learn new things every day

May 11, 2004 by Eric Richardson

You learn all kinds of crazy things taking a computer apart. My machine had been up for 64 days, but tonight I shut it down in anticipation of its big move downtown. Tilting it forward, I learned some things:

  • My floppy drive was not screwed in or connected to any cables.

  • I had a hard drive sitting on a static bag on top of the cdrom drive.

At one point I'm sure I knew both of those things. Tonight, though, they were all new to me.

not in this town you won't...

May 11, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Kobe Bryant can never leave the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe Bryant can never find another Shaq. This is where Kobe is the man. Yeah, Shaq's the man too. LA's big enough for two teams, so the Lakers are big enough for two stars.

2-2. Next game's Thursday at 5.

Kathy and I headed downtown tonight, driving by Staples Center around 7:35 and seeing all the people with tickets finding their way inside. We didn't have tickets, so we headed for a sports bar. We parked at my apartment and then headed west on sixth. First we tried the Grand Ave. Sports Bar, in the Biltmore Hotel. It was packed. We couldn't find a single open seat.

So we took to the road again.

We ended up at the Bonaventure, taking seats at the Bonaventure Brewing Co. They normally close at 9, but they kept things open late for the people watching the game on their 6 or so tvs. After the crowd at Grand Ave, it was great. Plenty of open seats at the bar, $4 pints, and a really good stout brewed in-house.

Kathy's sandals were bothering her feet, so we took a cab back to the apartment. That pretty much evened out the $5 or so we saved parking at my place, but you can't beat the flexibility of just walking around downtown to find a place.

counting down

May 11, 2004 by Eric Richardson

I've been reading pretty much non-stop over the last few days to try and catch up for my final in Religions of Asia. I made it through most of the assigned reading for the semester, but I really don't know how much any of that is going to help me. We'll find out in 55 minutes, though.

The good side is that no matter what all of this will be behind me by 4pm, or probably sooner.

Then I get to focus exclusively on moving for a day. Beds need to be disassembled, a refrigerator needs to be emptied, and a whole lot of random things are going to need to find their way downtown.

On a positive note, I just got an email this morning saying that DSL should be in place in the new apartment tomorrow. That should mean no significant disruption in service as I move, which is very nice.

again the move

May 10, 2004 by Eric Richardson

All this moving business has to be done soon, since Saturday is the last day of our lease here at City Park. Today I finally got around to reserving a truck from U-Haul for Wednesday. From this apartment we'll be taking the fridge, a couple mattresses, bed frames, desk, etc, and then we get to make the fun drive out to Covina to pick up a pair of couches from Magilla's parents.

Where the fridge is there I will be also, so Wednesday also marks the day I'll really make the move into the new place.

I'm excited.

First, though, I need to learn all there is to know about religions of asia before 2pm tomorrow. I've also made it through India, next come China and Japan.

not just imagination

May 09, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Last night, while writing my concert recap, I thought I felt a bit of an earthquake. My trusty quake map didn't show anything, though, so I chalked it up to me imagining things.

Turns out it was indeed an earthquake, just up near Santa Barbara.

(noticed on doc's site)