Monday, September 25, 2000

* On friday I went to The MacStore to find a cable for that Quadra. I was warned about the prices there, and sure enough they wanted twenty to forty dollars for an adapter. The lady that helped me was nice enough to make a copy of the switch settings for the adapter they carried so I could play with the adapter I have at home. I didn’t realize until I was home that the sheet showed eight switches and mine only has six. ::argh:: I fiddled with it for a while before finally noticing that my 17″ AOC monitor actually has three different inputs on the back: standard VGA, composite RGB and what appears to be a Mac interface!!! So sometime this week I will go get a simple mac cable and try that!
* Friday night we went to Logan’s first Cub Scout meeting and met the new leaders. They also raised quite a bit of money for the pack with a raffle of cakes that were brought in by the families of a particular den. This was our den’s turn so we brought an Oreo cake that Faith purchased (they no longer allow hand-baked goods- what has this world become?)
* Mark finally updated his juornal and removed the frames from his site. (maybe now it will work with Mozilla!)
* Saturday was a rather hectic day! (saturdays seem to be getting more and more that way!!!) We spent the afternoon over at Mom & Dad’s to celebrate birthdays for Dad, Karen( my sister) and Courtney (my nephew’s girlfriend). Dad is recovering from surgery still. It’s going slow. Too slow for him, I’m sure.
* Saturday night we went to Steohan & Christine’s home to celebrate Stephan’s 30th (that makes four birthdays in one day!) What a great time! We spent most of the evening with new friends Gina & Mike discussing the merits of DIY from a homeowner’s perspective (namely a lack of merit!) and just what precisely is wrong with the school system these days. Really a great conversation! I look forward to meeting with them again.
* Sunday I slept in!!!! Finally a decent night’s sleep! It was wonderful, and since Faith spent the day with Connie, I just lounged all day long! No work, no play, just some serious Veg-time!!!
* Okay, just for the sake of documentation: I had a dream sunday morning wherein I was being directed by an elderly Tibetan adept through a large throng of people, up an impossibly narrow access tube so that I could rescue what appeared to be a small Tibetan child in full ceremonial regalia. Okay, now I’ve had dreams like these before, no big deal (although the lucidity and detail is always alarming!) but later in the day as I was flipping through the channels I happened upon Eddie Murphy in “The Golden Child” (I bet you saw that one coming!) What scene? The one where Eddie exclaims (paraphrased) “I can’t believe I am going to Nepal to help save the Golden Child just because of some dream I had” Kind of made me think. Now, I am probably predisposed to this particular fantasy, but as I have noted to some friends that I have been experiencing a certain affinity with the Buddhists as of late. They seem to be at every turn, but not quite in my path, just slightly askew. I dreamt that I spoke with the Dalai Lama. I ran into (not quite into, but close) four traditional buddhist monks at the Air Show. (Not the airport, and they were not Hare’ Krishna’s - I ran into them in Kansas City). So, I figure I might as well start documenting all these little occurances to see if a pattern emerges. Nepal! N-E-P-A-L! Viva Nepal! Viva Nepal!
* Also did a bit of redesigning to the site. Cleaned up the code just a bit, tweaked some tables, added some color and added the line items ala’ Charlie.