Mmmm... sushi is good...

Well, anyhow, living in Maine is great. People ask me why I go there so often, however, I notice that the only people who ask are those who haven't been here, or didn't appreciate it when they were here. Anyhow, it's great. Eating great food because all of the 3 mothers currently staying here are all quite good at cooking, enjoying a great sunset, and living in the company of friends and family where I can do just about whatever I want. Bike around, go swimming in the ocean... I think it's really great up here. In spite of the mosquitos (which can be dealth w/ through use of screens), it's all very pleseant.

So, I'm waiting between sushi and whatever we have for our main course (we don't usually have seperate courses and such), I think it's chicken frickasee (however you spell that, I don't know) and then for dessert, we're going to have strawberry shortcake, of which the biscuts are homemade, the strawberries are local, it's all just very good. Well, my sister is harassing me because I've been on the computer too long writing this entry to the blog, so, I'm going to be leaving now, or, perhaps I'll wait to spite her.... who knows. I guess you, the reader, won't, but it's quite irrellevant (that can't be spelled right) because I've got very little left to say. So, for now, goodbye.

I don't have much time... but.. here's the start of something so I don't forget it later. First of all, I am a very lucky person, and the reason I don't have much time is because I have a mother who not only knows how, but likes to make sushi. Anyhow, I've been thinking, who goes over to a friends house, only to have the friend be cleaning up while the guest is there? I've done this, but only out of necessity, in the sense that if my room wasn't clean by the time my parents got home, I would have been immediately grounded, and the guest kicked out of the house.

Moving on, I also wonder about relationships in high school. I merely wonder, what does one get out of it, that they wouldn't get out of a mere friendship, as opposed to designating one person their "girl/boy friend?" I'm sure this is merely a question out of blatant ignorance, having not bothered with such things as of yet. Perhaps there's more as one gets older, but as far as I can tell, I can't think of anything that sets being involved in a "relationship" w/ somebody at 10th grade, or rather, the transitory period from 10th to 11th, out from having a simple friendship. So, why all the bother.

I guess I had more time than I thought, and I don't think there's anything I really want to add to this. I'm still somewhat appalled at the extremely low feedback I receive regarding this site. I begin to get the impression that people don't actually read it. They just hit the page, add to the hit counter, and leave. Maybe the world is just hideously lazy. I know I leave feedback when I've got something to say.

Anybody care to explain to me Mercerism? As in Mercerism described in the book _Blade Runner_ by Phillip K. Dick (I think). It seems awfully strange. I have no idea what it is. Well, not no idea, but very little.

Bah, enough babble. Time for sushi! ha-HA! world. I get sushi for dinner.

Wow. I think I've been reflecting too much. In looking at myself, I see a lot of things I don't like. A lot of qualities and aspects of myself which I don't like, and furthermore, I doubt other people like, although in most cases, it's mostly things that I don't like, and only I as myself wouldn't like. Oh dear, it seems somebody is planning some sort of activity, and I'm part of it, so I've got to go.

I've just had a stunning realization. I don't know what I care about. Well... I do, but not on a grand scale, not really beyond mostly self-centered things. I can tell you a bunch of things I care about that relate directly and usually only to me, such as, for example, my health. It's kind of an alarming realization. I'm not saying I should have something necessarily that's entirely altruistic, but nonetheless, it's an interesting realization about self. Oh dear, well, it's time for me to get off the computer and reflect on my newfound insight.

What is going on?! I woke up last night at around 4:00 AM... and had a bowl of cereal! I must be going nuts!

Oh, just as a note, I did get around to seeing _Chicken Run_ and it was very funny, in spite of the fact that it was claymation and rated G. I would definetly reccomend it just for laughs.

I've been thinking. Although I don't understand the revenue model for Schoolbrain or whatever... thinking about has led me to a different and larger question.

Ok, so we have arbitraryschoolnamehere high school and they've got a decent computer lab and all... but it's rapidly approaching the point where it's too heavily outdated to be useful. Along comes arbitrarycompany with some crazy idea... they're going to give the school a whole bundle of computers and software and it's all going to be nicely configured and easy to use with next to no maintenance and all sorts of nifty features like remote-access and what not... but... it's not exactly cheap. What's more is that the company isn't about to go give away their product without some sort of return because they need to sustain themselves. So, because the school doesn't really want to buy all this... the company says that how about they just put a banner-ad somewhere on the screen. Allow other larger corporations to purchase advertising space at the discretion of the school, the company gets money, the school gets good equipment, and the large corporation gets a great advertising oppurtunity.

Ok, so we have this situation where all of a sudden we get an angry mob of community members saying they don't want advertising in their school. So, my question to everybody is what do you think about advertising in schools? I personally don't see too much of a problem. As long as we don't go off and sell ad-time to companies who are going to advertise stuff like tobacco and other harmful products, where's the issue? I want your opinion, and furthermore, you should
EMAIL ME
with those opinions. Well... I've got chores to do so... adios for now.

Doo dee doo dee doo... well now I think I should be getting officially paid as opposed to doing just doing work at Traxit. It won't be a whole lot, since often time I'm not actually doing anything, but at least for what I am I'll be getting paid.

Well, I do have a lot of things to do today. I've got to clean my room... get work done on this database, I was hoping to take a bike ride sometime today, I probably should revise this article on Blogger for TechSphere (of InASphere.com) and lastly, I need to work on getting a comprehensive packing list together for LPC, or as my friends like to call it, "Commie Camp."

Well... I got a haircut, and now it seems that everybody is out to lunch, and I'm stuck here, without anything to do. I suppose I could play some TF... and it is a DSL connection... so I will be technically termed a "LPB..." Yup. I think I'll do just that.

Here I am, waiting for the configuration manager to be configured correctly such that I can finish installing the demo on this laptop... but oh, the joy of blogger. I can update anytime, anywhere with access to the web. Oh dear, back to work I go. It seem the configuration is done.

Well, although I've never been a fan of it before, "chatting" with random people online can be quite an interesting thing to do. Ever since I got Odigo and started putting stuff into my Profile, I've been getting these random people talking to me, and it's quite fun. Why? I have no idea. But it is. Yeah. I finished a first draft of a bad article on Blogger. Well, maybe it's not so bad, but I don't like it much.

Uggh... I have so much to do. Excel simply isn't good enough for this database project I took on. Ack. Now I have to learn a lot of Access. Bah. I don't know enough HTML. I don't know enough of anything. I can't say I'm an expert at anything really. Well, I can't think of anything off the top of my head, and it's kind of depressing. Hmm... what else do I have to do. Oh, that's right, develop a journalisitic talent and use it to produce an article for TechSphere (section of InAsphere.com which is a division of Traxit Technology Inc.) And what else... Pack for LPC. Get ahold of books, etc. I'm doomed. Absolutely doomed and furthermore, swamped w/ things I need to do.

I think I have too much to hide. Too many thoughts and ideas of which I can't tell anybody, because they are really evil. You know what else is true? There is very little good that can come of keeping a personal journal, or diary. The most that could come of it is that I would have the means for remembering stuff from now, when I'm old, however, what's more likely is that I'll write something that I don't think I should/could tell anybody, and it will be read in spite of my best efforts to prevent that. Thus, I come to the conclusion that I will not even make an attempt to log my activities at LPC, and if I do, it will be sugar coated and foolish for the sole purpose of making myself think I'm keeping a journal for purposes related to my already failing memory.

Odigo appears to be crapping out on it's AIM compatibility again. It's really too bad that AOL keeps on doing stuff to make interoperability impossible. Hmm... I wonder, although I've never used it, I wonder if Odigo will ever become compatible in some form w/ MSN Instant Messenging software. Well... I've got to install Access now, as well as write an article on blogger, so... I'm off for now.

Well, here I am at Schoolbrain/Traxit/InASphere doing nothing at all. I will be configuring a demo in a while, but I have to wait for a disk image to be taken of the computer before I can do anything. I guess it's time to let the thoughts flow from my head to the keyboard...

I think I might be seeing _Chicken Run_ tomorrow. We'll see. Another thing is that I may see a friend of mine later today, because he's working in Lowell as an underling to an important government official and he might pass by here going home. Arrrghh... I need to think of some good subject matter for an Article about blogger I need to write. Oh dear, I've got to get back to work.

Oh, I've given up on my earlier goal of a handstand etc. Yeesh. What a silly idea that was.

Ahhh... back in Harvard. Ready for a week of pseudo-work, and then, off to a marxist dream... well... not really. But that's what it's called by my friends. Ugh, I've just woke up, and the only reason I'm blogging is because I'm copying my email from my mother's computer which we brought to Maine. I need to make a packing list of everything I want to bring to camp. I think I may have to buy some things as well.. Well... I should go have breakfast and take a shower, so... adios.