Friday, 23rd of November, 2001
The Turkey Bowl is a big deal with Kirkwood and Webster Groves High Schools, and Andrea and I got to witness some of that at the varsity hockey game today. Then later tonight, I helped Beth babysit her neighbours, as they had requested a guy to join her for the evening. It was relatively smooth, the typical children-going-to-bed routines. Then I proceded to join Jim in checking out Club Liquid in downtown St. Louis. It was actually very nice, as DJ Dan was in town, and it was a really nicely done party. Ridiculously thumping bass, tons of smoke, soap, bubbles, confetti, lasers, lights... it was nice.
Thursday, 22nd of November, 2001
I spent the rest of the day fighting with Windows 2000's networking features, as I had upgraded Dad's computer from Win98 SE, and I needed the Internet Connection Sharing to work. I did get the Panasonic DVD-RAM drive to work properly, though, and it's very nice, as we're using it to backup data. I also bought a SIIG Fast-SCSI-2 card for it, since it's a SCSI drive, and the label on the anti-static bag was so interesting I stuck it on my cell phone.
Wednesday, 21st of November, 2001
My parents have been going without a working VCR for a while, so we finally fixed that at Circuit City today. We were already set on getting the Hitachi VTFX665A, and there happened to be an open-box one there for $66! So we definitely got that, and to not feel so obsolete, we also got the Apex AD-1500 DVD player for $90. S-Video is a good thing, and I didn't even know our ProScan TV had S-Video inputs until I got home. Woah!
Then I went back to campus to clean my room. That involved some interesting things, like a paper cup of fermented grape juice.
Tuesday, 20th of November, 2001
Monday, 19th of November, 2001
This afternoon, Beth and Andrea gave me a needed haircut, and it's actually a pretty short one this time, but I like it.
Later tonight, Joe had a craving for off-campus food, so we went to Steak and Shake. Then we were involved in the moving of a 6-foot-tall letter "E" from the "EN WEEK" sign originally on top of the Olin library. It just barely wouldn't fit in the Cavalier, so we walked it back. Yes, that would be down Forsyth, across campus and the South 40. But now there's this huge "E" in Joe's room! It took us until halfway there to figure out the optimal way to carry it too, which is, to carry it sideways on our shoulders. It was hilarious!
Sunday, 18th of November, 2001
