September 7, 2002

This morning Dominica made me go shopping for yarn. She has really gotten into knitting recently. We had breakfast at State Street Dinner – garbage plates. Dominica has been spending most of the day knitting and napping. I am buiding a Celeron 333 Windows 98SE machine for a friend of ours, Tricia. Loopy has donated a computer and monitor to her and I am busy getting the machine together. There are so many spare computers in this house, Loopy and I are frantically clearing them out so that we have a bit more room around here. Loopy had five extra computers in his room two days ago. Bob bought the Pentium III 500 off of him and is using that in the basement now. Bob needed another machine because a tech who worked for the school vandalized his PPro200 machine at school. So Bob is going to take his Celeron 433 machine to school once he gets the new one up and running. I bought the Pentium III 600 off of Loopy to use as a server in Washington (so it is leaving the house.) Loopy also had an old Pentium 200 MMX that we couldn’t figure out what to do with so I am making that into a simple Waste Watcher Reporting station to be used in Anderson, SC. So that will be out of the house soon as well. The Celeron 333 I already mentioned. The last machine was a Celeron 500 Compaq iPaq unit that belows to the company and is being prepared to be returned to Washington to be installed somewhere. I had an IBM Intellistation PIII 600 that Loopy is putting up on eBay for me because I just haven’t been using it. I bought it thinking that I would need another machine but the reality is that now I don’t use the huge number of multiple machines like I used to (the highest I ever got was 40 computers!) and if I don’t use them right away, they get old quickly. So I am selling it. Brand new, even. I have a Pentium III 500 in the garage that I finally got around to canibalizing today. Hopefully it won’t be around for too much longer. I need its processor in DC. I also have a couple of older machines in the garage that I keep stumbling across and wondering what to do with. I think that I am going to either find someone who wants them or toss them. Two might be useful and I am pretty sure that one of them is useless. Eric and I are collecting older computers to ship to needy hospitals.

Nate is out today. He left yesterday to go to his sister Rachel’s wedding back home. Bob and Zach are around but we have barely heard a peep out of them all day. Michelle was in town today for a violin lesson and she stopped by for a little while.

September 6, 2002

I woke up at Josh’s this morning and headed on into the UofR to give a tour to Rochester General Hospital. The tour was at 9am and Eric and I felt that it went really well. We worked at the UofR until mid afternoon and then I headed back out to Ithaca.

I have been out of town and traveling so much this week that I really haven’t had any time to do any updates. So there are just a few quick notes as to where I was each day. Sorry about the lack of updates.

After working in the city today, I picked up my new black suit from Men’s Warehouse and went over to MCC to get my medical records faxed over to Empire State so that I can go back to school for the fall semester. I am hoping to at least take a class on Oracle Database Design. That will be a lot of fun. MCC is adding two huge new buildings since I was last there in 1998. When I started there in 1996, MCC had a total enrollment of 14,000. Last year they had 20,000 and they have 22,000 this year. They are expecting 2,000 more next year! MCC is getting huge. At this rate, they will be the largest school in New York State in about five years. They are adding dorms this year and everyone is sure that they are going to be a full blown State University Center in just a couple of years. They are just too big to be anything else. They are only two years away from passing UB (Buffalo) as the largest school in the SUNY system.