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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

Yesterday, I went to the Opera (Aïda) with Marissa. On the way, I stopped at a little store I found a couple of weeks ago, and purchased 400 National Geographic magazines. Yes, that is correct, four hundred of them. They weight a LOT and take up quite a bit of room, but I have a lot of them now. I paid $120 for the lot.

Now I just need to sort them and remove duplicates (which I will sell again).

Ok, so I haven't updated in a long time now. However, there will be more updates coming soon.

I ordered a Handspring Visor Edge last weekend, and it arrived during the week. It is a lot lighter to take to school than my old klunkly laptop. Plus I intend to use it to write up LiveJournal entries on the go.

Schoolwork has been really hectic lately, as next week is an exam week for me. More sleep would be nice, but I don't have time to get it in. The Visor will also help me get more work done on some of this.

I went out with Marissa yesterday, saw 'Signs' @ Capital 6 Theatres, and 'Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa' @ CN IMAX. kilimanjaro is a really awesome movie, great cinematography in it. Plus the fact that natural Africa is a really beautiful place. Has anybody here besides me seen the documentaries about the African Rift Valley by David Attenborough? It was in the series entitled 'The Living Planet' and was circa 1984.

I wanted to try the ribs place that replaced Urban Monk for dinner, but they were playing rap music at an excessive volume, so we went to a little pita place instead. Before heading home, we had ice-cream from Cows on Robson.

In other bits of news, I've bought an additional 40Gb hard drive for $70 to put into my server as another backup drive.

Off to do homework I go now. I have a posting due at 6pm.

Hmm, I need more music by this guy. It is incredibly relaxing and wonderful music. I have "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" soundtrack, which he also did, but I should find more, as it is really good music. Marissa (amethest) likes music by the composer Thomas Newman, and now I have found a good composer that I like as well. I'm gonna go past Metrotown tommorow and see what CD's they have by him. And maybe actually buy some (the horror!, I'm actually buying a CD!).

But the music is really is really nice.