We’re going to get a DSL connection here at my parent’s house. This will enable me to do work for my new job (did I mention that it’s a telecommuting position?) without having to put up with the 30-second lag time that I sometimes get when working in a telnet window. Hopefully, it will be in within a couple weeks and I can stop surreptitiously working from the tek room. That’s my news. Now on to the rest of my family:
Annie sprained her ankle at work. It was bad enough that yesterday she went to the doctor, who gave her codeine, a brace, and orders to stay off her feet for a few days. She’s currently doped up and sitting in my Dad’s armchair, watching comedy central. But she does seem to be doing well, and the doctor thinks she’ll be doing alright in a matter of weeks.
Ryan gave us a call a few nights ago, letting us know that one of his so-called friends had punched him in the face to convince him not to get married. Apparently, he has a small group of these friends who are convinced that getting married to Molli is the worst possible thing he could do, and when trying to talk him out of it failed, they threatened violence. One of these friends came to visit, and after letting Ryan buy him a drink, walked outside with him and punched him in the face. Then he ran away, shouting profanities behind him. It’s a big mess, and basically we’re all just confused about what’s going on. I’m sure ryan will post the details to his journal at some point, so I’ll let him tell the story on his own.
Plus, Steve’s been sick all week, Miles is on the verge of being deported, and my Mom’s having troubles with her boss. HAPPY OCTOBER, EVERYONE! Things can only get better from here!
sean
‘miles is on the verge of being deported’I'm sure it’ll be disappointing, but details please! The world wants to know!Oh, and we have the new LOTR trailer up on three screens right now, which means when it’s slow on Thursday and I can get away from the box often, I could, theoretically, watch it 9 times. On the big screen.I won’t, but it’s cool to know that I could. In a couple weeks, when Nathaniel retools the trailer reels more, we should end up with it on 4 or 5 screens, maybe even all of them.
scott
Well, to be honest, I was exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect. sorry. Miles is just having a bit of trouble with his VISA and some mix-up from PSU. I think I’ll let him post the details if he feels like it, since I’d get them wrong.
KT
AND I AM SICK, TOO..DON’T FORGET THAT!
miles
blarg. here it istourist visa == 90 days, after which you’re illegal.no diploma == no work visaPSU == no diploma until the bearaucracy spits it out weeks from now, assuming they don’t make me take some makework class before they give it upAikido == cultural visa, allowing me to work enough to live in Tokyo. But it takes time to go through Japan’s beauracracy.Nov. 4th = back in LANov. 5th = back in PortlandNov. 8th = leave PDX, go back to Tokyo and hope they let me in on the grounds that I’m an Aikido student, not some free-loading third worlder who just wants into Japan to sell bogus phone cards. "sure you are… sure. Two tourist visas in a row, eh, buddy? So that’s your game?" "It’s not a game, dammit! Look, here’s my membership card to the Aikido world headquarters dojo, right here!" "Hmm, this looks like the same type of paper as certain PHONE CARDS…" "Dammit just cavity search me and get it over with! If this was america, I’d already be staggering painfully to a taxi by now!" "If you like america so much, why don’t you go back, eh?" "I told you, I’m an aikidoka" "hadoken!" "tatsu-maki?@sen?[pu?[r‚™u-kick!" "You have practiced the senpuryu-kick well, ok, here’s your tourist visa." etc etc…