park in downtown. Good stuff.

At the end of the night, we visited the dandelion fountain on Allen Parkway and *just* as we were poised to take the picture, the fountain turned off. Doh!!!! The water was still dripping thoroughly from the tubes when the pic was taken. Funny.

So, since the water wasn't spraying, I got in the fountain for the pic. The water was *SO COLD*!!! Maybe not for you northerners, but damn it was freezing to me. I'm not sure why it was so much colder than the pond had been, but I'm guessing that by spraying the water through the air, it cooled it off a lot more than just by convection. That's got to be why.

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Tonight our ultimate team had tentative plans to go to a haunted house, but no one wanted to tonight, so I was going to go to Astroworld with Jennifer (from Paint This!) and her friends, but when I called Wende to ask 'permission,' she wasn't available, and so I'm not there now, but I'm writing this entry.

By permission I mean making sure that she wouldn't be totally distraught that I was going and that we could afford the cost. Silly, I know.

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At work, my latest project is basically stable, although I just found a bug with the email-producing code I had written. Fortunately I found it before the emails were sent out. Took me a moment to figure out how to adjust the where-clause for the SQL, but I got it right on the first try. (and by first try, I mean second try, because it obviously didn't work the first time I wrote it a few days ago)