Friday, January 4, 2002
I sent this email today: "Hi—i just woke up but i'm trying to catch up on email. very groggy right now. what's new? i'm reading the 4th harry potter book. it's huge, have you seen it? i'm on page 517 or something. good stories. we saw Lord of the Rings thursday nite—very very good but the ending disappointed me. we also saw Harry Potter on xmas day—that was fun, too. lately we've been playing a lot of scrabble. i bought P deluxe scrabble for xmas—writers, you know, they love word games. i've been winning every game from the start—about 6 games now. last night, i beat him 399 to 159. he's not very happy about it—blames it on bad luck of drawing bad letters. last night's game for instance, he was drawing all vowels and i was drawing all consonants. he says statistically my winning streak must end, so today i have a little statistics lesson for him. :-) what else? we're still wanting to leave SF and California primarily because of the cost of living and incommensurate salary. we don't know where yet, tho. my web server (frankfarm.org) is still down because speakeasy has failed 3 months after i notified them we were moving to get our dsl line installed, so we're resorting to another broadband method. at home we've had nothing but dialup since we moved in Nov 1—it's been painful—and only on patrick's computer since i couldn't get the line sharing thing to work across the network in windows. we got plenty of great gifts, but i've now grown sleepy again and very hungry. i'm still keeping the journal, so you'll be able to catch up if you want when the server is back up. okay, good night!" Dinner: braised beef with garlic, boiled spinach with boiled egg slices and paprika. Scrabble with Patrick.