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2000.11.03 12.32

10/27, Friday Night: Went to #'s and to a nearby party once I realized the night was a suck. Entrance fee to party was $10. Went to gate. Off duty cop stood in way. Told cop, "Yup, just coming back from my car." Made weak attempt at smile. Cop waves me in. I find friends from work there and catch up on what I've missed. Lame factor at this point was reaching critical levels. Made abrupt departure.

10/28, Saturday: Missed basketball game at 3 PM. Practicing my new 'I Don't Care' attitude. I am doing okay with it, but I seem to lack motivation to keep it up. Prepared myself for Halloween 2000 party held by friend/client. Had to paint my 90 cent guns. Did so around 4 P.M. Pointed oscillating fan at guns. Guns dried fast. Made touch-up painting at 6 P.M. More fanning. Guns looked good. Took lotsa photos. Could not complain as beer and jello shots were free and plentiful. Went as Neo. Look like a puffy version of him. Considering taking up jogging and malnutrition as a hobby to counteract puffiness. Went to yet another party after this one. Other friends were there although I was slipping away mentally. Recovered. Made abrupt departure.

10/29, Sunday: Slept in. Watched really bad shows on 'E' and 'VH-1.' I can sit around all day watching how celebrities have totally jacked up lives. Very entertaining. Considering becoming celebrity just so I can watch a show about my jacked up life. Heard about some stupid L.A.P.D. cop that shot a guy in costume at a halloween party who had a gun. Guy was dressed up as the devil. Hopefully that deal where you wear the same thing you died in isn't true (for him). Cops at party last night only glanced at my fake-o guns briefly. Didn't even get padded down upon entry. Ah, Houston.

10/30, Monday: Effects from daylight saving's time yesterday got me into work at 7:40 A.M. Thought I'd have my pick of parking places. Wrong. Place was packed. Wondering if vampires work a night shift somewhere on the 13th floor. Tried to get into swing of programming some Java. Wrong. Found out Java has subset called Swing. Tried to get into the swing of Swing. Wrong. Got letter in mail from lawyer giving me court date for the 'Failure To Signal' famous ticket. Grunted and spit. Remembered that I need to take defense driving this month. Grunted and spit a second time.

10/31, Tuesday. Made stupid looking hat for office Halloween party. Didn't win anything. Strangely enough, entire floor of folks below us almost all made hats. My floor barely did. My hat was too heavy as it had a laptop glued to it. Took apart hat after my defeat and planned evening. Attempted to get fellow freaks to attend the #'s Vampire Ball with me, but no takers. That night I drove the Time Machine around and impressed little kids left and right. Decided story about how car was made by model maker in Florida wasn't interesting enough. Told people car was actual car from the movie and that I was getting it ready for the next movie. Wondering what other kind of disinformation I could spread. Pointed a fender out to one kid and said, "This part of the car actually touched Michael J. Fox's butt." Kids touched fender and went, "Wow!" Eeew. Decided not to go to Vampire Ball as it would save me some money. Going next year, however.

11/01, Wednesday: Found out effect of daylight savings time could not last. Got in at normal time. Cranked through work. Went home. Watched Star Trek with my dad. Pondered having teeth whitened. Crashed.

11/02, Thursday: Managed to hook myself into a big night time dinner meeting with other offices in my region. Met interesting people. Upon return to work, made abrupt departure for home. Got another freaking speeding ticket on way home. 70 in a 60. This time I was definitely not speeding. Didn't have 'my daughter just smashed her head' story ready in time. Tried to talk cop out of ticket or to get warning ticket. Cop says only county cops have warning tickets. Bastard. Drove home driving minimum speed of 45 MPH to avoid further bulls**t. Furrowed eyebrows several times in anger. Brushed and flossed. Went to sleep.

11/03, Friday: Realized I haven't updated in forever. Got to work moderately late. Need to make up hours on weekend. Remembered ticket last night and furrowed eyebrows again. Got my voter's registration card in mail. Yay. Going to vote for Bush. Getting quizzed by people who want to know why I'm voting for him. Giving them Bush's URL. I hate explaining. Last night I dreamt a friend of mine had somehow acquired a million dollar microwave oven. Top secret. Very confidential. I took apart my stereo speakers and hid oven inside them. FBI dudes were walking outside my street with radiation detection equipment trying to find it. When coast was clear, I took out million dollar microwave hidden in my speaker and used it to heat up a cup of cafe mocha. Coffee began to boil after 1 second. Cool. Million dollar microwaves kick ass.