Thursday, 31st of May, 2001
I heading out to Iowa City this afternoon for the ARML math contest. We got there around 21:00, enough time to start messing around with the 3 iMac "email stations" in the commons. I was prepared, and brought an OS9 CD along, so I was able to boot to CD and bypass MacManager, taking over the computer. Before, it was limited to just the telnet client. We goofed around, enjoyed the broadband, checked email, all that stuff.
Wednesday, 30th of May, 2001
After Chris spent a day putting together by hand the "recalled" hardware for the iBook cart at school, it was my turn to put together the other one. I figured, forget it. I'm using power tools. Cause it was pretty ridiculous, the effort needed to drive that screw in the sealed washers. But the cart used 3/16" hex screws, so I had to buy a bit for that. They only had a rachet bit, so I had to get a rachet adapter too, lol. But it worked, and I put it together with very little pain.
Tuesday, 29th of May, 2001
Another day of no school, what joy! I love being able to run errands during the day. I had to get sheet music for the Bruch Violin Concerto I'm starting to play, but M-R Music didn't have that one. So I used that as an excuse to drive to downtown St. Louis. Ahhh, how nice! It was a nice day today too.
Monday, 28th of May, 2001
I mowed the grass today, and exercised the tradition of waiting till the grass behind the garage is up to my waist before mowing that section... except this year it got up to my shoulders before I got around to it. So that created tons of exciting grass, weed, (tree?) mowing for the morning. Yeah baby.
Tonight I went over to Beth's house and we watched the Matrix on DVD. Man I love that movie. Beth hadn't really seen it before, and, well, it's the Matrix, so you know how that goes. I dunno, maybe if I watch it a few more times, I'll start calling it my favourite movie (without hesitation)
Sunday, 27th of May, 2001
I went to Andrea's confirmation tonight. It was really cool to see, and we did stuff afterwards. Ricky says he wants special mention tonight, so here it is. We went bowling, and then to Steak and Shake. I bowled pretty badly tonight, but owell, it satisfied my craving for bowling for a little bit.