Found and Lost and Found
Firefox did something to me it has never done before: crashed. I was not upset about it at the time. Later, I realized I lost an entire post to my bad luck. I’ve been unbelievably happy with that program, and I had left it open for three plus days doing a wide variety of things; no software is perfect. I’m going to write again, but I will not try to recall what I wrote before; the current stream-of-consciousness leanings of this journal have been helpful for me, if boring for you. Those visiting for CSS/XHTML thoughts, feel free to take a look at this past February 11th for more than enough technical jargon.
Saturday night was the kind of night in which you drive around with the windows down and the heat on. It was a cold night for August, but it felt good to drive back from St. Thomas and enjoy summer freedoms. The day before that was a good day for taking a late-night walk and having a great time. Thinking of it inevitably puts a grin on my face.
College prep has been the catch-phrase lately. After my summer chem, I re-registered (which was a colossal pain in the patoot) and am now unofficially a BioChem major. There is a high probability that, as I get closer to dental school and further from my “roots” as a coder, tumbledry may evolve into a journal of my professional school journey. Don’t worry, I come to tumbledry to entertain myself, too. I won’t put you to sleep.
Among the miscellaneous errands required was book purchasing. I more than halved last year’s book cost and triumphantly checked out. To the sound of a riotous crowd, I signed my credit card receipt with a flourish, threw my new purchases into my bag, and (as the cheering grew to a deafening roar) sprinted from the premises shouting “Freedom! You’ll never take away my freedom!” In actuality, it was nothing like that. However, I did find ten (10) cents in the form of a single coin (a dime) and realized I had just experienced an instant discount. You could call the trip a success.
Coincidentally, Richard was on campus at the exact same time, putting the finishing touches on some new library furniture. That makes two people (Adam, Richard) that worked in wood this summer. I’m pretty sure that if I grouped all my friends together, we could build a house (and, with Matt and John’s help, fix all the problems and landscape, to boot). Anyone need a house?
Miscellaneous other facts: tumbledry’s background changed recently, did you notice? My first name was almost not Alexander but Benjamin. Since I started keeping track, we have logged just over 16,000 visits to this front page. The pound sign on the telephone is called an octothorp.