December 2000 Archives

I had a rough night. I dreamt something terrible, but I don't remember what. When I awoke finally in the morning, I turned on my radio to weather band and found out 3.2 inches (8.1 cm) of snow had fallen. Not exactly a lot. Compared to the foot (30 cm) or so New York City got. But it's enough to keep me busy shoveling it.

Yesterday our "Box" TV station was replaced with "MTV2." I must say I'm impressed. Hey, I just saw "Warning" by Green Day. That's pretty cool. Strange mix. Right after "Warning" they are playing a Beetles song. That's so much better than "The Box," which only played new stuff. All day. And then people would only buy the same two or three videos! The only problem is that my Time Warner Cable only left "The Box" on until 9 p.m., after which they'd put some pay-per-view channel on. I hope they don't do this with "MTV2". I will have to check that tonight.

My New Year's party consists of my family and our neighbors this year. It's not so bad. I like stuff like that. I mean I don't mind being in the "War Zone" in Vienna, Austria where everybody's shooting rockets and you're always prepared to get hit. That's where I celebrated the special night the past three years. It's nice to have a calmer celebration as well.

Well, I'll get going, shoveling now. I'll take a picture or two to show you how it looks here. Until then, have a wonderful day!

Ahhh, it's now 11:15 in the evening... I spent the last two hours making a video from my digital pictures. I hook the camera up to the VCR and record the pictures on a tape. In two hours I made around 22 minutes. I bought a really cheap tape at one of those Woolworth type stores. For $1 I got a tape with 40 minutes SP and two hours EP. I'm recording in SP, so I still have to fill another 18 minutes or so. Great. I am so incredibly tired right now, it's amazing. I'm like typing asleep.

It has kept snowing through now. It seems that most of this storm moved away to the northeast, but the end is twirling around above us. Great, well, it'll keep me busy tomorrow. It'll take me half-an-hour or so to shovel it away. I really look forward to it!

At this point I'll tell you another interesting story. If you view my pictures, you'll see I hang out in my basement. It's all nice and big and stuff, but it is hard to heat. It is generally around 60 degrees Fahrenheit (around 16 degrees Celsius) down here. So I had to install two electric heaters and a infrared heat lamp to get it around 71 (21).

Well, I'm going to head off to bed now, have a nice night!

Great, the snow started at 12:30 p.m. here, and it hasn't stopped. Now at 6:45 p.m. we have like two inches. The picture is from like 4:00. I spent the day doing homework. That was great. I also went to two different Radio Shacks to get the batteries I needed for my World Band Radio. I love those stores, they have all the little stuff those big stores don't.

I got one of those radios, let me tell you, they are tons of fun. I love listening in on pilots, police, ham radio dudes, etc. Plus you can hear almost any language using short-wave. They make you feel powerful.

I just remembered today how mad I am at Tripod, you know the web page host. Do not join them! They kicked me off because some idiot in a chat room reported me. So anyone who doesn't like you can just email them saying you violated a membership policy, and they believe them. Through that I lost tons of stuff, including a weblog I had kept for many, many, years. I had been a member since early 1997 there. Anyway, now I feel better.

So the year 2000 is ticking away, and soon we'll be in the real new millennium. Since the calendar was started with 1 AD (there was no year 0). Also I read that until around 500 AD they had a completely different system. Then the pope told someone to calculate it and he found out how many years after the founding of Rome Christ was born. Yeah right! That's going to be accurate! Anyway, and no one celebrated the end of the first millennium. 95% were illiterate back then! And they counted more in moons and seasons then in years. They didn't even know what a year was! So if you're afraid of some spirit, tomorrow night is when your supposed to be afraid, not last year.

I doubt, however, that anything will change. Yeah, the economy is doing bad the first time in ten years, but hey, we'll survive.

Today I posted about, oh, forty new pictures of Henry. And a few of me. Yeah, well, this thing really allows me to write a lot. I am about to eat now. The whole house smells like potatoes and mushrooms. Great! Well then, until me next writing urge... good bye!

Ah great, what a morning. The cleaning lady is coming. That causes madness in our late-sleeping family. This morning I got up first, which happens only a few times a year. After eating an English Muffin, I'm now down here in my basement.

The past weeks I've been doing a lot with my "Web Empire." I bought a digital camera, and you can now see almost 200 pictures on my pictures site. 100 pictures of these are of my dog. I also remodeled my Syracuse Home! and the starting page. Last but not least I created this weblog.

One thing I really regret is paying Asia Keys to give me better search results. The only problem is no one in Asia searches for Kai Brinker or Syracuse! Oh well. I also payed Ask Jeeves, and that seems to be working real well. While Asia Nails (as I often call it because I always forget the name, and it reminds me of some area store) doesn't. Ask Jeeves places me on the top right corner of the screen in a yellow box when you search for any of my keywords from "98 Degrees" to "Welsh Corgi".

Well, it seems the cleaning lady is here. Henry is barking and jumping on her. Today a big snowstorm is supposed to come, bringing four to eight inches of the wonderful white stuff with it. Everybody is panicing, although in the past twelve years I've lived here, there has only been one big snowstorm: the infamous Blizzard of '93. Yet everybody panics that this is going to be a huge thing, although the bulk of it is passing us to the east.

Well yeah, yesterday I intigrated this as the main frame of my site. I think it will work good. That will be all for now.

Hey, this is pretty neat! First off, Bianca Broussard encouraged me to start one of these web log things after visiting my site. I like this. It is like easy to update. It is like a diary/journal type of thing. So, today I started this. I'll see where it will go from here...