I've decided I prefer Populous to Civilization because you can conquer the world with a smaller time investment.

Guess I was wrong about the person invading... by the time they show up I won't be working here anymore. I'm going to have to go back to where I eat lunch most days when I'm unemployed too.. I've been going enough to be recognized.

Andrew: I suppose I should wait for my bother to get out of the shower before getting in myself.

I still think this is funny if you aren't thinking about there being two showers.

Here's an interesting article on the environmental impact of the global gag rule. Destroying women's rights and the environment in one shot. Impressive.

Ack, my private little space here [at work] is going to be invaded!

I have the music for Maniac Mansion going through my head...

If anyone wonders why I've disappeared over the next few days—I finally got a working Amiga emulator, and Zak McKracken, Populous II, ....

After Andrew showed me one of the Monkey Island games, I had to go searching for info on my all time favorite game: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. I found the Zak McKracken 2 Project (fan game) that's being worked on! Yay!!

It gets better! :)

�My guess is that the White House did not have many reasons to use the letter W over the last couple of years. It�s possible they just fell off because of sheer atrophy.�

Selina, Andrew, and I finally made it to the monolith this weekend. Quote of the day: "We can have ice cream after we evolve."

Monolith-1.jpg   Monolith-2.jpg   Monolith-3.jpg   Monolith-4.jpg   Monolith-5.jpg

Cats for Monolith!

The absolutely beautiful and bright weather out there just depresses me when I remember that it'll be dark by the time I leave work. I can't wait until summer when I can sit outside reading until late.

The sun was up past its bedtime ...

I remember there was nothing worse as a little kid than to have to go to bed in the summer while it's still light out.

And yet more:

"President Bush moved swiftly yesterday to block or rescind scores of executive orders and regulations dealing with the environment, health, food and safety, and workplace conditions that were rushed through in the final weeks of the Clinton administration."

"Loretta Kane, vice-president of the National Organization for Women which is holding the vigil, said Bush's executive order was 'devastating news' for women around the world."

ACLU and Reproductive Freedom

NARAL: Ten Minute Activist

"'I think the majority of pro-lifers are really looking forward to President Bush getting into office,' McCorvey said. 'I think we all have the same dream: We�d like to see Roe v. Wade overturned.'"

New York Times, free registration needed:

"At moments, the 132-room mansion appeared somewhat unfamiliar to him despite his father's four-year tenure there.", "And then, in a reference to his brief forays on the dance floor during the inaugural balls, where he danced an average of 48 seconds at each of nine events, he laughed and said, 'I was exhausted from dancing so much.'"

"What makes Ashcroft's nomination particularly troublesome is his life-long activism on these issues. He has not simply voted against choice - limiting reproductive rights has been the foundation of his legislative agenda for decades. He believes that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. He has sponsored a Human Life Amendment that would ban not only abortion—for almost any reason—but also popular forms of birth control."

From ROEvBUSH.com, by Planned Parenthood.

He's scaring me already...

With the Bush White House signaling a decision Monday, abortion opponents celebrated.

"On Saturday, Bush suspended some environmental protections and Medicare guidelines Clinton imposed in the final hours of his presidency."

There's no quick and easy way to recover your dignity when you're cooking and steam up your glasses.

I just got a letter saying that my great aunt, my mom's favorite aunt Ruthie, died recently. I remember visiting her in the nursing home as a little kid, and bringing crayons to draw. I was named after her—we both have the middle name Marie.

bikepoet: you're not 13 years old?
me: no i can at least pass for 16
bikepoet: haha... wow
bikepoet: well, congratulations
me: on looking 16?

This reminds me of Wednesday though. We got carded by someone new going into the Vogue, after walking right in like I have for the last year or so.

Looking at the recent posts, I've been quite bouncy and exclamation-point-y lately... due to new domains and no DSL of course. I'm sure this comes across appropriately in person, but I hope it's not making me look like a 13 year old girl with her first web site.

Domains are up!!!

*bounce*bounce*bounce*

happy-clicker.com, stari.org (Thanks Andrew, Kris, dilinger!)

*bounce*bounce*bounce*

(Archives back to the end of September)

Andrew says he's not taking any responsibility for whatever happens due to me asking NWR the peanut butter question.

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:25:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Web Goddess In-Training
To: nwr-list
Subject: peanut butter

Creamy or crunchy?

Some guy who went to Subway today is going to be very disappointed when he goes to eat his lunch. I knew he grabbed the wrong sandwich when I saw him take the one inside (mine), but he was gone before anyone could tell him. It's almost like he did it on purpose.

Two weeks until the DSL gets hooked back up!! iwillsurvivethissomehowiwilliwill

DSL has been down since Friday. I'm on a dial-up Earthlink account—starting to see the advantage of dating tech support. :) (Thanks Andrew!)

Random thought as I'm waking up: "At least I don't feel like an octopus."

bikepoet: i was really behind on my reading happy-clicker, like microbiology... but microbiology doesn't make me laugh

You can have a complete Hello Kitty bathroom with E-bay. Hello Kitty toilet paper (Henry would love to eat this), toilet seat cover, shower curtain, etc etc etc.

The name boingboing.net far outdoes the name happy-clicker.

Domains coming soon!!!!

I think I've developed a fear of peppers. Specifically, that someone will force me to eat a pepper someday, as an attempt to get me over my pickiness. Hopefully I've made it clear enough to everyone I know that this is a Bad Idea. I find it perfectly reasonable to think that eating a pepper could kill me.

This monolith thing is getting weird. We were going to go see it last weekend at Green Lake, but it'd already been taken and put in storage at Magnuson Park, which is supposed to become its permanent home.

I got this link from Zannah's site, a travel guide to Seattle (and other major cities.) It was interesting to me last week... I forgot why.

Waking up, walking out of an unfinished movie.

Off the bus, the 7, as it rounds the first corner, then it's straight down the hill and down the street to my house. On the side of the road, a badly injured black and white cat. Still alive, barely. I scoop him, it's a him, up into my arms, taking him home to see what can be done. Inside, I go downstairs, (place change, shouldn't it be up?) I'm in my house in Maine. I set the cat down on the bathroom counter. It's a black and white cat, this is important, I plan to use this information to fight my dad's apathy. (April was a black and white cat, even though april was long-haired and the boy is short-haired, April was a girl and the boy is... ) There's a damp cloth over his head, I panic, sad, I must have suffocated him without remembering even putting it there. Closely, I listen to see if he's still breathing, barely?

Andrew assured me that the cat lives, but how would he know?

[Cross posted from bareSquare]
Elevator etiquette in an office building is interesting to observe. People enter, space themselves between the corners, then fill up the middle. People exit, and readjust themselves to keep the equilibrium. Sometimes I'm just not up to this spacing game, and stay with my chosen position for the entire ride. This probably make some people feel the way I do when someone sits next to me on a nearly empty bus.

More on elevator etiquette—"If the button is already lit, someone else has already registered the call and there's no need to do it again. Here, too, pressing the button extra times won't make anything happen sooner."

I disagree. Pushing the button, already lit or not, signals to the elevator 'I'm on and ready to go." It also gives you one less moment of awkwardness because you're doing something, not just standing there. I'm starting to wonder where the stairs are.

BJWITH4CATS: never ask a woman who just went through hell giving birth what the name is going to be. depending on the medication you might be named after a moon beam
BJWITH4CATS: people should have cats
BJWITH4CATS: then you can call them stupid things and you don't have to pay for therapy when the kids get older
BJWITH4CATS: can you imagine having to go through life if your name was STUBBY?

Blogger was useless for a few days, then I was useless for a few days... I'll get those old updates up here soon.

New Year's quotes that I had forgotten!

"weird..... why does seattle do weird things?" – bikepoet

"okay, do you remember getting dressed this morning?" – me

Awww... the monolith disappeared before I ever got to see it... :( I had even looked up the address to that park today.

Either Blogger is (still) acting up, or Jon is deleting my posts from bareSquare as I write them. (I think it's Blogger, but you never know...)

Must... play... addictive puzzle games....

Blogger is acting up, yet again.

Last surreal quote of 2000 – "Aww, how cute—it's just like Columbine but without the ears."

Huh???

*dilinger* she called you psychotic AND cute
*dilinger* when is that not a compliment?

*dilinger* this conversation is entirely too surreal for having just woken up

I just checked 2001.com, 2001.net, and 2001.org to see what interesting things people came up with—a domain search, under construction, and a not found. How disappointing.

In case anyone was worried—yes, I got to the bagels on time today.