Woohoo! Today I learned how to use Windows without a mouse. Oh, I had a
mouse alright, but I reached the chapter of DOS for Dummies that told how to
do it. Now if I’m ever in a predicament in which I’m rendered mouseless, I
can maneuver successfully around the screen, providing I can remember how.

I also vastly improved the user friendliness of this IBM. I learned how to
change the prompt, so now it reads, “Yes, master?> ”

Heh, Eli just “Ewwww!”ed at Jefiner picking her nose. So Jef wiped it on
him. That brought quite a loud reaction. Nathan and Eli were picking on her
mercilessly a bit earlier. Jef is extremely ticklish around the neck. Ugh.
Now Steph is engaging in chemical warfare.

Eli is dying his hair, or bleaching it, rather. He’s been making periodic
trips to the bathroom to put peroxide on it. Then he comes and asks me,
“Jonah? Is it getting lighter?” He also hasn’t shaved for several days. He
said I’ll have to help him shave it into a goatee. He’s trying to convince
the people at school that this all American, straight kid is plunging off the
deep end. He’s also considering glueing a stud to his ear, even though I
told him if he got it pierced, it would grow back before long. But he enters
the Air Force Academy June 27th, and the least things they can give him
trouble about the better. He’s got a big swim event or something coming up.
Then he’ll shave not only his face but his legs as well.

I just got finished getting the camcorder ready in case Basket decides to
foal very soon. Steph and Jef are supposedly going to check on her every
hour. Horses like privacy when it comes to shooting out babies, so checking
probably is only going to delay the process. The Bremers have never actually
seen a birth, if I understand correctly, and their horses have been rather
fertile. I hope she lets loose before we leave.

Max visited my webpage. He had a problem with the “what I plan to do with my
major: Rule the world” part. “You see,” he said, “that’s impossible because
_I_ am going to rule the world.” “But,” I replied, “it doesn’t exclude
ruling in tandem. It could happen in shifts. One after the other.” “Oh, I
understand. I always assumed that world dictatorships were for life.”
“Well, yes, depending on how long one lives.” “In which case it would be
for life.” “Exactly.” I’m to meet him at the academy to view my page on
Netscape tomorrow at 2:30ish, providing Basket isn’t bringing a new foal into
the world, in which case I’ll call him, and he’ll try to get out of his
meeting.

I guessed the correct answer to the trivia question at Safeway this evening,
so Jefiner and I rented a movie free. It was a chick flick, void of violence
(had a lot of violins in it, however, as Duncan pointed out). Eli and Nathan
left in the middle of it.

I made beigies (light brownies) today with apple sauce instead of butter
according to Michele’s directions. People kept asking me what was in them.
I’d answer, “Manure.”

Eli’s hair is slightly lighter… but nothing drastic. Yet. He’s thinking
about soaking his head in a bowl of peroxide tomorrow.