Month: April 2002

It’s difficult to have a discussion about proper communication when your instant messenger doesn’t deliver your messages at the right time. Note to self: talk on the phone and in person more, especially when it comes to sensitive material.

You know it’s not a good night when your cable modem connection is on the fritz and your cell phone can’t get reception anywhere. If this post even makes it out there, I’ll be shocked.

Here’s a different take on the Friday Five. Today:

1. I got stuck in a hurricane in a dirty city. The thing about being in a dirty city during a hurricane is that you will get much of the dirt and garbage that comes from the streets and the sidewalks in your face.

2. I saw Macbeth in the West Village. I like the West Village. I should go there more often. I went with Stacey‘s roommate, Jessie, and their friend Anne. Stacey dropped out a few days ago because something else came up, and their other friend, Amber, dropped out because of the hurricane.

3. I’m calling it a hurricane, but it probably wasn’t really technically a hurricane. You’d have to check with the National Weather Service.

4. A major web project, which has been annoying me lately (not LSK) is pretty much done and I should be getting paid soon.

5. I might be able to get a new cell phone for free. That should make me happy, since my current one tends to get bad reception and the battery life is practically non-existent. In fact, “battery life” is pretty much an oxymoron.

Here’s an interesting article you probably won’t see published my American media. It seems the US Army (and whatever other Special Forces do this kind of stuff) are quite adept at killing… mostly their own troops and troops of other “friendly” nations.

Thanks to some help from a co-worker who visited my apartment the other day, my old desktop computer is up and running again… for the most part. The latest thing is that my DVD/CD-ROM isn’t working… and it’s kind of necessary. I hate to say it, but I missed having Windows for my personal computer. In any case, I can’t have both of my computers connected to the internet at the same time unless I buy another IP address or a router. So I still can’t get Heart Beat of Pompeii up and running. But soon…

UPDATE: Stored on Jasmyre are pre-Blogger website journal entries, going back an entire year before I started using Blogger. So I imported them into my latest website here. You can find them in the archives on the left.

So, there’s this bill in Congress, which if it’s passed will allow more oil drilling in Alaska, wreaking havoc on the environment. There hasn’t been too much support for this bill, and the Democrats will probably knock it down. So to make the deal seem sweeter to people who care about the environment, they are including a clause in the bill which would allow more aid for Israel.

So what do we do about an “oil crisis” if we can’t count on other oil-production countries to deliver it to us?

Fund research on cleaner alternatives.

Of course this won’t happen for political reasons… a lot of money going to the federal government comes from the oil companies.

I gotta stop with this politics stuff. It’s upsetting me.

It’s spring (some around here would argue that it’s summer) and love is in the air waves.

I wish I had read this article a year or year-and-a-half ago. (That would have been impossible, since the article was written only recently.) It might have given me more courage to get out of a bad situation instead of wasting more time.

I didn’t win.

Well, looks like we skipped right over winter and spring this year. It’s 90 degrees outside, and the updated forecast is even HOTTER tomorrow (93 degrees) and in the 80s for a few more days. I checked the forecast just yesterday and it wasn’t that high.

On an unrelated note, I think I came up with a fun feature for this here website thing. I’ll work on that tonight.