Pete's Log: yummy AmberBock
Entry #1061, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
I awoke bright and early at 6:30 this a.m. Extraordinary! Ramzi Bualuan asked me yesterday if I could teach cse 232 for him this morning. I agreed and was then informed the class was at 8 am. oof. I mean granted, I'm pretty diurnal these days, but not that diurnal. But I made it and all went well, I covered the 'this' pointer and operator overloading.
My early afternoon was rather frustrating, somewhere along the line the expense report I filed for USENIX got messed up, so I had to redo it. However, Dr Freeh had me write it up in a spreadsheet this time, and the template I was given was a StarOffice template. So I spent several hours trying to get StarOffice installed on my machine, to no avail. "Dear StarOffice: You Suck! Love, Pete"
I finally gave up and ran it on a sun and eventually got a new expense report filed.
I soon thereafter gave up on accomplishing anything today so I wandered over to Rebecca's office. I ended up wasting away several hours in the math building, I went to the afternoon tea the math grad students do and met several more math grads. Rebecca had made plum bread for this event, it was superb, I had three pieces. We also explored the HHH roof.
I rented Independence Day over the weekend. For quite some time now I'd had a desire to see it again. The DVD ended up being the special edition: it had both the regular version and a director's cut. I'd forgotten how much I like this movie, I find it quite entertaining. The director's cut was typical: some of the unseen scenes were good and some weren't so good. There was an entire new subplot dealing with Russel's family that was not so good, I'm glad they cut it from the final release. But there were some funny scenes that I think would've done well in the final release.
George showed up at 19ish. He's on his way to Michigan to get an apartment and is spending the night here. We had dinner at Hacienda (yummy yummy wet burritos) then tracked down Lisa at her apartment. That ended up being kinda shady. Later we hit Heartland for a little while. They were having some kind of bikini contest sponsored by wrbr, which was entertaining. On our way home we stopped at the new Taco Bell in Roseland. We weren't really hungry, but it was a new Taco Bell, we had to initiate it.