Saturday, July 31, 2004--I spent most of today playing Golden Sun 2. You do get an airship... just not one as good as the Final Fantasy Airships. It's kinda crappy, actually.
A Year Ago Today: I get my wisdom teeth pulled. Ow!
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 4) Total: 5
Anyways, back work. Quirk! Jerk! Ferk! Ed Ferguson! The horse? Yeah!
Good Night!
Friday, July 30, 2004--Today, the Termite Terminators were terminating the subterranean termites in the garage, so my family and I went to the mall to see I, Robot. It's a pretty good movie... if you ignore the fact that it has almost
nothing in common with what Isaac Asimov actually wrote. The movie was actually originally called "Hardwired", and it originally had
nothing to do with the book I, Robot, but the producers decided to inject the 3 laws of robots and change the name in attempts to get the movie to sell...
which is actually ironic, since most people don't have the foggiest idea who the hell Asimov was anyway. Stupid producers.
Joyce: Wow, I, Robot is such a good movie!
Me: My friend Alex hates it because it gives the book a bad name.
Joyce: There was a book?!?
Yeah, so my review: As a movie, I, Robot was good. As a movie
based on a Asimov book I, Robot is simply sacrilege.
Me: I saw I, Robot today.
Alex: What? How could you support such mockery?!?
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 4) Total: 6
Good Night!
Thursday, July 29, 2004 - Addendum--So I invited Kim to come see the movie with us on my birthday, but she said some shit about having other plans on that day, something about family friends and having to show them around. Grrr...
Then, I ask Kim if she wants to play a computer game, so we went onto Yahoo Games and played Pool. Yay! She won 3 out of 3, because I wasn't aware of all the rules.
Kim: Are you letting me win?
Me: No, of course not!
Thursday, July 29, 2004--Today: Tutoring, Golden Sun...
I think we get an airship in GS2, but I'm not sure.
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 5) Total: 7
Good Night!
I need to talk to Kim...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004--Today: Tutoring, Fencing... learned some new tricks.
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 2) Total: 8
Good Night!
Tuesday, July 27, 2004--Today, I prepped up for my algebra class and went and taught. Today's lesson is a change from the usual (Polynomials... "What?" "Polynomials... I'll teach you about what they are."), but it was a lot simpler lesson than the previous ones. I noticed during the classwork, people were a lot more productive... although it's possibly because of the bad quiz scores I returned to them... heh...
Tutoring, then back at home I updated my website because I missed an update last night.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 6) Total: 9
Apparently, Aliens VS Predator comes out on my birthday. That's what we should do on my birthday--see that movie! Kupo!
Good Night!
Monday, July 26, 2004--So... tired...
Anyways, today I spent correcting papers for my algebra class and tutoring. It was tiring.
Then, I went fencing. After my lesson, I fenced Matt. Apparently, I'm improving. I lost 8-10, but one of my touches was quite fantastic. Matt was just charging down at me, apparently waiting for me to make the first move so he could react, parry, and riposte, but somehow, I just went straight for the head and got him. After the bout, he and I and coach Dirk talked about how my friend Zach said that the best fencers fence on instinct and about how if you need to think about your every move, you're fencing too slow. All in all, it was a good day. (Not like last thursday, when I was so tired, I nearly collapsed.)
Back at home, I was going onto my computer, but I noticed that the fan was making weird noises, so I took it apart. It turns out that the connection between the motor and the fan blades was too loose, which was why it made that snap sound every time it started. (The motor starts, and the connector hits the fan, making that loud nap; it also made that sound when I turned it off, the motor would stop, and the fan would turn over and hut the motor connector.) So I tightened it with the screw. Now, the fan works much better again, although fixing the fan in the hot summer heat made me sweat a lot. Urgh! And I just showered, too. Oh, well. 'Tis the smell of sweat that makes me... umm... never mind...
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 5) Total: 11
Good Night!
Sunday, July 25, 2004--Golden Sun 2...
very non-linear. It's less linear than the first Golden Sun. If you enjoy non-linear RPGs (and trust me, FFX-2 does
not count), play Golden Sun.
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 5) Total: 7
Other than that, Kupo! I mean, Good Night!
Saturday, July 24, 2004--Working on my special project. I have a screenshot... which I will
not post up. Haha!
Other than that, Good Night!
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 4) Total: 5
Friday, July 23, 2004--Today was mostly me playing Golden Sun 2. Anyways, I have an addendum to Wednesday, July 14. Read it if you're interested in another one of my weird dreams. There's also an addendum to yesterday that adds an interesting miscommunication.
A Year Ago Today: I had the ninja school dream in which Lizzie says "Oh great, now I'm stuck with Dwayne."
Showgi for lunch... Burger King for dinner... played Goldun Sun 2.
Yeah... Good Night!
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 4) Total: 9
Thursday, July 22, 2004 - Addendum--Franklin and I were playing poker...
Franklin: I need to play with more money so that I can lose and still win big when my time comes.
Me: What? Your kind thumbs?
Thursday, July 22, 2004--I had a strange dream last night. Apparently, I was back at the SJYS and not only was I playing the viola, but I was also playing the piano, and they had some 11-note chords in that piano piece they wanted me to play. Me: "Holy shit!" Later in the dream, I frolicked with Emma and Lizzie.
Anyways, I did some tutoring, I worked on my project, I fenced (but I was so friggin' tired today), so I came back home early. 'Nuff said.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 1) Total: 4
Good Night!
Wednesday, July 21, 2004--Heh, it seems that I have forgotten to add a monday entry, and that I accidentally labeled my tuesday entry as my monday entry instead. Whoops! Now, to fix that grievous error.
Anyways, today, I completed Golden Sun and got everything etc etc, so now I'm transferring my file to Golden Sun 2. They gave me a 260 character password, which I messed up on the first time (got a
single character wrong) and had to start over. Sucks. You know what sucks more? In Golden Sun 2, Felix doesn't talk. WTF?!? Man, Felix was cool, but now that he's mute, he's totally lame. Stupid designers. If I ever make an RPG, the main character will talk.
Wait, I
am making an RPG, and the main character
does talk. LOL!
Oh, and apparently, Jasmine Tzeng is taking up the sword... fencing!
In any case, last night, I had a dream that I was at Katherine Yang's house and that she had grown up, except her house had a huge pit in the middle, in which we would be eating dinner, but I didn't go because I had a fear of heights. Later, people started fencing in the house's vast expanses of space, so I grabbed my gear and joined them. Mark Applebaum made a cameo appearance in my dream as one of the many fencers. Later, as I was running around with my sword, I ran into Linda and Sarah, who were barbequing in the backyard. Weird...
Joyce says that dreams are a prophecy of the future... hopefully the good ones... not the bad ones... (neither of us was too fond that we would be fighting in my Berkeley Mech Battle Competition dream... Alex says I've been playing too much Xenogears... no wait, I said that; Alex said I liked Xenogears too much...)
Anyways, after tutoring... and more tutoring... Good Night!
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 3) Total: 9
Tuesday, July 20, 2004--Time for me to dig into my mailbox and reply to some mail. Unfortunately, no one sends me mail, but one person posted something in my ghostbook, which I will respond to:
Students getting a 15/20 DOES NOT mean solely that you did a good job. Did they understand everything, is your teaching method correct?
--------Albert
Well, it's certainly not the teacher's fault. I go over the material, I give plenty of example problems, plenty of practice problems, I give opportunity for the students to ask questions. It's just that the students don't do the work. I mean seriously, who spends 30 minutes just to do 3
algebra problems. And trust me, it's not a matter of not understanding the material, because the students spend more time chit-chatting and playing around during "classwork time" instead of actually working. That and I often hear the students say that the homework is easy when they think I'm not listening.
Oh, and that quiz was purposely made hard (I gave them 20 minutes to do 20 problems), so 15/20 is actually
good... just not by middle school/high school Asian Honors AP insanely high standards.
Anyone else would like to send me a message for me to reply to?
Or how about that guy who likes to post in my guestbook about "Karen". If I write the name "Karen", would he just show up saying, "Oooh! You mentioned Karen 26 times today!"? Heh, that's a funny thought... although Karen might not think so.
Anyways, today, I passed back the quizzes to the students and taught them how to solve systems of equations in two variables.
Now I'm tired like a pancake. (For those of you who don't know, I like weird analogies.)
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 3) Total: 4
Anyways, it's Red Week at
MTG.com. Red is a cool color. Blow up shit!
Good Night!
Monday, July 19, 2004--Today... playing Golden Sun... tutoring... fencing... that's all!
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 5) Total: 6
Good Night!
Sunday, July 18, 2004--Spent some time working on special project... ate lunch at Burger King... watched Simpsons (a satire on the new "patriotism"... supposedly a re-run)... that's about it!
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 3) Total: 8
Good Knight!
Saturday, July 17, 2004--I got back to play Golden Sun, the Nintendo RPG for the GBA. It's a pretty good RPG for Nintendo, and a pretty good RPG in general.
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 2) Total: 4
Anyways, I'm going to go play some more Golden Sun. Good Night!
Friday, July 16, 2004--Freaky!
A Year Ago Today I was getting nosebleeds, and
today I was getting nosebleeds. Hmm...
Anyways, we went to Super Buffet for lunch, and I had too much to eat.
Other than that, it was playing Xenogears and watching Emeralda grow up, and working on my project.
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 2) Total: 3
Good Night! (Yes, I like to keep my boring entries short.)
Thursday, July 15, 2004--More work on my project... tutoring... fencing... that's it... uneventful day...
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 6) Total: 7
Good Night!
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - Addendum--I remembered my dream. Apparently, it was a spinoff on X-Men or something, and I was an alternate Shadowcat (don't ask why I was dreaming I was a girl... I have
no idea), and apparently, instead of being able to phase through stuff, she was a half-cat beast mutant thing (except she looked mostly human... I think...), and she had Mystique for a mother and a lion for a father, and she had sharp claws, like Wolverine except not as long, more curvy, and not retractable, and for some reason, she could create illusions. Also, in this dream, Nightcrawler was evil (and this is the Nightcrawler from X-Men: Evolution), and he had stolen a pair of Chaos Orbs (not to be confused with the MTG
Chaos Orbs, and he and Kitty were driving in a car trying to escape Cyclops (who was chasing after them, and he wasn't fooled by the illusions, and it was the grownup Cyclops from the original X-Men cartoon), and finally, to save Kitty, Nightcrawler offers to stay behind and turn himself in to Cyclops, but before he does, Kitty takes one of his Chaos Orbs from him to keep it safe for him. Then, as she escapes back to the X-Mansion to the safety of her room, the ending theme from Xenogears plays.
What does it mean? I have no idea.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004--There's an addendum on Sunday, July 11 if you're interested. It's dream analysis... kinda...
And today, I have another dream to write about... except I forgot it so I won't write anything about it just yet. If I do remember it, you can expect another addendum later.
Anyways, other than that, it's been more work on the secret project and more tutoring, plus more getting tired...
tired...
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 1) Total: 3
Good Night!
Tuesday, July 13, 2004--'Tis my birthday minus a month. I must begin to make plans... or should I? Hmm... I ought to do something different this year. [censored]! That would be a good idea. You know that [censored] is really [censored] and [censored] would make a fine addition to my party.
(Note: Dwayne is just randomly censoring shit and speaking nonsense. He is
not talking about anything illegal or immoral or the like.)
Anyways, today was a long day. In the algebra class I teach, I gave the kids a quiz, even the best student in the class got 15 out of 20... so I did a good job. Heh... Anyways...
Private tutoring...
Dinner...
More private tutoring...
Franklin's Counter-Control deck has been resurrected... still godly powerful... new Elf and Nail deck is pretty deadly... ow!
Tired... cannot speak in complete sentences...
Although my Blue-White Control deck did beat Franklin's Counter-Control deck in a really weird matchup. His mistake? Trying to cast Time Stretch
twice, both times I Memory Lapsed. Lucky for me I had been able to draw out nearly my entire deck thanks to Serum Visions and Condescend.
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 2) Total: 7
Anyways, Good Night!
Monday, July 12, 2004--Secret project... I'll let you know later. If you're
realy curious, ask me over AIM.
Other than that, I had a quick tutoring job and a good fencing work out. Stab! Stab! Slash! Lunge! Scrape! Kill! ...okay, not kill, but the others yeah.
And the word "KILL" can be easily transformed into the name "KIM". Hmm... bad omen?
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 2) Total: 4
Good Night!
Sunday, July 11, 2004 - Addendum--Dream analysis for those of you who are interested...
Last night, I dreamt I ate fried chicken... then I ate fried chicken for lunch today.
Secondly, I had a dream in which everybody at Berkeley had giant mechs, a la Xenogears, and we were having this mech battle competition, and in my first bout, I was scheduled to fight Joyce. We didn't actually fight, but it was a strange dream.
Maybe it means I've been playing Xenogears too much.
Sunday, July 11, 2004--Okay, I added an
addendum to Thursday, so look for it.
A Year Ago Today: Funny math team meeting
Other than that, today, I played Xenogears and beat the game. Right now, however, I don't feel like giving my feedback for it, but I will say it was a
hell lot better than Xenosaga... which I've said before.
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 4) Total: 6
Good Night!
Saturday, July 10, 2004--Today, Frank and I went to lunch with the SSS gang--meaning Justin, Mark, Alan, and Ryan. At Ariake Sushi, we ended up sitting in order from most perverted to least perverted--Alan, Justin, Me, Ryan, Mark, Franklin.
Alan: How ironic!
Me: No, how
coincidental.
Then, we crashed at my place for some MTG. First, Justin used his goblins to duel Alan's
Mirari's Wake deck, which he copied off some Worlds 2003 decklist. In any case, he lost 2 out of 3, but in his second game, he managed to draw most of his deck, got out
three Wakes, made 72 mana, cycled
Decree of Justice for
69 4/4 soldier token, attacked with all of them (Justin blocked one), and dealt 272 damage, which was 252 overkill (because Justin was at 20 life... the whole time). That breaks Ryan's record of 180 or so overkill. It was
insane. Dude, the only way to break this record would have to be an infinite creature combo, like a squirrel deck! (The irony...)
Then, we played a damage-based 5-player FFA, which Justin won. It was better than last week's format, which was horribly screwed up. Highlights include:
Justin gets a cell phone call from his parents...
Justin: (to cell phone) What movie are you watching?
Alan: (to Justin) What movie are they watching?
Me: I
Smother your
warchief.
Justin: Jerk...
Franklin: Wait... they're watching "Jerk"?
Alan: "Jerk: The Movie", the sequel to "Jackass"!
And... that was the only highlight.
Next up was the 2v2, the Jeng brothers versus Justin and Alan, because Mark wanted to see Franklin's "Cannon" deck in action.
Now, Franklin's deck is a blue-red control deck which wins by dropping huge creatures like
Akroma, or
Scion of Darkness using
Sneak Attack. So Franklin paired off against Alan (control VS control) and Justin and I paired off (aggro VS aggro), him using goblins, me using slivers.
In the beginning, it was Justin and me duking it out. Alan is doing nothing but tutoring out lands, so Justin says, "My partner is useless." Franklin quickly got out his
Isochron-
Counterspell combo out, and Justin ends up having almost nothing on the field. Alan, who now has a decent land-base, sees Justin's powerlessness and counter-taunts him by saying, "My partner is useless."
Later, while Justin attacks me with a
Gob King and a Gob Warchief...
Franklin & Me: I--
Me:
Magma Jet him.
Franklin:
Aether Burst him.
(Franklin and I look at each other funny.)
In attempts to resolve this, he bounced the King and I Magma Jetted the Warchief (I wanted to scry). Then, when Justin replayed the King, Franklin countered. Whoops!
Later, Franklin gets out his Sneak Attack, uses it to play Akroma, then sends it to me. He had to sacrifice Akroma at the end of the turn, but because he didn't have her anymore, he couldn't, so I got to keep Akroma. However, since this forced Franklin to tap out, Alan had the opportunity to play Mirari's Wake unopposed.
Me: Okay,
now Alan's a threat.
Later, I attacked with Akroma and a Muscle Sliver, but Alan plays
Vengeful Dreams and removes both of them.
Franklin: You're going to hate my next play.
Using Sneak Attack, he plays out
another Akroma and a Scion of Darkness and sends them both to me. However...
Next turn, Alan cycled Decree of Justice (which Franklin can't counter) for 17 2/2 Soldier tokens. Franklin and I were at 28 Life. Justin and Alan were at 17.
Me: And so it begins...
I quickly sent the Scion and the Akroma back to Franklin. In the meantime, he already had my (1/1)
Hunter Sliver. Franklin attacked with Akroma. Alan plays
Moment's Peace. Franklin counters with his Counterspell-on-a-stick (Franklin: "Hot Dog on a Stick"). They take 6 damage. 28-11.
Alan decides whether or not to attack with his 17 soldiers.
Justin: Dude, just send them to me. They have no blockers on this side.
Alan: But my Wake only pumps them up on this side.
Me: That's right. If you send them all to Justin, you can't deal lethal damage. (I was scared until I realized this.)
Thus, Alan decided to counterattack with all 17 of his tokens. Franklin bounces 2 with his Aether-Burst-on-a-stick. I
Lightning Bolt another. 3 down, 14 to go. The Akroma and the Scion block and kill two more. The Hunter Sliver chump blocks one more, so that's 11 2/2 attackers. We take 22 damage. 6-11.
Franklin: Now we have to get ready for the second wave.
Me: No, just counterattack for the win. They have no blockers. You have two 6/6 tramplers. They can't beat us unless Justin draws a
double Lightning Bolt.
(It was just before Justin's turn, and he had no cards in his hand.)
Justin: *draws a card* I hate you. *plays his useless
Goblin Goon*
I pass my turn. Franklin attacks with the Akroma and the Scion. Alan flashbacks Moment's Peace. Franklin counters it with his scepter. We win.
Whew! Close game...
Franklin: You know what was really cool? There was a power battle on this side at first (between me and Justin), and in the end, there was a power battle on this side (between him and Alan).
Me: Well, duh, you have aggro VS aggro and control VS control. Aggro decks are early-game decks while control decks are late-game decks, so it's only natural that the game would turn out like this.
Later, we went to Vivian's new house. Bernard & Kellie were also there. Highlights include Franklin and I playing a power game of Badminton while Vivian and Robin just smack the birdie around beside his. Other highlights include me talking to Robin, and Robin replies without using words.
Me: Oh, wait, I can't ask you that because then you'd have to use words.
That Robin reminds me of Maria. Both of them are quiet.
Vivian: Mrs. Liu!
Me: Wait, you call your mom "Mrs. Liu"?
Vivian: Well, what else would you call her?
Me: I'd call her "mom".
Vivian: Mom!
Anyways, that's about it... or at least as much as I can remember.
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 4) Total: 6
Whoa! Long entry. Long day. Good Night!
Friday, July 9, 2004--You know that sound that the moogles make in FF9 and FFTA? Well, that sound sounds kinda like "kupokupo". Funny, isn't it? Franklin doesn't think so, though. (the sound, not the funniness)
Anyways, today, I tried playing Xenogears, only to find that Disc 2 kept getting stuck in a certain place, so I visited Alex and he got out his little kit to fix it. At first, it didn't work, so Alex told me to get a lint-free cloth and buff the surface of the disc, so I did. Eventually, it worked.
So... yeah, I was playing Xenogears pretty much the whole night. Man, this game's storyline is so much better than Xenosaga. Hell,
all of Xenogears is better than Xenosaga. Sometimes I even wonder why they
made Xenosaga, that piece of shit.
I'll be sure to
borrow Xenosaga 2 rather than waste N dollars on it. (Or else I could just buy it when it gets cheap, like I did Xenosaga 1.)
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 3) Total: 6
Good Night!
Thursday, July 8, 2004 - Addendum--This poem is based on a true story...
NOT IN SERVICE
driving down highway 87
in the slow lane
traffic stops
i spot a trolley
NOT IN SERVICE it says
the fast lane merges in
i yield
a cop car dashes by
it gathers with its mates ahead
blocking traffic
i merge into the merging lane
they yield
the last car flies away
leaving nothing between
me and the tragedy
an officer walks by
flashing his light into my eyes
making sure i see him
as he tells me wait
we're clearing out the street
another kicks a piece of debris off the road
in the stillness
motorcycle wreckage litters the floor
a car is smashed against the inner wall
the way clears
i move
carefully
i glimpse a helmet lying on the road
floating upon a dark pool
a man
no
a boy
rode his motorcycle
carefree
unaware
of his doom
a car
swerved
destroying
everything
embedded itself
into the wall
a startled trolley driver
stopped the car
alerted the police
the boy lay in the middle of his road
the impact knocked his helmet off
his bare head lay
gazing at the stars
as his life drained from his body
and dissipated upon the street
i pass
a glance in my mirror
the trolley still says
NOT IN SERVICE
never in service again
Thursday, July 8, 2004--Kupo! I think I'm turning into a moogle.
Anyways, I have a new tutoring student that needs to be tutored, so I tutored her.
Later, I went fencing, and I learned a new technique. Speaking of which, I should be practicing it. It is a very good exercise.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 4) Total: 7
Good Night! Kupo!
Wednesday, July 7, 2004--Coding can be fun, and so can Xenogears. Woot! I also did some tutoring at Jumping Up today and caught a brief glimpse of Stephanie.
A Year Ago Today: I come home from Japan
Here's a historical MTG story: There is a rule that says creature cannot attack or use tap abilities on the first turn. In the olden days, this effect was unofficially called "summoning sickness" (which was an official term at one point, see
Heart Sliver) or "jetlag". The day I returned from Japan last year, I claimed to be suffering from summoning sickness. Well, I certainly don't need to explain this to you.
A conversation in Japan...
Me: I'm suffering from summoning sickness.
Greg: Well, I have haste, so I'm fine.
You know, the other day, I was in a chatroom called "sarah", and some other people joined the room. Wow... I didn't know anyone besides me used the chatroom "sarah".
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 5) Total: 10
And now, back to our regular programming...
programming! Good Night!
Tuesday, July 6, 2004--Morning: Prepped up for the Algebra class I'd be teaching in the afternoon.
Afternoon: Taught Algebra. The funny thing is, the parents will complain if I make the class too easy. They won't complain if I make it too hard. Currently, the best students in the class are just barely keeping up. The worst students are doing poorly. Conclusion? No one's going to complain. Hehe... I also tutored the other math girl.
Evening: I went online and I will start writing code for an undisclosed project. The time is soon to come. Mwahahahahahahaha!!!
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 5) Total: 7
Good Night!
Monday, July 5, 2004--For some odd reason, I felt like playing the Sims, so I did. Now, I'm starting a family of 8, all girls (which is harder than a family of 4 girls and 4 guys, because I can't make them in love so they can share beds and bathrooms... but I'm using a slightly different system, which still works, but is prone to chokepoints...) Anyways, it's fun, etc, etc.
After lunch, Justin showed up to play some MTG. He wanted to test out that decklist the dude at the cardshop gave us. It was decent, but had a few bugs that needed to be corrected, the biggest of which is that there weren't enough targets to explode.
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 3) Total: 4
Good Night, people person thingies!
Sunday, July 4, 2004--
Happy Independence Day!!!
...wow, that used a lot of FONT tags... well, I hope it was worth it.
Anyways, I played much Xenogears today and had several "Holy shit!!!" moments. It was crazy. Disc 2 seems to be lacking, though.
Anyways, time to work on a not-so-secret project...
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 3) Total: 5
Good Nights!
Saturday, July 3, 2004--Today, I went and watched
Spiderman 2. It was pretty good. It delivered everything the trailers had promised, plus a little more, plus it was pretty faithful to the original comic. (Well, at least in contrast to some horrible comic movies, like Hulk and X-Men 2.) If you liked the original Spiderman, I recommend this to you wholeheartedly.
Other than that, I played more Xenogears.
Then, I had dinner with Jeffrey Ho and his family, but not Connie, because she was away for some thing.
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 4) Total: 5
Good Night!
Friday, July 2, 2004 - Addendum--Here's a bonus conversation with dad:
Me: *walks in from backyard* Rosebush is dead.
Dad: What? Really?
Me: Yeah... Well, at least no roses are growing on it, and there are barely any leaves.
Dad: Oh, I thought you said
George Bush is dead.
Friday, July 2, 2004--Hot Pot City for lunch. (No, Hot Pot City isn't a city. It's a restaurant. If you don't know what they serve, you suck.)
My brother is funny...
Dad: [says something about getting something in Chinese, which I misunderstand]
Me: What? Flamethrower?
Dad: No, hairthinner.
Franklin: Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. Thin your hair with a flamethrower.
Me: [discarding a scam letter] I do with these things what I do with junk mail.
Franklin: You mean burn them?
Me: Dude, no!
Dad: If it's a letter-bomb, you just detonated it.
Franklin: Don't worry, just use a
hairthinner.
Anyways, other than teaching Franklin physics and playing Xenogears, that's pretty much it for today. Speaking of which, I think I'll play some more Xenogears!
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 2) Total: 8
Good Night!
Thursday, July 1, 2004--"I thought you was sick?" "I got better."
Uhh... yeah... right...
Anyways, today involved resting in bed, playing Xenogears, updating my website... and... yeah... Good Night!
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 4) Total: 9