For the last two nights, I’ve slept in my sleeping bag on one of those fold-out cushion chairs that Dann had. It’s just like the mattress I had on the floor in Kansas City, only not as wide.
When I moved into my apartment in KC, I met another man dragging a ratty-looking mattress for a twin bed out to the dumpster.
“Hey, can I have that?”
“Are you sure? It has spiders living in it.”
“Oh, that’s fine.”
From time to time, I’d wake up with these strange red welts. I never did figure out where they came from.
* * *
Dann told me Wachovia would probably have the type of checking account I was looking for, but the bank closed at noon, and I got there just a little too late. Since I was already out, I decided to go on a search for Wal-Mart. I found it, too. (Wal-Marts are generally hard to miss.) I also found a huge Goodwill thrift store. No bookshelves, unfortunately, which is what I was looking for. (Boy, do I need bookshelves!) I’ll try back later; from the looks of things, they have a pretty high turnover rate.
I’m typing this up on my computer here in our computer room. Dann is a computer tech in Atlanta, so he has a room devoted to computers. Two servers (running Linux), his Windows game machine, Pan’s computer, and a laptop. To this I brought my own desktop (which Dann put together and gave to me a couple of years ago) and laptop. We spent several hours rearranging the room to make space for my stuff.
The room is decorated in “geek chic” style: a couple of posters of wizards, a couple of framed dragon lithographs (signed and numbered, a gift from me once upon a time), and two broadswords mounted point-down on the wall. These are just the swords attractive enough to display – he also has a cheap katana that, frankly, looks like an oversized letter opener, and some sort of rusty ceremonial sword. There’s also a two-foot-high suit of armor on the floor between the lamp and his shelves of programming manuals.
Dann’s playing Everquest. He just informed me that he also has two computers in the trunk of his car he hasn’t figured out what to do with yet, and would I like a Linux server? No, thank you, I’ll leave that up to you, Dann.
Dann gave me my Christmas present today: a copy of Starcraft and the Starcraft: Brood War expansion pack. I’m about six years late getting these games, and they’re massive classics. I borrowed a copy of Starcraft from a friend a few years back, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but then I had to return the disk and never finished the game. Once I get a larger hard drive (my 10 gig drive from four years ago is finally filled), I’ll install both of them and get down to business.
Favorite Starcraft quote: “Sarge? I love you.”
When I moved into my apartment in KC, I met another man dragging a ratty-looking mattress for a twin bed out to the dumpster.
“Hey, can I have that?”
“Are you sure? It has spiders living in it.”
“Oh, that’s fine.”
From time to time, I’d wake up with these strange red welts. I never did figure out where they came from.
* * *
Dann told me Wachovia would probably have the type of checking account I was looking for, but the bank closed at noon, and I got there just a little too late. Since I was already out, I decided to go on a search for Wal-Mart. I found it, too. (Wal-Marts are generally hard to miss.) I also found a huge Goodwill thrift store. No bookshelves, unfortunately, which is what I was looking for. (Boy, do I need bookshelves!) I’ll try back later; from the looks of things, they have a pretty high turnover rate.
I’m typing this up on my computer here in our computer room. Dann is a computer tech in Atlanta, so he has a room devoted to computers. Two servers (running Linux), his Windows game machine, Pan’s computer, and a laptop. To this I brought my own desktop (which Dann put together and gave to me a couple of years ago) and laptop. We spent several hours rearranging the room to make space for my stuff.
The room is decorated in “geek chic” style: a couple of posters of wizards, a couple of framed dragon lithographs (signed and numbered, a gift from me once upon a time), and two broadswords mounted point-down on the wall. These are just the swords attractive enough to display – he also has a cheap katana that, frankly, looks like an oversized letter opener, and some sort of rusty ceremonial sword. There’s also a two-foot-high suit of armor on the floor between the lamp and his shelves of programming manuals.
Dann’s playing Everquest. He just informed me that he also has two computers in the trunk of his car he hasn’t figured out what to do with yet, and would I like a Linux server? No, thank you, I’ll leave that up to you, Dann.
Dann gave me my Christmas present today: a copy of Starcraft and the Starcraft: Brood War expansion pack. I’m about six years late getting these games, and they’re massive classics. I borrowed a copy of Starcraft from a friend a few years back, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but then I had to return the disk and never finished the game. Once I get a larger hard drive (my 10 gig drive from four years ago is finally filled), I’ll install both of them and get down to business.
Favorite Starcraft quote: “Sarge? I love you.”
posted by Mark at 1/03/2004 11:24:00 PM
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