Where to start? Well, with the beginning, I suppose. At around 6:30 Thursday my DSL line ceased to function and despite the best efforts of the Earthlink support team will remain so until either Verizon, who handles the hardwired side of it, can fix it, or forever. For the purposes of this journal, as I will explain further on, that is largely ( Read more... )

It's been over a week since my last journal entry, so everyone, myself included, has been certainly wondering... where did I go? School started as of last Wednesday, and I've been sort of busy. Lots of minor but interesting events up until now. I'm currently sitting around in a computer lab until my 6PM class starts ( Read more... )

Since I set out to repair Turing, a number of things have jumped up out of the woodwork and pissed me off. I hope that venting them on here will calm me down ( Read more... )

Well, it's 1/2/2000. Yesterday and the night before were too busy to allow me to log on. A bit has happened since then, some of it interesting, some of it not ( Read more... )

Hmmmm.... where to start ( Read more... )

Well, I already broke my promise to make this a daily thing. That's okay, no more promises to be made. A number of unpleasant things happened in the last few days, and I'm having problems keeping up ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back from the family outing that uses the Christmas season to draw together distant relatives into the proximity of one house. Problems are forgotten, distant cousins and close cousins play together, the grown-ups talk and joke, and randomly assigned grab-bag gifts are given and received. It's great ( Read more... )

This is the first entry in what I hope to make a regular part of my routine. This journal will not be edited for content nor will it hide any details. I feel that by putting a pen to paper and inking my life in public view, I will find some peace that I cannot achieve through keeping my thoughts to myself ( Read more... )