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I sailed out to Alaska this past week on a cruise. Never seen so much ice in my entire life. We had good luck for almost all of the trip. Not cold at all, like 60degF out on the decks. Only one day of seasickness and one day of serious rain in Juneau. (About weather forecasting in Alaska - they say if you can't see the mountains, it's raining ( Read more... )

I got three lifelines - phone-a-friend, ask-the-AIM, and wait-out-the-show-until-it's-over-so-i-can-go-and-pee-and-secretly-look-up-the-answer. My whole world has shrunk from all of the Alaskan seas (well, the warm sunny ones anyway) to my family room. I'm using all three lifelines for the last two weeks. Who wants some email? Not from their ( Read more... )

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish ( Read more... )

Gotta love it. I have found, delayed after LIFE, the funky goodness that is the Swift. Yum. Supposedly it sounds much like Ben Folds Five, though I would not know.

Moshing machine ( Read more... )

Telling - The second thing that I do, on my new computer, online, is install AIM. The first is to write here ( Read more... )

IBM Notebook ThinkPad R51 ( Read more... )

Upon arriving back from Arizona, I have fallen into a sleepy mistiness that defies coherent words to penetrate it. But it's a funny thing, this conference of LIFE 2004. There's such a contrast between the relentlessly public arena in Phoenix where everyone, youth ten thousand strong, is cheering and praising and listening and praying, and when I' ( Read more... )

I'm going to type an excerpt from my journal at Life 2004, Phoenix, AZ. It's hot. I'm with people from the youth group in my church, Gaithersburg Chinese Alliance Church. I'm trying to write my way out of some of the things I'm thinking through.

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