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We’ll, it’s that time of year – “Dads and grads” as the evil corporate minds of greeting card companies like to call it. Reflecting on this time of year it came as a big shock to realize that, “wow, this happens every year and has happend every year, and will happen every year for a long time to come.” That thought was immediatly followed by, “Then it’s really not that special.” Well, it’s special if your the one graduating, but after that … just a way of life I guess. So far I’ve been to three. I think that’s all I have. No, wait, there’s another one next week but thankfu … er …sadly I’ll have to miss it because of a trip to TN that we’re taking as a family. And, unless I’m mistaken, I will have only one more year and all my friends will have ‘passed over the river’, so to speak and graduated.

Anyways, mad props to Philip (Kelley) for 1) graduating 2) having it outside 3) no telling me that it was outside and 4) having it in the rain. Thankfully, we moved inside after I’d sat in the rain for 20 min. Props to Jamie (Baughman), Rachel (Wright), and Korrie (Blanchard) for also graduating. Jocelyn (Young) and Adria (Wiley) advanced props on yours.

Jamie definately had the biggest fan section at her graduation. Nobody else stood up and hollered for a graduate. What devoted fans she has. I worked all day Friday on my graudation presents. I’d tell y’all what they were but Adria and Jocelyn have yet to get theirs.

But, all this graduation partying has me exhausted. We stayed out till 2:00 AM at Rachel’s house after her graduation. We wanted to go bowling but it had closed.

Horay! I finally got to see Korrie’s dad after 6+ years of knowing her.

If I thought hard enough, I’d probably come up with more interesting tidbits, but I’m not going to. Right now I have to go and research bills. I was drafted into being a lobbyiest for a Christian apologetics and worldview camp that I’m working at. I have to lobby both pro and con for both bills. I’m a bit intimidated.

Well, how do you like the new look?

Oh, and the comment system works now. You can actually post. Stupid webhost.

Ok, I survived. That anesthesia stuff is really great. You don’t know when you go out or wake up … it’s just … like it never happened, except for that horrid pain in your mouth. The pain isn’t bad until the next day. Goodness, it aches. And you can’t eat. That would be fine, if you weren’t as hungry, but you are! And you can’t eat. It’s pretty bad. I’m sick of McDonalds triple-thick milkshakes. Four in three days. They seem to get worse and worse, and I’m very skepticle about this whole “triple-thick” deal. It seems to have the viscosity of a normal shake to me.

In the past few days I’ve eatten: yogurt, milkshakes, soup, mashed potatoes, and french fries. I’ve tried nibbling a few things but it does make the mouth hurt. And I’m supposed to swish around nasty salt water in my mouth. Salt is good. Water is good. But, together it isn’t.

As I was feeling a tad wealthy today I bought myself a new Samsung Syncmaster 15″ LCD display for my desk. I’m also planning on building up a Shuttle XPC. Those babies are hot. Nice and small. Now I’m feeling rather poor though. I don’t know how much longer the ol’ laptop is going to hang in there. I have 1 more year worth of warranty and I want to be prepared after that. ‘Sides, image editing on an 800×600 is a bit cramped.

I don’t really have much to talk about. But, I guess I’m feeling guilty. I’m not sure what for, but I am. So, here goes nothing.

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Um, yeh. It was a good day. Of sorts. Mowed grass. With glasses on. I don’t normally do that, now I know why. Need to wear contacts from now on. Glasses slip … sweat … not good. But, it did feel nice (in a certain sense) to get all grubby and nasty. Sweaty and covered in grass clippings. Then I discovered that my car needed an oil change. I actually meant to do it … I went and got the filter and all, but just didn’t do it. Next week. Instead I washed the car. And got all wet and soapy. Not nearly as wet and soapy as David (my youngest brother – almost 2). That child was fascinated by the bucket of water – I mean really. He probably played in that for 30+ minutes (that’s a long time for anything for him). At least we now know a simple and cheap way of entertaining him. I got some pictures. Perhaps they’ll go up sometime.

Of course, the whole bad part of the day was that I didn’t do much. Nothing really. Nothing too useful. No robots built. No studying done. I did get my mother a Mothers Day gift – a dogwood tree. I felt very loving and much like a good son. I’m glad I caught her subtle hints.

I need to go to downtown Durham and take some pictures. But, I have a vague fear of getting mugged down there. We were out there on Friday night and it called to me … It really called. Where we were was right near the police station so I guess you couldn’t be in too much danger. But I definitely want to get out there before the summer is over.

… Speaking of summer … I’ve only got two more school days till I’m out. I actually thought it was three, and that I had all Monday to study for my Calculus 3 test. But, it occured to me today that the test was on Monday. Oh the horror. I hate studying on Sunday. It never works well.

I pulled a B in PE. There goes the whole Deans List deal. Oh well.

My computer is 30% fragmented and has spent most of the day chugging on the HD without any reason. It’s not out of RAM nor is the CPU at full usage. So, right now I’m doing a defrag. Unfortunately, in order to run efficiently it needs 15% free disk space. What’s the deal with that? I’ve only got 4%. Suppose you want to defrag and FREE UP SPACE? Sheesh …

I think there was something profound I had to say, but I forgot it. Perhaps it was me observing that I just don’t think I’ll ever be a good blogger. I just don’t have the time. Days like today are the ones where I wish I were a bit more “normal” and didn’t have quite so much to do or so many different ‘hobbies’ to occupy my time. I think I’m just going to have to get to the end of my life to truly decide if all that I’ve done was worth it. Building robots, running multiple websites, pictures, e-mail, mandolin, piano, friends, drama … more drama, computers, programming, art … I mean. I think I could have been pretty happy checking e-mail and playing video games all day. Well, I guess the real kicker is the website. It’s all an uphill battle. I just hope it gues uphill – sometime.