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I woke up at 2pm today, after a nice long 11 hours of sleep. Catching up on sleep good :-).

I had an email from Gordon, saying there was an ominous peice of mail for me, from SFU Library loans department. I decide to go down there to take a look at it...

They wanted to bill me $11 in fines, so I went down to see the library people. Get this at what happened: Originally, because I was working for TechBC during the changeover, I got an SFU library number. The only details that were listed for me were staff and my address was entered as TechBC. No phone number. Now, thanks to their lovely policy of changing loan periods from a semester down to 3 weeks, a book I had taken out, originally due 3-January-2002 was now overdue, them having wanted it back on November 18th. They tried to notify me of this fact, via postal mail, which I never recieved, because my address was listed only as TechBC. They also didn't have any email address in the system for me, thanks to the same bloopers. The only reason I got the mail about a large fine was because it got passed thru several people at TechBC SFU@Surrey to get to me. Anyway, after chatting to them, and they found this was the problem, they changed the details they had listed for me in the library system, and cancelled my $11 fine.

I also then took out a tripod for the weekend to do some photography of christmas lights and so forth.

Since Marissa hasn't updated, here is an update from me now.
Originally, my plan for today was to go down to TechBC SFU@Surrey this morning, to pick up a math handout needed for homework and give Gordon an update on the progress of RATS. This handout has a weird story, because the frigging mySFU system told us we needed 5 textbooks for math. However, when we got to this module for math, all of us find that there is a math text that was NOT listed, and so none of us have it. Additionally the SFU bookstore doesn't have it. So the instructor arranged for some photocopies of the chapter we needed to be made. These were supposed to be delievered to TechBC yesterday (Tuesday) by 9am originally, so we could get them. Then it was 4pm they were supposed to come, then 9am Wednesday, then 1pm Wednesday, and finally they arrived around 3pm. We had to pay $10.56 for each copy to boot. I got Mayo to pick up a copy for me, since he was waiting around all day for them. The rest of the plan called for me to meet Marissa at Production Way skytrain station around 2pm, have lunch with her, let her take a nap at my place while I worked, and then go up to SFU to see Sir Ian McKellen (who played Gandalf in LOTR).

Anyway, now more of what actually happened. I woke up around 11am. Went to my computer, Marissa emailed me because she saw me on my webcam, and we emailed for a big, getting something set up so we could communication in realtime. Ended up using UNIX talkd on the SFU Fraser server. Meh. It worked at least. She had to contact me because all the tickets to see McKellen were sold out :-(. We didn't figure out what to do then, but just said to meet up at the same time as planned. I did, and we went to Lougheed Mall for lunch. We ran into Patrick and Kirin in the food court, and sat with them, talking and eating. Kirin works at the EB there at the mall. Patrick was just hanging because he didn't want to be at home, and didn't have anything else to do. After Kirin went back to work, Patrick, Marissa and myself went to see Micheal Moore's Bowling for Columbine at Coquitlam SilverCity. It's an interesting movie, Moore seems to almost be the Canadian equivilent of South Africa's Leon Schuster. Patrick dropped us off back at Lougheed Mall SkyTrain station afterwards.

While waiting on the platform for a skytrain to take marissa home, Brittney and David got off the skytrain, having just come from TechBC, and were headed home. Brittney was ordering David into bed since he hadn't slept last night. I don't know why he didn't sleep, but I have a few ideas ;-). Anyway, Marissa got on the next skytrain headed to Columbia after that, and I got on the one towards Holdom after that. On my SkyTrain, I ran into Neil's friend Andrew's friend Douglas Dunn (I dunno if Neil knows Douglas, but I would assume so). He was with his girlfriend, who it turns out works at the coffee place in surrey place mall, and I've spoken to her before, not knowing that she was linked to the chain of friends that I have. The world is way way too small.

Software/Website ideas to do sometime:

• Friend mapping program using MySQL+GraphViz
• (Sky)Train Spotting website