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Monday, Monday, (la la, la la-la) so good to see.
Posted Aug 30, 1999
It is a beautiful day here in PA. It was 50 degrees farenheit walking to school, and I was wearing shorts. Makes you feel good to be alive. 
Today I get my cable modem, I have already made progress at work, and I attend my one class at 11:15. It doesn't get any better than this.
I love Mondays! 
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Just like grade school
Posted Aug 25, 1999
This morning, while diligently chewing a bagel at Irvings, I hear a voice.
"Hello, Joe," the voice said.
I looked up to see the face of a teammate of mine in the summer frisbee league I participated in. Being the trusting and sensitive soul that at times like this I wish I wasn't, a look of pleasant suprise washed over my face.
"Hi, Jeremy," I replied expecting a frendly conversation with someone I apparantly annoyed more than once with my actions on the field.
He had gone out of his way to point this fact out to me twice during the season. I toned down my shouts, and I thought it was left on the field.
"So I see you embarrased us one last time with that email to Charlie," Jeremy said with a look of condesention that made me want to hit him with a chair, "You know, everyone who played found out about about that email."
I sent the orginizer of the league an email saying that I thought that the end of the season tournament was unnecessarily grueling. He had obviously taken it personally and tried to hurt me by telling everyone on my team about the email in his own words.
"If you're here to bust on me then leave. I don't need to hear this." I managed to keep my composure somewhat, but I could feel my face form itself into a look of painful seriousness.
He left after another minute, once he figured he was not going to get anything to argue about out of me.
That hurt me. Not because Jeremy had told me he was embarrased and that I was a jerk, but because he inferred that other people on the team agreed with him. I liked my teammates, and respect most of their opinions.
I got this feeling in the pit of my stomach, and it is still there now. It feels like the floor just dropped out from under me. I want to cry.
I had almost forgotten the sadness, the loneliness, and the rage I felt as a child when someone made fun of me. I'm sick of this feeling. I want it to go away.
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5 days older, 4 teeth less wise
Posted Aug 23, 1999
Yep, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Wednesday and Friday (one side each day). I would be eating solid foods by now if the medicine didn't hurt my esophagus indirectly (by causing my stomach to shoot acid up it, not throwing up). Now everything I swallow gives me a pleasant explosive burning sensation before it reaches my stomach.
But enough complaining.
Wednesday starts the Fall Semester of my senior year. I am now at a crossroads of my life, and I can tell you that it is pretty scary.
Further updates will follow.
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The August 15th Massacre
Posted Aug 16, 1999
Yesterday, I murdered many innocent mildew along with their entire famlies.
I'm known as the Bathroom Bandit in this neck of the woods. Armed with nothing more than my Tilex six-shooter and my Scrubbing Bubbles bazooka, I fought an army's worth of domestic mildew.
They didn't stand a chance.
Tilex to the left of them Bubbles to the right of them, all in the bathtub of death.
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Macrohard
Posted Aug 13, 1999
You know, it is interesting to see that Microsoft won't let up even when they are in court for anti-trust violations.
My Office 2000 update forces you to install Internet Explorer 5.
I know what you're thinking. Didn't I just write about how I installed IE 5, because it worked better with h2g2? Yes, I did. But it is the principle of the matter. I installed only the browser, because I know that the Wintel alliance is hard at work finding useless integrated "improvements" to Windows 98 (or as I like to call it, Windows 95.1) to tie up RAM and processor time.
When I recieve a piece of Microsoft software I only install what I need to survive.
I'm tired of Microsoft creating bloatware. There has to be a way to defeat them.
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