How many astronomers does it take to find mars? Tonight, I found out. All of them. 2 hours. It turned out that Flagstaff Hill was facing the wrong direction, and so we needed to wait for mars to rise. It did, and I joined someone from work in waiting in the long lines for the two nice telescopes that were there. During that time, a really cute, athletic, smart girl was flirting with me. She actually looked a bit like Debb, but not quite enough so that it would've been confusing. Of course I, being shy, was intimidated, and so I came across as cold. Oh well. Mars was kind of neat, but the telescopes wern't really powerful enough to get a good view. They were rather impressive though.

Ugh, I really should get to bed, but blogging is a habit.

Holy foo?!!! I just tried something really off the wall, and was surprised with results that are even more off-the-wall. Let's just say .. that shouldn't've worked, and the fact that it did .. and that it meant what I thought it meant, .. well.. that's just really fricking surprising. Hell, I'm still surprised that I even tried, much less... Anyhow, sorry, I'm not going to tell you any more about that.

Anyhow, yeah, it's time for *drumroll* the news on Pat's fairly nonexistant love life. Hehe.. it's not that bad, and I'm not bummed about it too much. There was someone who I really would've liked to have dated, but I realized that it wouldn't work out, and so that's that. There's someone I have a huge crush on that I see semiregularly, but I get the feeling she's not really looking for love right now in her life, or something. Although I think she's really smart, and pretty and that I could make her happy, I'm cool with what she wants. There're two really interesting people I've met online that might eventually become dates, or friends. It's always hardest to make that next step beyond electronics in meeting people, but they do both seem to be really cool people. One of them indicates they like massages. Huzzah! And.. then there's a little bit of unwanted attention from some people. I feel kinda bad for getting grumpy about it -- the thing that decides if its unwanted really is just if I find them attractive/interesting/etc, not the way they act. And, of course, this is all kind of odd for me.. maybe it's the haircut, and the mild tan, and the somewhat more in-shapeness, but I've never really had people do much in the way of hitting on me before. So, yeah, that's my love life. Exciting, huh?

Classes continue to rock. Pre-heliocentric physics/astronomy, currently a topic in my Philosophy of Science class, is something I might decide to read up on a bit.

Anyhow, no doubt I have things to talk about, but my brain doesn't work when I'm this sleepy. So, over to you, Cuba

Oh, yes, final note... I played with my laptop today and, courtesy of xmodmap, xev, and windowmaker, bound some of the wacky custom dell keys so they did appropriate things on Linux. The volume keys all work now... The CD controls don't yet, but I might do that tomorrow. For those of you interested, I'll probably post my .xmodmaprc.. Finally, I mapped the caps lock key into being another control key, and the menu key to switch to the next workspace. Yay. I might do that for all my desktops too, although none of them have windows keys. At work and at home, I just use my model M's. Speaking of which... I might swing by columbus some weekend, go to all the computer stores I love and get some supplies (maybe more used model M's), go to outland, and maybe stop by Indian Oven. It might be fun to do it in a night and not even stay anywhere. I could leave Pgh at 16:, be there by 19:, do Micro Center, then Indian Oven.. and by then it'd probably be 20:.. I could take a quick walk or jog around campus, or maybe visit with one of my friends there, and then at 23:30, I could get all dressed and go to Outland. Hmm. Except, I no longer have any clothes that are appropriate for Punk/Goth places. I guess I could probably find something that's marginally ok. Hopefully. Anyhow, at 03, I could leave as usual, and head straight home, and I'd be back in Pgh by 06, in time to snooze most of saturday away and then make my normal evening run to Coffee Tree. Sounds like a fun Fri/Sat thing to do sometime.

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