1 April 2002
April fools.
Oh wait, this is a real update. I changed the link style to make it simpler for me. I also [this time] successfully implemented a Cascading Style Sheet to take care of how the pages look. Since not all browsers support CSS, the site may not look quite the same in IE or Netscape. However, I like CSS far better than my other options, so either live with it or make your life easier and switch to Mozilla.
Spring Break was everything it should have been. Choir trip to Chicago was interesting: not perfect but full of positives here and there. Iowa was Iowa. I saw friends and my family. I hit a deer with my car. I donated blood. I avoided mental exercise for 10 days. It was good.
The review section of the site is now up and running. Although available to all, this is mainly for me. Check it out if you like. It's at the top and bottom of the page between the Online Confrontations and the Tribute Pages.
I believe that is all for now. Have an enjoyable third term. Except for those bastards at normal colleges. To you I say, have a horrible fifteen days or whatever ridiculously small amount of school you have left.
2 April 2002
I won the Tecmo Bowl.
The first day of classes was pretty good. I am now rapidly building up my sleep debt. Good night.
3 April 2002
It needs to stop snowing and be spring. I think today was as cold as it will be for a while but it is kind of depressing. Hopefully I will be wearing shorts next week.
Maryland beat Indiana 64-52 to win the national championship in case you live under a rock.
I started my spring term video game conquest in style last night beating the New York Giants with my Los Angeles Raiders. Marcus Allen took MVP honors but Bo Jackson deserves special recognition as well. He scored at least 5 touchdowns against the Cleveland Browns in the first week of the playoffs. That was the first game I beat, and I am now working on Marble Madness. Hopefully tomorrow night's update will include another picture of my victorious Nintendo exploits.
Go home.
4 April 2002
I got the power up and won the game.
And got the high score.
I think I will attempt a real video game next [not emulated] so there will be not pictures but I will still be excited. I don't want to type anymore.
5 April 2002
Sadly there was no game winning tonight. I am hard at work on Tetris Attack Puzzle Mode but that may take a while. Hopefully I will be able to add all the games I beat to the review section, as I should know them well enough by then.
We went to Petricka's tonight and I picked up 20 oz. of cheese puffs [Earl's!], 8 Cadbury eggs and a York peppermint patty for $3.87. Hopefully I will get sensations from all products and not just the last one. Now it is time to turn our hearts and minds to something a little more serious:
Super Nintendo.
9 April 2002
Yesterday was indeed my birthday. I ate cake and talked to my parents and played badminton and defeated Tetris Attack puzzle mode. That however only opened up the extra second half so I shall keep playing.
I slept through German today and it was wonderful. I also discovered a new version of Tetris. Entertaining, to say the least. I am done with my homework. Yeah.
11 April 2002
I saw Ghost World tonight at Film Society, loved it, and reviewed it. Tomorrow is the first German test of the term. Hopefully it also starts out with a bang, and not a whimper. Classes go well, life goes well, being 19 goes well. Not perfect, that would be boring, but I can't say I have any major complaints with the universe as it stands at the moment. Oh, and I invented time travel today. Sort of.
Two updates in one day! Actually this is just occurring because I changed the way in which I date my updates. But I digress...
It was rainy and not warm today but I still enjoyed it. It's nice when it's gray, not least because no one thinks it's weird not to be outside instead of inside. The Singers did a mini-concert for the Accepted Students, as we will next week. It went pretty well, we sounded good thanks in part to Great Hall acoustics, and the rest of the term doesn't look too bad, especially if Wintermesse is decent. Afterward I picked up new CDs like Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile along with Black Sabbath's Greatest Hits, Violent Femmes' Greatest Hits and Deftones' Around The Fur. $34. Not bad. I am done with my homework, though I could do more. I think now I shall transcend.
Mmmmm. That's nice.
13 April 2002
Today was good. The weather was good. Little Shop Of Horrors was good. Hedwig And The Angry Inch was good. Dinner, not so much, but that's expected. This weekend looks like a lot of homework but hopefully that will be leavened by enjoyable times as well. To the weekend.
14 April 2002
An interesting day to be sure. Two hours of procrastination that included buying tickets for Twins vs. Indians next Friday and downloading the finalized version of the new Weezer. Homework, work [156 minutes!], pool with Liz and Allison, Balderdash in the Room, and Gods and Monsters with Summer. Finally an engaging evening [1:30-3:30] of conversation. Work is approaching soon so I will probably sleep or something. I also added some reviews to the review section and changed the scale which you can note at the top of its page. I think this is the latest update of the term.
I am glad that my Writing paper pretty much wrote itself. Hopefully it will also revise itself and turn itself in before 9 am tomorrow morning. Luckily in Writing we have a sub on Wednesday and no class on Friday. The class is pretty decent and the professor interesting but variety is, after all, the spice of life. A trip to Ragstock with Summer and Max was foiled but I did manage to pick up some music at the library. I have to say the fact that the Simpson's was a rerun was a little disappointing but this season is so good that it doesn't even matter that much. To video games!
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22 April 2002
This was an awful post in which I displayed four pictures of my desktop.
23 April 2002
The room is finally in order although more changes may be in the near future. The couch is in place as well as the video games. Sadly, though, I think my streak of nights sleeping on the couch may end at two. It was not quite as comfortable last night as it was Sunday night.
Hopefully I will be cleaning up the code for the site today, so although no one else may notice it, I will be a lot happier. Here is a nice image for today:
24 April 2002
Hmmm, it seems as if I have lost Sunday 21 April 2002's update. I don't know why I got rid of it, but I did. Much of the site has been overhauled but still much of it is not fully functional. I think this weekend I should have some time to finish it off as I won't have too much homework. Tonight I will still have to study for Microeconomics, which sucks because I am terrible at studying. Hopefully I figure it out.
The site is now teal. It may return to olive at some point in the future. If you feel like it, send the color or background of your choice to me and I may decide to use that instead.
I think I will commence my studying now, so for further enjoyment, head over to Cliff Yablonski's Vault of Loathing and see how many pages you can sit through at one time. I dare you.
25 April 2002
Continuing my string of random deletions, I accidentally got rid of 17 hours of music from my computer last night. Download.com only offers file-recovery programs that limit themselves to 64kb files. I only managed to recover about 6 and a half hours sadly. I am now going to mourn.
26 April 2002
Today was moderately uneventful. The econ test went. I got my homework done. I surfed the web. I played Popeye, Dr. Mario and Lost Vikings II. Tomorrow is Hogan Bros. The forecast for the weekend is delicious. Mmmmmmmm...weekend. Enjoy this game, or this one and the source of the image below. Why not just play all the SeeThru games. I only had time for two.
27 April 2002
The weather sucks. Last night was fun. Today has been interesting. I haven't much to say. But the Guardian does.
28 April 2002
I finally got the entire site cleaned up. The links are all good, the code is clean and the background is indeed teal. If you can find any problems, send them to me.
Tonight, despite the weather, was absolutely wonderful. I would take every day with weather ten times this bad if only they could turn out like today. You only wish you knew. Goodnight, and here is another image from Lomography.
I got Paint Shop Pro from Max today. That is how I got the new background which utilizes a reduced contrast and the new banner which utilizes a great many features of the program. Homework and laundry are done, first floor study break was tasty and good. I ate Sun Chips today, they were good.
30 April 2002
I can't believe I just studied three hours of German. I better get at least a B on that test. But studying is not bad with company.
Here it is, with surprisingly little fanfare: The Wesley Willis Song of the Day. Just click the link at the bottom to get the .mp3 file. Try it. You may like it. [Obviously it's not there anymore.]