The Death Throes of a Palm Pilot

Yesterday, I managed to crash my Palm Pilot. Not just any minor crash, where some minor bits of data are lost but all can be restored by pressing the "reset" button on the back and synchronizing with your desktop computer; no, I managed to get it to the point where it flashed the dangerous message: [...]

Road Ramblings

Traffic on Highway 80 was slow this morning around about Mace Boulevard in Davis. There was an accident earlier this morning and so I sat in my car sipping my latté and thinking that it was already warm enough outside to consider using my car’s air conditioner, and it was only 7:15 a.m.
Traffic [...]

Code Code Code

This is the first computer-related class I’ve ever taken, this class in Programming Java from University Extension. Well, okay, I took a class in Pascal when I was in high school, but let’s be honest: who in the world ever programmed in Pascal except for high school proto-nerds like myself? First-year college proto-nerds, I guess, [...]

The Little Engine

The alternate ending to the story of the Little Engine that Could is far more realistic, you know. That’s the ending where the little engine chugs his way halfway up the hill, only to find that the combined weight of all of the cars that are attached to its rear is way too heavy. The [...]

If Collab: All the Money

If collab: If you had all the money you would ever need…and more, what would you do with your life? What would be your motivation to get out of bed everyday?

I whine about being poor, and I whimper about never having enough. Who doesn’t? I haven’t known [...]

Coming Home

Current location: Home

In Amsterdam, the lines were long and the airport was crowded, and there was advertisements for a particular major software company on just about every pillar. Foolish me, I thought that with a 2.5 hour layover, I might even have a chance to step outside of the airport and at [...]

Today is the Day (II)

Current Location: Coming Home

Anticipation
Planning for my trip, buying travel equipment, making plane reservations, saving money.

Sadness
Sitting in the airport in San Francisco with Jennifer next to me, my arm around her shoulders, knowing I wouldn’t be seeing her again for another month.

Excitement
Looking out the window of the airplane and seeing Dublin for the very first time.

Stepping [...]

Cramming

Current Location: London, England

I arrived in London yesterday evening and, immediately after unloading my stuff at the hotel I’d reserved, started wandering around to see what I could see. My top priority, of course, was locating an Internet café so that I could communicate with Jennifer and post these final journal entries. Then [...]

That Big City

Current Location: London, England

Two days left. Less, really, since my flight to Amsterdam is in about 36 hours. I’m coming into the home stretch.

It’s hard to believe that I’ve been traveling for four weeks. I look back and there’s a lot that I’ve done: wandering Dublin, looking for the [...]