Tuesday, August 1, 2006

So it turns out that being home is boring when none of your friends are around. Today my folks went up to Olympia to fiddle with the boat a little, then went up to Tacoma (not Seattle as I so recently found out...) to hang out with my brother and Sherill as they opened wedding presents. They had a huge pile of them. Apparently they received like ten Target gift cards, which amused my dad to no end. My bro seems to be really happy, and I'm happy for him. I'm glad he found someone to spend his life with. I like the guy.

So while my parents were gone, I met up with my friend Michael who I haven’t seen in two years. He's Mormon, and was missioning in Georgia (the state, not the country) for the last two years. It sounds like he had fun doing it, and looks at it as a good experience. I think that most Mormon missionaries feel that way, and I think in part its because its the first time for many of them to be completely out from under their parents for an extended period of time. Mike went to college for a year before he went on his mission, but while the first year away is a step in the right direction, it certainly isn't like being away from them for two years straight as you talk to a bunch of strangers trying to convince them that they've been living their life all wrong up till now. In any case, it was good to see Mike again. We grabbed some Burgerville lunch (good stuff. The chain should get bigger and plunk down a store in Pullman) and went to see the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie. After talking to Mike about his missioning for so long before the movie, I laughed my ass off when one of the two stooges was "reading" a Bible upside down, and the other told him that he couldn't read, to which the first replied, "Its the Bible, you get credit for trying." Good stuff.

I ran three miles today. Turns out you sweat a lot when you do that. It felt good though. It was nice to be able to use the treadmill after 9:00 (since my folks weren't home to go to sleep.) I've decided that Cortni is right; treadmills really don't give you the same exercise that regular running does. But it sure beats the heck out of doing nothing.

I amused myself for about three hours watching random videos on youtube.com. There are a bunch of spoofs on the "Hi, I'm a PC. And I'm a mac..." ads. A guy that reminds me a lot of Sean Collison pops in and says "I'm Linux!" and the other two don't like him.
Linux: You know, I run all the servers that you play your games on.
PC and Mac: WE DON"T CARE!
Linux: (sulking) I can shut down your entire subnet. I am /root!

It amused me anyway.