friday night went out to tram's kitchen for dinner; my first time there. it was really tasty, and i saw things on other people's plates that i really want to go back and try. after food we met up with some people at the sharp edge to help jen celebrate getting old. saturday was nothing too exciting... went to the gym for a little while, but mostly just lounged around, watched tv and played gta:vc. i also spent a bit of time hunting around for my next bike.

yesterday morning the slf and i went over to courtney's for a little while to watch the steelers get humiliated. i wasn't there for long, because i went over to the co-op to help finish building the next section of wall. got all the sheets of plywood up, which means that it's pretty much done. we ran out of long wood screws, but we'll be getting more tonight, and tomorrow should be the big cleanup and setting party.

last night i broke my washing machine... i was washing my bathroom mats, and the water just wouldn't drain out after the wash cycle. i had noticed that the health of my washing machine had been steadily declining for a few weeks now... it was making strange noises on the wash cycle, and sometimes it wouldn't start the spin cycle unless you opened the lid and shut it again.. otherwise it would just sit there and make sad grinding noises... kinda like it wasn't quite slipping into gear. so i had to pull all the sopping mats out of the washer and run them (quickly!) over to the sink... whee! called my landlord to see about getting that fixed, and we'll see how long it takes. he's usually pretty good about that sort of thing.

those fuckers at verisign seem to have completely lost my authorization fax from about a week ago, so i re-sent it this morning. i want them to hurry up and get me my domain access back, so i can switch to my new host, and people can stop seeing the "server error" message where my geek quote should be.

a few weeks ago, both brian and myself were out of the office one morning. our boss came in, took a look around our department and said "oh, there's no programmers here today.", which was especially funny since the other developer was sitting right there, probably with a "what am i, chopped liver?" look on his face. we've been breaking his agates about that ever since, and to make him feel more like a "real" programmer, my mgr. and i each kicked in $1 to get him this lovely pin. we were going to try for a "p" letterman jacket or sweater or something, but we want him to do just a weeeee bit more coding first; you know, to prove he's actually a programmer and all.