Another night that I can't talk to my favorite person until bedtime. Looks like I can't really look forward to this changing until after my visit on the weekend of June 21st.

Going up to New Jersey this weekend to see Chuck Freund get married and spend some time with my parents. Father's Day is coming up soon, and this will be the only time I get up there this weekend between the Alternative Energy Fair and Freak Day at Kings Dominion.

Aced the Statistics quiz today. How do I know? Because it was so easy. I rushed from work to UMBC tonight to make sure I didn't miss it at the start of class at 18:00. Finally around 19:30 she passes out the quiz, which was a single page covering elements, variables and something that reminded me of a magic square with sum of rows and colums.

I was disappointed. The big guy that taught Stat 351 in Summer Session 2001 would have included everything from the types of variables all the way to having us draw our own scatter plot, histogram and box and whiskers diagram out of a list of 75 numbers in the first quiz.

Hopefully the first test will be a little more comprehensive. And when it is, I'll be ready.

I think after three tries that UMBC is finally unbanned from vees.net. As Steve said last night, "You know why Rob has a web page? So he can ban people from it!"

Damn straight.

Went to check for the Mozilla release party in the UMBC Ballroom after class and nobody was there. I tried e-mailing Moby Disk and the organizer of the party and only got a shrug in response so far. The little caption on the page says the party will be the moment that Release 1 is tossed out to the wolves.

Suz is working again which means she's online most of the day and I can actually call her from time to time and cheer both of us up. Here I thought I was going to go another month with 400 minutes being used by three calls to my real estate agent and two from my bank about a bunch of lost checks. It's about time they went towards conversations with my favorite gal again.

I'm a big dork now and I'm keeping track of my average trip times and total mileage to and from work, UMBC, and home. So far my average door-to-door speed to most places is a respectable 45 miles per hour, and only that low because of four lights in Baltimore and Hunt Valley that I haven't figured out a good way to navigate around yet.

Ah, it's actually 76 degrees in here. The lightning is flashing out the window and the relative humidity is pinned at 100%, but I'm not sweating out of pores I forgot I had over the winter tonight. If it wasn't for this headache and a certain someone being 900 miles away, I'd feel wonderful right now.

I'm really hoping my body doesn't betray me in the morning and make me late for work again. I'm trying to pull a good 8 to 5 schedule and get a bunch of outstanding projects out of the way. Learned some great stuff about generating PDF files from Windows PostScript output under Linux with ps2pdf. Now to put it to good use on Terry's latest project for me.

Ten seconds to bedtime and I'm all finished.

G'night, folks. Sleep well!

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