Over a month since the last update. A couple weeks ago I went on vacation in Ocean City, NJ, as my family has for years. Had a good time. Last week, I went to San Diego to see one of my friends from high school get married. All in all, a good 10 days or so. Another month until I get to go to San Diego again! I wish I had paid vacation days, but what can you do.
In the Chicago airport on the way back from NJ, Teresa bought me a book called The Da Vinci Code. It deals a lot with religious history, but you don't really have to know anything about religion to enjoy it. In fact, it's probably much more enjoyable if you don't know anything about history, much in the same way that computer geeks cringe when they read something "technical" that was written by a pseudo-geek. I read a little more than half of it on the plane, and finished it tonight. On the way out to NJ (actually Philadelphia), I read this book my mom gave me a while back. Started it as we left Phoenix, finished it about 15 minutes before landing in Philadelphia. It was pretty good as well. I still have several books that have been given to me over the last few years that I have yet to read. Two of the more prominant are Euclid's Window and The Wizard of Quarks. Hopefully I can get to them some day.
Hmm....what else. I played golf at Club West a few weeks ago, and didn't do that bad. I shot an 85 or something, but had about 10 penalty strokes. Almost had a hole-in-one! I ended up figuring out what I was doing wrong on about the 15th hole, and I was 2-under for those last two holes. I also somehow managed to get into a car accident a couple weeks ago, with no fault for either party. The car is in the process of getting repaired at the moment. At the very least, the whole thing should end up with new paint. Sorely needed, as most of the people that actually read this page will tell you. Right now I'm driving a 2003 Buick Regal LS as my rental car. It's pretty lame, but it does have some nice points here and there. Like headroom, for one. I have about 3" of headroom when seated fairly upright, while I have nearly zero in my car. I still really hate GM's 2-key system. This car doesn't have the ability to lock all doors when I lock the driver's side door from the outside, so that seems kinda weird. Lots of storage space inside. Hopefully I won't have it too much longer, and it takes a bit more gas than any of the other cars we have here.
Posted by Ben at July 9, 2003 12:07 AM