Month: October 2000

Another strange reference to my

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Another strange reference to my website has been found on the internet. This page looks like someone’s list of bookmarks. You can find a link to my “hotlist” from my first website, among links to pornographic sites, under the section entitled “Tsontes,” which I think means “sex” in Greek. (Can anyone confirm this?) In any case, my hotlist had nothing to do with sex, so I’m not quite sure what that link is doing there.

Here are my plans for

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Here are my plans for this upcoming weekend in New England, so far:

  • Friday night: drive up to Newburgh, NY from work (one hour) and stay with Alissa’s relatives
  • Saturday: drive from Newburgh to Cranston, RI (three hours) to work at the competition
  • Saturday night: drive back west on I-84 and find a place to stay overnight
  • Early Sunday morning: drive north to Vermont to check out the autumn leaves before they fall off the trees, passing through Brnnington and Green Mountain
  • Sometime Sunday evening: decide it’s time to drive home and do so (five to six hours)

I mean… ugh. I am….

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I mean… ugh. I am…. pissed off. He’s so stupid. He doesn’t know the difference between a country and a continent. The other day he said some small country was a continent. he doesn’t know the names of leaders of other countries. He doesn’t know what laws his own state has. He doesn’t know the names of people he’s sent the electric chair two days ago. He can’t form a sentence. He can’t answer questions. he can’t defend himself. He can’t think for himself. He doesn’t know anything about anything unless it’s something a speech writer has written out for him ahead of time, which is why he can’t answer questions. He can’t get facts right about Gore’s plans or about his own. and yet, amazingly, after each debate Bush has risen in the polls. What the hell is wrong with the rest of the people watching this stuff? He’s stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. What are people seeing in him that I’m missing? Do they like the fact that he doesn’t have a brain? I totally don’t understand.

– An ICQ message from Alissa to me. Did I mention I truly dislike politics?

When asked whether restoring moral

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When asked whether restoring moral and family values or maintaining economic growth was a higher priority, more voters said moral values, 43 percent to 31 percent, in the NBC-WSJ poll. That’s a reversal from a month ago, when economic growth was favored, 44 percent to 36 percent.

Sometimes I think we Americans are just too flighty to vote for our own government. It’s a good thing we don’t. Well, not directly, anyway.

I truly dislike politics. Did I ever mention that?

Usually baseball games aren’t that

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Usually baseball games aren’t that interesting. However, if the teams played like it was always the play-offs, maybe they would be more fun to watch. I must say that this year’s play-offs have captured my interest. I was a Mets fan back in the day, and I’ve found myself rooting for them once again. I think it would be great to see a Subway World Series.

Oddly, all my passwords have

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Oddly, all my passwords have disappeared from my computer’s memory, including Windows passwords as well as website passwords. Happy Friday the 13th, eh? Speaking of which, my boss’ computer was acting up today and I still haven’t fixed the problem completely for him…

It’s another weekend of work

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It’s another weekend of work up ahead for me: tomorrow evening and all day Sunday. I’m hoping to get a Sunday off this next weekend so I can go driving into New England to look at the leaves on the trees while they are the most colorful. When I was younger and lived in Upstate New York, every fall we would drive through Connecticut and Massachusetts during the one weekend when the trees were at their prettiest of the year. I’m hoping I’ll be able to start doing that again. I believe next weekend is the best time of the season, so I will have to work it out somehow.

Even if I do end up going, I really don’t know where to drive. Does anyone who is familiar with the area have any suggestions as to where the roads with the best trees in New England are?