10/6

little delayed, but better late then never. Vegas was a riot, met some more cool people, and bumped into quite a few others i know. finally met eric’s friend josh, who has a little write-up on shmoo’s sniper yagi here. Apparently, josh has a hot blonde supermodel wife, but as i’ve not met her, or even seen pictures of her, i don’t yet believe she exists. Besides that, it was a lot of hanging out and not getting enough sleep.

On the way out, I some how managed not to vomit all over my plane-mates, although i came close a couple times. d*mn you van for getting me so sloshed. (i don’t regret it one bit).

Oddly enough, that weekend was also the weekend of some sorority conference in Vegas, so the few times there were trips to eat at some restaurant or anything, there were giggly communications majors everywhere! It was scary. At one point in one dinner, our waiter, who we’d been little by little annoying with various harassments, came over. I felt a need to emulate, so just like the mass of girls at a nearby table, when the waiter asked if we needed anything, i simply responded by waving my hands excitedly in front of me and screaming “WHEE!!! YAY!!! YAY!!!” in a high pitched voice. the waiter quickly said, “I guess that’s a no.” and ran away.

Finally got IPSec working on my home wireless network here. It had been mostly working previously, but on some sites like slashdot or the apple trailer site, things just sat there and did nothing. Turns out it was an MTU size issue, whereby packets when padded with AH+ESP needed fragmenting, then all h*ll broke loose. Go figure. Coincidently, they got IPSec going at Stern yesterday too. small, nerdy world.

Speaking of work, work is pretty much normal. Still finishing up my training. Been running into some annoying problems, but it’s been a good challenge learning all this new stuff, so it’s good. I still haven’t gotten any money from them yet as a full timer though, so that’s stressing me a bit.

Stacey is home sunday! I won’t get to see her til next wednesday though! AAAHHH!!! I can’t wait for her to be back. In prepartion, i need to clean my room, shave, and try to locate the part of me that knows how not to be a slob and an oaf that got lost in my room a while back. I’m very happy to say that when she returns, the plant she left with me will still be alive and well. It seems that i haven’t fully inherited my dad’s talent for killing plants (i did manage to murder a plant vivienne left with me one summer though. i think i watered it a total of twice. She’d told me it didn’t like being over watered. her mistake.)