I’ve only been back a few days and already I’m taking off again. In case you didn’t know, Sam and I are going to the Rush concert down at the Sandstone Amphitheater in Bonner Springs, KS. I hope it’s awesome.
Somebody tell me how to ask a girl out, besides just getting drunk enough to not be scared anymore.
steve :: Jul.31.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I’m back.
steve :: Jul.27.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
Well, we’re leaving tomorrow for RAGBRAI(Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa). I’ll see everyone in a week I guess. Hopefully I’ll survive the experience, and come out a better man on the other side. It should be interesting…
Sam, don’t forget about Rush in two weeks!
To everyone else: have a great week!
steve :: Jul.19.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
We went fishing last night out by Frasier. Cliff and Ryan had put out a line baited with chicken liver in hopes of bringing in a bunch of catfish, but there was nothing on any of the hooks when we got there. We fished on the river for a few hours, but only brought in five fish, all of them small. Cliff and Jacque went home, but Ryan and I got some more chicken livers and went out to Peterson’s Pits to try our luck with the catfish over there. After first getting lost, we finally found the spot Robert showed me a few weeks ago. I pulled in an 18 inch cat, the biggest fish I’ve ever personally caught. I have a picture here, if you want to see my two (hopefully tasty) fish.
I took some pictures while we were out on the (I think Des Moines) river by Frasier. They have been added to the Photographs section.
steve :: Jul.13.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
God damn mother f#*king jury duty.
Happy birthday Jessica.
steve :: Jul.11.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
God help me I’m back in Windows.
To all you weird people who left town for the weekend: welcome back.
Dreamweaver MX is nice, but it’s huge! Who the hell needs so much freaking stuff? I suppose it might be useful for someone making a huge site with fancy gizmos and whatsits, but for me it’s just unnecessary.
Tomorrow I’m probably going to reboot back into the BeOS. It’s so much faster and cleaner. It doesn’t support quite as much stuff, but it’s very nice and quick and fun to use. At the very least I’m not going to delete my BeOS partition like I did last time without first backing it up. After all, it has some very nice software (Gobe Productive anyone?) and took a long time to get set up the way I like it. Why bother trying to search for and download all that stuff again?
steve :: Jul.07.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I’m currently doing most of my computing using the BeOS again. I can’t wait until OpenBeos is complete. They’re making visible progress and I’m very excited for the future.
I finished Ico today. The ending was very cool, though very Japanese. There never seems to be a “hey, it’s happy” ending in any of these newer Japanese games. Instead it feels more like “it might just turn out happy, but we’re not actually going to tell you.” They leave you hanging rather than telling you the full story. That can be kind of upsetting, really.
We got some more rain today. I don’t yet know how much, but it will be good for the plants outside and everything at work. Many things were looking very pathetic and sad before the rain last Thursday, and weren’t looking much better. One or two more days like today, spaced out over the next week or so, would be wonderful.
I reordered the pictures in the Photographs section so that the newest ones would appear first. Now all I need is to post some new photos.
steve :: Jul.06.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
There was some crazy rain up by Story City last night. It looked like it wouldn’t rain but then the wind shifted and it started pouring. In the end over 1.5 inches of rain fell up there. Ames apparently got a lot less rain. The weather station at work recorded 0.52 inches and the station at the airport just 0.19 inches. It was pretty much a freak storm.
I got completely fed up (again) with Linux, and I decided to give up and install BeOS R5 on the partition I was using instead. I had forgotten how awesome the BeOS is. What really impressed me is that the guys working on the Mozilla port have managed to make it load and run fast. The last time I used it (around Mozila 0.86) it pretty much sucked. Now it’s a port of Mozilla 1.0 and it’s really really nice. Most web pages now look exactly right, rather than the “it’s sort of readable” I used to put up with.
steve :: Jul.05.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I took a new picture while I was at work. It’s now posted in the Photographs section of the site. It’s kind of pretty, even though it’s a weed.
I added a few more photographs to the site. I took several while I was out on my bike ride today. I took a few more flower pictures, but the light was kind of low and none of them turned out quite as nice as the ones I’ve already posted. My personal favorate for today is the one of the old barn in the park out by Northridge.
I added a link to Sarah’s page today. I’m thinking about reorganizing the Photographs pages so that the newest pictures show up first. Please let me know what you think about that idea.
steve :: Jul.02.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
I went fishing with Ryan today after work. I wasn’t having much luck with the bluegills (I cought some fish that could have been bait themselves) so I got out the $2 bass lure I bought the last time I was at Cabela’s and cought a crappie and a bass (both keepers). I tried to fillet the bass, but I didn’t get as much meat as I should have. In my defense I’ve never filleted a fish before.
I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to move this site away from tables and toward CSS, but I didn’t have much luck. Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and Opera all disagree on how the same code should be presented. Additionally, Opera doesn’t support the really cool way I was going to do my archives. They would act like frames, without frames, and be less evil.
Oh well.
steve :: Jul.01.2002 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
