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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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26 June 2001 - 8:25 am
So many good things to report today. My RAM arrived yesterday. I had to drive down to the FedEx office and pick it up because they wouldn't leave it wihout a signature, but I was more than happy to do so. My computer now has 768megs of PC133 RAM. I had 384mb before the new stuff arrived, so I pulled the 128 meg stick, which I will put in my parents' new computer (i.e., my old computer).
What else do I have to report? Well, my monitor has finally shipped. TigerDirect isn't nice enough to provide tracking numbers, so I don't know exactly when it will arrive, but I'm thinking Thursday or Friday. Oddly, I checked my credit card statement online, and the temporary charge for the monitor has been removed from my account, but it wasn't added to the posted charges. (Temporary authorizations are used by merchants to see if an account is active and has the balance neccesary to complete the transaction.)
Well, that's all that occurs to me to relate to you. I'll leave you now with a small passage from David Sedaris's new book Me Talk Pretty One Day, where he discusses his younger brother, who has given himself the nickname Rooster:
My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. "I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase," she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into he skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the dining-room table. "It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky to have him."
Posted by on 26 June 2001 at 8:25 AM
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