Monthly Archives: April 2001

It is so weird how Matt and I have distance ourselves apart. Now he is getting all of his computer help from Casey. Not that I care or anything. It looks like he finally got his network card for his laptop. Listening to their conversations, he is getting to know Napster better. But it’s come to the point where he wont even talk to me now. He just grunts at me.
And Justin. Justin has a gas problem. Every morning before he wakes up, he farts. And when he takes a shower, he rips a couple out too. He’s done this for a week now. God I miss Tim. Yes, this is the same flamboyant gay Tim that woke me up at 2am in the morning with his telephone call to his friend in Texas about the fashion crisis that he had. But even with crap like that, Tim had to have been one of the best roommates I have had in college. Not just becaue he could clean, but because I could talk and conversate with him.
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Current music: Dwight Yoakam – Try Not To Look So Pretty

Random Livejournal sucks…..
All it brings up are the newest journals. And they all seem to be journal of 16 y.o. girls. The first couple weren’t bad; reading about crushes on this guy and why that girl is a bitch. But after a while (a quick while) it gets really old.
My computer sucks also….
Not the one that I’m getting made, but the Gateway that I’m using now. I has been freezing up and crashing at a nonstop pace. I am SO ready to get rid of it. Maybe my family will have more luck with it than I’m having with it.
Still resisting the urge to hook up the monitor and the scanner. But damn, my eyes are so ready for those 3 extra inches of viewable monitor space.
Current mood: content
Current music: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Soundtrack

Looking back at my New Year’s Resolutions thinking about how far have I gone with them, if I am keeping any of them at all….
1. Exercise – **sigh** Well, yes and no. I have started to eat healthier now. I’m gotten some fruit and breads into my life and have def. cut back on the red meat. Not that I haven’t enjoyed a good steak once in awhile. And I do drink more juice than soda now.
But when I have hit the junk food, I have hit it hard with major binges. And I have gotten little pure water into my diet.
2. Budgeting. I did have the budget going on, and I was making good progress….
But this month I have just let it go. I haven’t balanced my account for a couple of weeks now. And I had to raid the savings to cover my checking account. Looks like I will have to wait a little longer for the down payment for a car.
3. Exercise. O. K. That whole dream of doing sit ups and pushups started and ended in Seattle during Xmas. The Aikido class gets my heart pumping and I break into a sweat. And I don’t think that I’ve really gained any pounds. It’s just that I haven’t lost any either. Well, Tae-bo is just around the corner; we’ll see how that works out for me. I’ve also thought about maybe doing Slimfast, but that stuff is expensive
4. Computer Time – ehh. I don’t think I spent as much aimless time on the computer. But I probably still spend too much time altogether on the internet. But, I’ve def. cut back on my game playing.
5. Web Site – I’ve just haven’t the time or energy to design and build a new web site. Once school is over maybe this summer, I can spend more time on it
6. Sex – HA!!!!!
7. Digital Camera – I have been using the camera a bit more. I did kinda stop doing the photos every week thing. But I think that’s something that I am going to start up again, after I get my new computer.
8. Sleeping – I have started going to sleep a bit earlier. The latest that I stay up now is 1am. I’m sure if I had a Creative Nomad, I could get to sleep earlier. (heh, heh, I wish)
9. Car Care – HA!!!!!!
10. Reading – I have started reading a little more now. NOTHING like I used to read. Again, this summer, I hope to pick up more speed and read more. Maybe I should find a book club to join?
11. Clothes – Still haven’t really pulled myself out of dark colors and white tshirts.
12. Friends – This one I have really failed at. I did see so long lost friends finally, like Mia, Lesa, and Kurt. But I have been really bad at emailing, telephoning, and visiting people. And I hate to blame it on work and stuff, but I do. Hopefully I can soon do some much needed catching up.
13. CD Collection – The CD collection is coming along nicely. I am almost ready for my 2nd 256CD Case. Still no Cure though.
14. Computer Games. This is one that I have def. kept. Of course I have been too busy to really buy any.
15. Dealing with Issues – Still no health insurance. But I have dealt with some of the things that haunt me. Confronted might be a better word. Anyway, no word on when I will get coverage so I can see a shrink.
16. Study – I have been studying, just not well.
17. Frendly towards the bookstore staff – I have also kept this one too. Because I am master of my own domain at the warehouse, I am hardly at the store to terrorize the hapless peons. Few, if any fear me; most of the new staff don’t know of me. **sigh** Let the tiger romp in his lair far away from the others, I guess.
Current mood: content
Current music: Co Co Lee – A Love Before Time (English)

Let’s combine the Taurus horoscope with the Tiger horoscope
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Taurus
April 21 To May 21
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Taurus — April 21 – May 21
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April Twenty-Fourth
The Day Of The Protective Chronicler
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By The Associated Press,
Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2001. There are 251 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 24, 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.
On this date:
In 1792, the national anthem of France, “La Marseillaise,” was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
In 1898, Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America’s ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I.
In 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The uprising was put down by British forces several days later.)
In 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
In 1968, leftist students at Columbia University in New York began a week-long occupation of several campus buildings.
In 1970, the People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite, which repeatedly transmitted a song, “The East is Red.”
In 1980, the United States launched an abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
In 1986, Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, for whom King Edward VIII had given up the British throne, died in Paris at age 89.
In 1990, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying the .5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
Ten years ago: A Kurdish rebel leader announced the guerrillas had reached an agreement in principle with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to end the Kurds’ two-week rebellion.
Five years ago: The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel. Negotiators for Congress and the White House agreed on a permanent budget for fiscal year 1996.
One year ago: Concerned about the disappearance of a laptop computer with highly sensitive documents, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a five-point plan to help guard against such lapses in the future. A teen-age gunman opened fire at Washington’s National Zoo, wounding seven children.
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Thought For Today
“To change and to improve are two different things.”
German proverb.
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