Ho Hum...

January 2, 1998

Today was just another day... I went to bed very early after calling Jevim on the phone and talking from about 8:30 to 9pm, and my sleep was full of of action-packed dreams. I slept until 7am, then hit the computer and watched the Today Show for my daily dose of news. Mom got up shortly thereafter and asked if I wanted to go to Wal-Mart, which was fine with me.

I stayed online until she was ready to go, hoping Jevim would show up, but he didn't. I bought myself Garth Brooks' latest CD, a narrow 60-CD tower to hold my CD-ROMS and some music over here near the computer -- both to get the clutter off my desk, and help with the overflow of music CDs -- some toothpaste, and a bottle of raspberry iced tea. $27 worth of stuff, or so they charged my credit card.

I hopped back online once we got home, and Jevim showed up shortly thereafter, though his father soon wanted him to help wash cars, and we didn't meet up again for a couple hours.

I tried downloading a couple different graphics program, looking for one that will let me draw the way I like to, but haven't really had any luck so far. I played with Fractal Design's "Bryce", which is a 3-D landscape creator/renderer, but wasn't terribly impressed; definitely not what I was looking for. I like their Painter, but without a drawing tablet, drawing anything is pretty difficult. And besides, according to Jevim, Painter costs about $200. Yikes!

Jevim and I chatted again for a bit this afternoon, and we did an ICQ chat with Connie, but he had to go eat dinner, and Connie went to take a nap, so I hopped offline and slept a couple hours too... I'm feeling rather groggy now; I think I've had too much sleep in the last 24 hours.

I'm downloading the 4.01 update to Internet Explorer, since 4.0 has been giving me trouble this time around; the 8.5MB download died halfway in the first time, but it's at 6MB after a restart, and says it has only 12 minutes to go. We'll see... I just hope it doesn't cause problems like Jevim's system started having once he installed it.

I was hoping to make this journal more interesting, instead of the boring old "grocery list of what I've done", but I have yet to come up with anything uniquely "me" to add to it. Maybe I'm just a boring person. Jevim doesn't seem to think so, but I think he's a bit biased. *wink*

Oh, he told me this morning (least I think it was this morning) it's next Saturday (a week from tomorrow) that he'll be moving back to school. I thought he had another week to put up with his family! I'm glad, and I think he's glad, too. He also told me Wednesday that he went to the dentist, who discovered that the enamel is wearing off one of his wisdom teeth. They say it could start causing him trouble in another six months or so, and want to remove it, and maybe the other wisdom tooth on that side as well. He's scared, and I hate dentists anyway, so I can really sympathize.

His father wants to schedule the appointment with the oral surgeon over spring break, but Jevim says "hell no" ... at least he did when he was telling me about it. He hasn't told his dad yet, as far as I know, but Spring Break was when I was going to have him out here so we could have a little time together, so hopefully he can get the appointment scheduled for some other time.

Well, the download is done, so I'm going to save this for now. ttyl...

Grrr... I really hate unusable demo programs... I found something called NetSketch that I think would fit at least some of my graphics needs, but the work area has this annoying "DEMO" watermark that shows through everything. It would be nice if they'd let you try it a dozen times or something without that! I want to create outlines for my images in there, then move them over to another program to do the fills and shading and all that stuff, but the watermark gets in the way. I guess they want people to register right away, but I'm not particularly fond of paying $70 for something I can't really even try!

Jevim has been online, and is off again so his sister can use the phone. She wants it until midnight, and it was about 9 or 9:30 when she wanted to take it over, so I'm alone again for another couple hours. I'm tempted to hop offline, but if I do, I bet Cindy will give up the phone early, and he'll have to wait around for me. I know, I wait around for him quite a bit, but it's not like I have anything I need to do that can't be done while I'm sitting online.

I'm not doing anything but whining and complaining, so I'll give you a break. G'night...

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