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Sunday, August 25 2002
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This afternoon Gretchen's sister-in-law Jen caught a plane back to Pittsburgh while Gretchen's brother (Jen's husband) Brian opted to stay in New York for a few more days.
Later on the New York Liberty defeated the Washington Mystics and advanced to WNBA finals against Los Angeles. I get a kick out of the fact that everyone with whom Gretchen and I come in contact, including Brian, are somehow able to scrape together sufficient excitement about women's basketball to humor us as we obsess over its every detail. It's great to find myself on the other side of the coin and actually causing boredom (as opposed to being bored) by organized sports. I attribute my interest entirely to Gretchen's evangelism, though it certainly helps that women's basketball is an unusually lively sport to watch. In comparison, baseball (about which I tried to muster excitement back when I was in San Diego and San Diego was in the World Series) is like watching teeth decay.
Later on I was showing Brian the sorts of fun that can be had when file sharing software is combined with high-bandwidth internet (he only has dialup in Pittsburgh). I burned him a CD of goodies (for trial purposes only, naturally) and then he took my P2P software of choice (KaZaA Lite) for a test drive over my 802.11 connection (he has a wireless card for use in Pittsburgh's many wireless-enabled coffee shops). After Brian pined for the good old days of the Apple ][, when programming computers was part of the way most people used them, I showed him how to do some simple file system scripting in VBScript. Brian is a medical doctor and can't possibly take the time to concern himself with the complex inner-workings of his computational hardware, but nonetheless he has an irrepressible geek interest in the subject.
Later we tried to diagnose a weird problem with his computer but had only limited luck in tracking down its source. When 99% of the processing power is, on occasion, taken up by something as Task-Manager-undescriptive as "System," what can you possibly do to find out what the real problem is?
As part of my new exercise regime, the first such regime of my entire life, I did 100 situps throughout the day. My stomach muscles were noticeably sore by the time I went to bed tonight.
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