Check out the recent page for the placement of the old news link.

Now putting it really low down, that should make it look a little better.

Attempting to restart the propagation of news postings through the recent andold news sections.

Just want to make sure the insertion of the older posts into the recent news section is done correctly, without overlap.

This perl system of database post management is kicking my ass.

I stayed up really late last night, for no particular reason, other than the fact that I'm 21. And I can. Magda rented a couple movies, actually pre-release rentals, Mr. Nice Guy with Jackie Chan, and The Man in the Iron Mask with Leonardo DiCaprio. Both were good, each in their own way. Plans for today include going home in preparation for Cooler, an ultimate tournament in Delafield, WI, this weekend.

Played in my first ever tournament with a club team, Godzilla. Played fairly well. Called in for defensive points, and even got a couple ho' blocks. Tried to stick hard with my man, but got taken deep a couple times. I was even playing for the last point in both games we won. Actually caught the winning goal against Swank. All in all, a good first tourney.

Home was nice as well. Got my Mom's Cooking and my own bed to sleep in. I brought more clothes back and that little table I helped to make for The Cruicible back in sophomore year. Less and less of my stuff is at home now.

Today I had lunch from Boston Market, specifically the Ham Carver Combo on white bread with a side of baked beans and Mr. Pibb as my drink. All for the low low price of $5.95. Just because Ridge Warren is lacking bread and lunch meats for a sack lunch.

The bill from Internic came last Saturday and I just wrote the check. So now I really own the Abando family corporation. As soon as I find more time I'll actually write a family homepage, and give my parents and sibling their own place on the web.

Ted and I plan to go grocery shopping at Jewel and desk shopping for Ted at Target. There's supposedly a sale going on at Target on furniture, so he's hoping to pick one up today. I'm just looking forward to getting some bread and cereal for the apartment.

Robert Ludlum's The Gemini Contenders swallowed up the morning and caused a rush into work late today. But now that it's finished, I can either get another one, or continue working on my many projects: installing Debian 2.0, writing web pages for family and hobbies, playing ultimate, playing Tekken 3, or working on the apartment. Maybe it's time to pay another visit to the Evanston Public Library.

I've committed to Godzilla until the middle of October, if not longer, for the club season. I signed on for a multi cent deal as a defensive specialist. In the works are shoe deals and my own line of clothing.

After dinner and a couple games of Tekken 3, Ted and I made our way to the Evanston Public Library for some new books. I picked up 3 new/old Robert Ludlum books, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Materese Circle, and The Scarlatti Inheritence. They're all due on Sept. 4, so I need to get cracking.

It's late, yet I keep working. I've got a theme for the graphics finallyand all that's left is the tweaking. Since it's going up on servers that do includes, i'm hopefully going to look into server randomization of advertisements.

Server parsed html is my newest toy. Compared to other web designers, it's an old toy. So I guess you can teach a new dog old tricks.

Friday finally appears, and plans for tonight include a showing of The Avengers with Uma Thurman and Sean Connery, at 10:10 PM CST at Old Orchard Sony Theaters. Looking forward to a good movie on good quality film, unlike The Big Leibowski and GI Joe: The Movie, free rentals from Blockbuster which did not play well in the VCR. Current favorite character in Tekken 3: Dr. Boschonovitch.

I'm this close to getting this page completely ready for its debut. But then something else just doesn't seem to agree with me anymore. I'm working with Prohosting, on setting up this page at eric.abando.com which would be really cool, but it just don't seem to be working. Also the interests page is done and I'm up to sophomore year in high school on the history page.

After a grueling early morning practice in Hyde Park, I made it back north for cold spinach lasagna for lunch and a movie, Fame. It's a really good movie. Lots of storylines that weren't explored, but definitely entertaining. The Avengers last night was interesting. And I'll leave it at that. Tonight is dinner with Ted, Kristen, and Karl, and then cocktails at the Four Seasons downtown. I guess I'm driving.

After Godzilla practice today, I went and visited my brother going to school at Rush Med. To get there after dropping Tun, an ex Vomit Monkey, off at the Hancock, I made my way south to 290 on lower Wacker Dr. That's an amazing ride. And fun. And to get home I went on 90-94 West north to Dempster instead of the usual Lake Shore to Sheriden.

Plans for tomorrow include a trip to the Res-hall staff in Scott to discuss my meal plan for the next year. Also on deck is a meeting to look at a possible bar for the apartment. And for the rest of this week, to work on the apartment, to finish the front room, at least prepped for painting. No lazy computer use, no playstation, no movies, just work, apartment, and frisbee. And need to purchase cleaning supplies to clean the bathroom.

Well, it's here, and appears to be finished. So yeah, I'm here for all the web to see, at mine own vanity domain. The plan is updates for my plans, when I'm doing stuff, more factual than imaginary. For all those that are interested, Peter, Paul, and Mary at Ravinia August 29th.

Ted and I are planning on going to Nevins tonight after work for a beer. He figures we go in for a couple weeks, get to know the bartender, then bring in the books and before long we got Vespers and Bronx Cocktails and maybe someday a Tom and Jerry. I'm looking for a Guinness before dinner myself. Maybe a Black Velvet. So that's 5:30 at Tommy's.

Imagine an NT server running critical network applications without a keyboard or a mouse, as everything for the company, and needing a shutdown and a restart. That's my plan for this weekend, aside from Godzilla practice. Come in to First Midwest Financial Group (it's not quite ready yet) and work on these NT machines. It needs to be better set up than just working.

After working on the walls so intently yesterday that I didn't notice gravity which caused my fall from the Nack Family Ladder, I have to go shopping today to purchase a new ladder from Ace Hardware to replace it. Other than a popped out rivet, there was no other damage to the ladder or myself. So that means I can continue patching the walls. Joy of joys.

Another Ludlum book down the drain. Next up, Materese Circle. In other news, the Nack family has a brand new aluminum ladder, all the pages here should be fixed and show up as rendered HTML, and no work was done on the apartment last night. None. So now it leaves thursday and friday night to work on the walls and cleaning the bathroom, which is now an option after the purchase of latex gloves.

Today and tomorrow are all that are left to get the front room at Ridge Warren all prepped for painting. Will it be done? I gave in last night and played a couple rounds of Tekken 3. I was going into withdrawel. I've also started The Materese Circle. Bad idea. But the tub and shower curtain are clean in the bathroom. I'll even look better after my haircut today at Jay's Barbershop in Evanston just off Davis. Also need to get some bleach or ammonia for disinfectant for cleaning the bathroom. Also Bruiser's coming in today and I've got to pay for his keys, or find them.

Finished another section, my Hairstyles. Warning, the page is >50k. Got some Pinesol for disinfectant, got a bowl brush, a haircut, and some pinapple juice and ginger beer for coctails. So looks like tonight is Moscow Mule night. And it's hot, and I'm going to see if Bruiser's home to throw around some.

Well, the weekend's here and that means work, lots of it. Here's hoping that things go smoothly and I can do this stuff as quick as possible. Plans for today include getting rugs and a table for the kitchen, and some more cereal. We should probably go grocery shopping soon. More work was done on the walls last night in the front room, hopefully by monday we'll be ready to paint. Hopefully.

Alright, so the server at work can wait another week until something gets done about it. I was busy having fun. So last night Ted and I spent plenty of time working on the walls after going shopping at Builder's Square and Target for rugs, kitchen mats to be specific. This morning and afternoon were spent playing frisbee, a nice 4 1/2 hour practice on the south side. And then after that, when I should have gone into work, I had a beer, a couple beers, a gimlet, played some tekken, and went to The Olive with Magda, Karl, Ted, and Sara Lee, a friend of Magda. It was to swing dance, which was fun. I had myself a Gibson there, which was really good. So all in all, a good day, if not very productive. Tomorrow brings mass, laundry, and more ultimate, and maybe some grocery shopping at night.

Well, today's the day something's going to be done about the server. Has to be done. Wonder what that means about my laundry. I'm actually down to my last pair of underwear. So it looks like it's going to be a long night. A very long day.

For those who can't get enough, there's a directory of online journals at diarist.net. As their slogan is, for the voyeur in all of us. And we all are. Well the server restart didn't go that badly, and now I'm just tweaking what's left. Not nearly as bad as I thought it would go. I'm looking forward to getting those cheap imitation chocolate doughnettes for breakfast, or at least a snack.

After screwing up my sleep schedule by an 11 hour workday starting at 9 PM Monday night, I'm somewhat back to normal, although it feels like Friday. The Materese Circle was finished a couple days ago and I'm about a ¼ way through The Scarlatti Inheritence. This is the 5th Ludlum book, and maybe it's time I cut back. Maybe later today Ted and I will finally go grocery shopping. And maybe after that work some more on the wallsin the front room.

Testing 1, 2, 3. Testing 1, 2, 3.Testing 1, 2, 3. Testing 1, 2, 3.

After dinner at That Little Mexican Restaurant, Ted and I went grocery shopping at that lovely new Jewel out on Green Bay. It's got a pretty good produce section and an alright meat section. Ted's one problem? No prepackaged curry.

I've got to bring the car to the dealer tomorrow, bright and early at 8 AM. I'm thinking a lot needs to be done, so I'll probably be there for hours. I'm not sure what else is planned for tomorrow night.

Well, I brought the car to the dealer for it's 30k mile checkup, and after waiting patiently for three hours, I proceed to get into an accident less than a mile from the dealer. No one was injured, and my car was the only thing damaged. But I don't know when I'll get the car back. Ironic, isn't it.I'm guessing this means long trips on public transportationor no more Godzilla practices for a while. But mobility is definitely limited.

Well, the kitchen got cleaned, swept and floor wiped, and the front room had more moldings scraped by Ted and I. Overall, a pretty productive evening. Without a car, Godzilla practice is so much furthur away. Need to return the Ludlum books and get some more for all the Metra trips to the south side and maybe 'el' rides to UIC.

Alright, so I didn't do anything productive today.Well, maybe. Ted and I measured out cabling for the wiring of Ridge Warren. Around 200 ft. Oh, I returned those Ludlum books to the library and got three more new ones, all in preparation for long hours on public transportation. Played a lot of Tekken today, got King's Rolling Death Cradle a couple times. In celebration of Nack moving in the three of us went to Nevin's for dinner. Good food there. Going to try and make it to practice tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Actually made it out to Godzillapractice today, even close to being on time. I realizethat public transportation is very foreign to me, and now is a good time to change that. This now gives me time to read more Ludlum books, and I just started The Ostermann Weekend today.Tomorrow is more work, and more public transportation.CTA, I love thee.

Looks like Sherman Restaurant for dinner tonight, mostly to annoy Magda, a current waitress there.This also means I won't have to cook tonight.