Wednesday, September 2, 1998
10:21 AM
I meant to be good and start getting back into the habit of writing an entry every day, starting yesterday. I tried, but I tried doing it playing around with some speech recognition software, and the result was funny, but it didn't really make much sense. Such is life, sometimes. Anyway, here it is, the second day of the month, and just a couple days shy of my birthday.
It's Friendship Day, or at least according to our local paper it is; the florist gave away a dozen roses to the first X number of people (Mom read the article but didn't tell me how many), on the condition that they give each rose away to a different friend. Mom was fourth in line (I slept in after two nights of only 5 hours of sleep), and when I woke up, she showed me the vase full of roses. Then she proceeded to put them into separate bud vases, and now she's delivering them around town. She only had four left to give away at last count; amazing, I don't think I even know that many people in town; at least that's how it feels most of the time. I don't mean to complain, just stating the facts.
I talked to Julie last night on the phone, and we finalized plans for my trip. Now I just need to find airline tickets that will deliver me to Seattle at the right time, and bring me home again, and not cost me an arm and a leg. That's my task for the day; well, that and finishing up the little Christmas Ornament cross stitch I'm working on.
Yesterday while she was out yard-sailing, Mom found a cute little stamped cross stitch pattern of a bear and a bunnie hugging. It's so perfect, because my friends that are getting married are a bear and a bunnie, at least in the newsgroup I know them from. I'm going to make some color changes to the pattern, and do it on regular Aida cloth as counted cross stitch instead, but it should turn out pretty cute. I just hope I can get it done in time, since I've got a half-finished project for Julie that needs to be finished by the 29th, and the wedding is the 26th.
Well.... I *had* some deep, philosophical things I meant to write about last night... now I'm hard pressed to remember what they were. It figures; I really should have written an entry last night, but I was feeling lazy. After Jev went to sleep, I stitched and chatted with IRC friends, and that's not very conducive to typing up an entry. I could have dictated it, but you wouldn't have understood a word that I said.
Just for laughs, here's a smidgin of my attempted dictated entry:
Its September 1st and whether it's still warm anonymous around the corner soon long candidates will turn and his cold winter night and coming up with the warmly were founded again than
Roughly translated, that's "It's September first. The weather is still warm, and autumn is around the corner. Soon, long summer days will turn into cold winter nights, and cuddling up with a warm blanket will sound good again.
Obviously, I need to learn to enunciate a little better, and I need to do a lot more training with the program. It's a thirty day demo of Dragon NaturallySpeaking that came with my new headphones and mike, and it's something I've wanted to try for a while now. One of the problems is that the minimum requirements call for a Pentium 133, and my little Pentium 90 is struggling to keep up. I have to sit and wait for it to analyze a paragraph and decide what I've said, and it sometimes takes a few minutes.
Jev has it running on his computer, and at least from what he's said, it seems to do a lot better with the faster processor. Still, it's kinda fun, and definitely amusing when it tries to figure out something it doesn't understand. Just for laughs, I recited the pledge of allegiance. "I pled allowance to the flag of the wasted states of america...." It gets to the point sometimes where it's hard to keep talking, for all the laughter it causes.
I'm going to get some back entries typed in and get this all uploaded, then go work on my stitching. Happy Friendship Day!
1:05 PM
I just finished typing in all my back entries for June, and I must admit, I'm feeling pretty depressed. It was definitely not my best visit with Jev, and there were so many things that didn't go right, that I'm surprised we didn't have even more arguments. We made it through, though, and his visit up in Minnesota was much nicer, and serves as proof that a lot of the problem in June and July was indeed the stress of the living arrangements.
I still have more entries to get sorted out, put into frontier, and put up here on my site, but I need to get a few other things done today, too, so I'm off to upload these, have lunch, and stitch. For some reason, I'm procrastinating on buying the airline ticket. *sigh*
