I got my first personalized Nigerian 419 Scam scam today. You can read it if you want. Kind of scary when a letter from a foriegn criminal starts out "DEAR CARLSON." My co-worker says that a few years ago his wife actually received a personally addressed and postmarked letter in the mail, complete with account numbers and everything. I think I'd add another dead-bolt if that happened.

I refuse to admit that I'm going insane. I have no idea how I picked up a pair of gloves, then put them down two minutes later and then had to spend the next 30 minutes searching for them. My only defense is that it was seven o'clock in the morning and I hadn't had my Mountain Dew yet.

Spent a good 40 minutes on the Northern Central Railroad Trail this morning on my bicycle. Probably only did about four miles, but its a good start for having been so disorganized this morning. I told myself last night that I would be on the trail this morning whatever happened.

I may have to replace the second inner tube on my rear tire since it seems to be leaking a little air. Luckily I bought two before Playa del Fuego thinking I'd have to replace both anyway, so I can do it whenever I want. I'll top off the pressure in the tire tonight and see how it behaves tomorrow morning.

Looks like they caught the Beltway Sniper. The story I heard today was that he got cocky and pointed the police towards other shootings he had committed in Washington state. Since he was a little sloppier back then, making that connection gave them all the evidence they needed from those earlier cases.

We fixed the gas oven tonight. Kinda. I still haven't figured out whether my blowing on the pilot light is actually doing anything or whether it's just killing time until the thermocouple in the safety valve gets hot enough to get gas flow to the burner, but neither of us have the nerve to do nothing and just wait the 20 seconds for it to light on its own.

Here's something tasteless and not worksafe, but damned impressive.

October 23, 2002 - October 25, 2002

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