response 471 of 560:

Dec 4 00:17 UTC 2003

Got my DSL kit today, and I'm now DSL-lin' like Magellan!

I am quite proud that I installed it all by myself, and did not screw up
my phone in the process.

Now if this school semester would end already...

response 473 of 560:

Dec 4 02:39 UTC 2003

  For me it started out as scratchy throat and coughing, followed by high
  fever and chills, muscular aches, and later some difficulty breathing.
  I'm just assuming I got what everyone else in town seems to be coming
  down with;  I haven't done a comprehensive symptom check with any other
  victims.

response 475 of 560:

Dec 4 16:12 UTC 2003

I tried to get a flu shot at a clinic scheduled at St. Francis Catholic
School, on Tuesday, but when I got there no one knew anything about it.
 There's supposed to be one tomorrow (Friday) at Busch's on Ellsworth
Road, from 9 am to 1 pm, so I'll probably try again there.

There's a list of local MVN flu shot clinics here:
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2002/flushot.htm

response 477 of 560:

Dec 4 21:08 UTC 2003

IAHB a package from Amazon was in my mailbox today.

response 479 of 560:

Dec 5 00:28 UTC 2003

  Merry Christmas, Dr. Molotov!

response 481 of 560:

Dec 5 02:23 UTC 2003

Re #478: Should we call you "unajiffer"?

response 483 of 560:

Dec 5 15:09 UTC 2003

I'm incredibly happy I found a Formula-1, Ferrari Barbie for my boyfriend for
Christmas.  He collects F-1 and is a huge Ferrari fan.  It's a cheesy gift,
but a grand gift none the less.

response 485 of 560:

Dec 5 15:30 UTC 2003

Does he like Barbie?

I'm happy because I get to see a cheesy Hindi movie tomorrow at a 
theater. It's been over a year since I've watched a Hindi movie at a 
theater. And it's always fun when you watch one here in the US, rather 
than in India.

response 487 of 560:

Dec 5 15:51 UTC 2003

I guess it balances out then :)

Is the Ferrari pink?

response 489 of 560:

Dec 5 16:49 UTC 2003

Ooh. Sweet.

response 491 of 560:

Dec 5 20:52 UTC 2003

IHB I got to see Simon & Garfunkel in concert last night at Madison 
Square Garden.  It was sort of a last minute deal, but I'm glad I went 
because it turned out to be a really good show.  Neither is as young as 
they used to be, but both of those guys can still sing and they haven't 
lost their considerable stage chemistry and voices.  And among 
contemporary twentieth century singers, few have voices more familiar 
to more people than Simon & Garfunkel.  

S&G did some of their great old songs like Paul Simon singing "The Only 
Living Boy in New York", and Garfunkel singing "Kathy's Song"  
Also "Cecilia", "Slip Sliding Away", "Scarborough Fair" and others.  
Many of their songs are so familiar that at times most of the place was 
singing along, like when S&G did "America", and Simon was singing "Let 
us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together, I've got some real 
estate here in my bag, so we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. 
Wagner pies and we walked off to look for america..."

S&G's guest act (can't all it opening act because their set was in the 
middle of the show), was the Everly Brothers.  I hadn't even realized 
they were still alive, yet alone still performing.  They came on 
between S&G sets. The Everly Brothers performed songs like "Wake Up 
Little Susie" and "Dream' (Dream Dream Dreaaaam, Dreaaaaaaaaaam")  Then 
S&G came back on stage and, calling the Everly Brothers their heroes 
and principal early influence, they did a quartet of the Everlys' "Bye 
Bye Love"  

Then S&G did their second set, and Art Garfunkel, who still has a big 
head of hair, brought the house down as expected with "Bridge over 
Troubled Water", where he starts out singing in almost a whisper, and 
at the end is belting out "I will ease your mind like a bridge over 
troubled water, I will ease your mind...." at the top of his range.  It 
was also cool when they dimmed the lights a bit and they did the 
beautiful duet of "Sounds of Silence", which of course starts 'Hello 
darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again..."

At one point the arena went dark, and they showed clips on the 
jumbotron of Dustin Hoffman in the movie "The Graduate", and then you 
hear the opening chords of that movie's theme song, "Mrs. Robinson", 
and the lights come up and its really Paul Simon live singing the 
song.  "...where have you gone Joe Dimaggio, a nation turns its lonely 
eyes to you"  I thought that was pretty cool.

Both Simon and Garfunkel did a fair bit of chatting with the audience, 
with Simon explaining that they met as sixth graders in Queens fifty 
years ago, and Garfunkel chiming in that while they've known each other 
since they were eleven, they didn't start arguing until they were 
fourteen, so this tour celebrates fifty years of friendship and forty 
seven years of arguing.  

Anyway, I wasn't expecting to go to this show, the ticket I used 
belonged to someone else who couldn't go, but I'm glad I did.  I was a 
bit depressed and the show really cheered me up, and not just because I 
probably inhaled some second hand smoke from all the marijuana joints 
being passed around.  Simon and Garfunkel are a classic act, and it was 
nice to see them while they are still around and performing together, 
which they don't do that often anymore.  They are on tour for about 
three more weeks, if you can catch them I'd recommend it.  

response 493 of 560:

Dec 5 22:32 UTC 2003

It's snowing in Pittsburgh.  *A lot*.  Forecast is for eight inches (down from
ten earlier, but still. . . )

 :-D