Friday, May 31, 1996 Here it is 11:30 or so on a Saturday night, andI’m sitting here at a Pentium using Windows 95 (I suppose that’s a given) and wondering what I’m going to do with this document after I finish typing for the night. I suppose I could figure out the printer. I wonder if I can remember how to delete documents on an IBM (and on a Macified one at that). (Microsoft Word doesn’t seem to like the word “Macified.” It’s got it underlined in red squiggles.) I’ve been sitting at a computer monitor more or less all…
I’m here… safe and sound. Heh.. more or less… It rained almost all the way to the Georgia line. Downpour most of it. I’m glad I didn’t wash my car beforehand. Even though I don’t believe in air conditioning (just a conspiracy of freon manufacturers), I used it on Stalin’s behalf. But while it rained, I didn’t have to use it, so that was nice. I stopped four times. Twice to fill up the car and twice to empty me. Got here in Charlotte, NC in about nine hours. The car seems to have held up quite well. But then…
I did something exceedingly stupid today. And because the parties who forbade this excercise from taking place already know about it, there’s really no use in keeping it a secret anymore. Alabama Power is putting up a row of huge towers to support some power line going to Mississippi. Or something like that. There’s a substation just to the north of us, so power poles go from all directions from it. Especially now. They bought some land from us near the back corner of our property to make way for this monstrosity. If we hadn’t have sold, they would have…
I’m going to Virginia. My sister is heading out for Colorado. Ben is leaving for Singapore. It will be a long time till our family is together again. Hmm.. mom is talking to dad on the phone about Ben’s flight to Singapore. He’s going to have to find his way through LAX, the Los Angeles airport. Reality check. Ken Myers called me today. I was supposed to call him this week, but we hadn’t decided exactly where I was going to stay on the way up to VA. He told me that I’ll be staying with a family in Powatan,…
For some reason I thought today was Thursday. I’m not really sure why. I mean, I’m not in school anymore, so the days do tend to blur together. But I woke up this morning convinced it was Thursday. Which brought up the question in my mind of what happened to Wednesday (or Tuesday) because I seemed to have missed a day. But Thursday it was, or so I thought, and nothing could be done about my memory. Actually, I woke up this morning at 6 am with a splitting headache. Well, to say I woke up would imply that I…