response 626 of 823:

Jun 1 04:00 UTC 2002

Well.. here I am cleaning out my after college email inbox after about oh..
13 days of not checking it, and I find an email from the ex girlfriend who's
appendix exploded from the 20th wondering why I was so harsh on the phone when
I didn't even honestly know who I was talking to on the other end.. 
I think I'm just gonna become a cop with no social life.. women are
confusing...Now I'm the one saying I'll just be friends...We've been apart
for over a month. I've not honestly thought about her in several days and I've
been on a handful of dates with other engaging women. I'm wondering if I
should just clam up.. get a job, keep my money where my mouth is and wait for
some lucky lady that suits me perfectly to drop into my lap.
Viva la bachelor! Or something.. grr.. I need another drinks

response 630 of 823:

Jun 1 23:34 UTC 2002

IBB food poisoning, I think.  I hate taking off work, but thankfully, 
I have paid sick hours now.

response 632 of 823:

Jun 3 02:05 UTC 2002

I hope you told her something like this - you liked her as a person.

Today Jim's fixed pentium unfixed itself (it has boot problems and serial port
problems) AFTER we had reinstalled all the boards and drives.  We tried to
look at the hard drive that had been in it and the computer said it had no
files on it and no file structure so we reformatted.  It took several tries
so Jim tried to run scandisk to find bad spots (he had found plenty before
but did not want to throw it out as it is a huge 340M).  Scandisk would not
run so he went to get the MS-DOS version (instead of DR-DOS) and decided to
put it on  a NEW boot disk (he had lots of old ones) and the floppy disk he
found was OS/2 so he put it in my computer (only one still usable with files
on it at his house) and typed FORMAT and then yes for go ahead and reformat
and we don't care if the files are lost.  So it did and now I have no files
on my C: drive.  And earlier today he was rummaging in teh closet and the two
hard drives I had used to back up those files fell and hit him so he put them
somewhere out of the way.  Some day we may find them again.

Time to set up a new computer.  At least I have most of the programs on the
computer at my office.  Jim will bike the computer from his house to my house
after he bikes over here on his new bike with brake cables for the old bike
that we was tuning up, that has the big basket, and both brake cables broke
two days ago during the tuneup.  Then he will bike back with the old bike to
get the computer to set up to replace the one he erased.  Tomorrow?

Worse things have happened but it was a waste of a lovely day.

response 634 of 823:

Jun 3 13:55 UTC 2002

Jim reports that, last two nights he slept at my apartment, the phone rang
three times in a row around 4 am and when he picked it up there was only a
dial tone.  This happened a couple of years ago and it took over a year to
convince the phone company that it was something on the line.  Changing us
to the upstairs neighbor's line when she moved fixed the problem.  They had
insisted the problem was at our end.  I doubt I can get them to change the
line again.  It appears that my fax-phone switch is oversensitive to noises
on the line due to testing lines in the middle of the night.  So we have to
unplug the phone at night, or get a different switch.  Maybe we can get the
cordless phone to work so one line will be usable at night.

response 638 of 823:

Jun 3 16:29 UTC 2002

Mixed results at my CPAP sleep study.  It did seem to help a bit, but they
weren't able to turn the pressure up to where it needed to be without waking
me up.  I had a little trouble with the mask, which I believe would pass, and
some difficulty sleeping in general from the unfamiliarity of it all, but
there were also other problems...  I may have more trouble adjusting to
breathing through my nose than adjusting to wearing the mask.  I'm naturally
a mouth breather because of the way my jaw is attached, which is something
it's hard to correct with external facial hardware. 
  On the plus side, however, there is reason to believe that fixing my
deviated septum will improve matters.  On the minus side, it will take 
several weeks to heal from this to the point where CPAP can be explored 
further.  
  Oh, well.  At least I know what the next steps are and am in the process
of taking them. 

response 640 of 823:

Jun 3 20:43 UTC 2002

#637 should read: i haven't even gotten my freaking refund.

response 642 of 823:

Jun 3 22:34 UTC 2002

Re #641 - Yup.  This is why breakups suck.  Dave and I are still tightrope
walking after a month.  I promise that it gets easier a teeny tiny bit each
day.

response 644 of 823:

Jun 4 05:44 UTC 2002

Got a call from the ex.. wondering how I was tonight, so she could tell me,
her health is still shitty and the incision on her stomach is doing poorly
for some odd reason (Possibly considering she had a ruptured appendix for
close to 3 weeks, didn't croak and wound up with two abcesses due to the
rupture in her abdominal cavity.. Just when I started not thinking about her.
she's talking to me again.. Geezum Crow!
 Grumble

response 646 of 823:

Jun 4 16:19 UTC 2002

Re 644, maybe she still likes you but did not want to be as close as you did?

response 648 of 823:

Jun 4 23:21 UTC 2002

IBB well, I went in to have the long time pre auricular cyst in front of my
right ear removed at 8am today. I waited till 10 before I was even put under..
I came to at noon... And the scarring won't be bad, but to prevent much the
said I believe that they went in thru my ear or some weird shit cause since
it was basically right there near the front of my ear, it feels like the
hearing in my right ear is somewhat blocked :( Grumble grumble.. Along with
the fact that the family gateway that I'm using is locking up and taking
several hard restarts from the power strip, the box and various other things
I'm uncomfortable doing to a computer, just to get it to finish booting up.