hey all,

if anyone is hungry and don't really feel like cooking today or tomorrow, swing by the Old Strathcona Save-On-Foods and buy a hotdog. It's yet another Young Life fundraiser and in case any of you were wondering, 100% of the funds raised go to the kids.

welcome home paras, pam, and jess!

Paras - you won not putting the last hotel on your credit card.

Pam - you don't drink beer!

i thought when you were jet lagged, you slept all the time.
Jess and Paras, i think we are the only ones who were up at 5 this morning.
actually i didn't get up till 6. must have been all that laziness our last day in frankfurt.
or maybe it was the beer.

I forget. What did winning paper-rock-scissors get me?

I don't think the world would explode. You'd have to work harder than that. Try working through something from this handy list.

Oh, and while I'm here, I'd like to point out that the problem with giving crazy people* an inch, is that they inevitably take a mile. Jack Thompson, the crazy* attorney, seems to believe that the Sims 2 contains offensive sexual content. (Never mind that EA is, in terms of content anyway, far more reputable than Rockstar (the GTA people)).

* - I don't normally write people off for being crazy, but for this nut, I happily make an exception. I mean, he ran against Janet Reno (Clinton-era Attorney General) for State Attorney in Florida on a campaign that accused her of being a closet lesbian suffering from mental side effects of Alzheimer's medication and being blackmailed by the Mafia. And that's just from Wikipedia.

His website is even better. Some of the gems:

• "A recent Gallup Poll found that any American teen who has played this one game [GTA: Vice City] is twice as likely to be engaged in an act of violence than those who have not played this one game."


• "In April 1999, eight days before Columbine, Jack Thompson appeared on national television to identify the role that shooter video games, specifically Doom, would play in future school shootings."


• "You can write Jack Thompson, 1172 South Dixie Hwy., Suite 111, Coral Gables, FL 33146. May God bless you in the meantime. If you have kids, have them start shooting hoops instead of humans."

Morning Paras! Yay company.

What do you think would happen if you plugged a N. American=>Europe converter into a Europe=>N. American converter into an mp3 player? Would it be really boring and just work or would the world explode? I'm hoping for #2

Guess it's a good thing I let you win paper-rocks-scissors that last morning then.

Wow. You know what's sweeter than waking up at 5:00 for no good reason? Discovering that you came within $35 of maxing out your credit card in Europe. It's nice to know that if exchange rates were different, I really would have been in trouble.

Gee, I didn't think not having your voltage converter would actually keep you up at night.