~ one of the wires has been pulled out of my headphones, so only the right speaker works. the trial continues…

~ someone must have tried to install redhat [w] on the mazda, because it gave me a signal 11 of its own while i tried to enter the 110 south from third. though it is a little tougher to get a ride at 2am, i must say that i much prefer breaking down on the freeway in the middle of the night to stalling out at 9am in beverly hills. i was able to meet quite a few people – some nice, some belligerent, some uniformed – and one couldn’t ask for a more spectacular view of los angeles at night than you get while stranded on the 110 & the bonaventure. and it only costs $70! (engine repairs extra!)

~ swapped out the ram, every combination of the cards brought the same ‘signal 11’ error. managed to pillage the desk of an absent student, providing a second monitor for the cause. now that we don’t have to share a monitor with ‘planet’, the failures should be coming much more rapidly.

~ fall has arrived in los angeles. it’s freezing outside; the temperature is somewhere in the 70’s. now, the neighbors seem to have made a regular procedure out of breaking into the windows of their house. every time they arrive home, they sneak down the alley and rip the bars off the wall and crawl into the window. if i was on speaking terms with them, i would tell them about the keys and doors that i use.

~ in less than 4 hours, the neighbors fail to let me down: they forego the usual bickering and fighting and name calling in which they usually engage to pass the time. instead, they proceed to lock themselves out of their house then promptly hammer off their own ‘burglar bars’ and tear out their own screen and window. perhaps an anonymous caller will notify the cops of a possible break in…

~ after an internet-free-access weekend in forsyth county, georgia, the angry red planet vacation has come to a halt with the uneventful return to los angeles…

~ the angry red planet weekend work retreat was held in the lovely sequoia and king’s canyon national parks [w], in search of the great sequoia tree. while taking a break at lodgepole, we noticed that the u.s. flag was being flown at half-mast, indicating that a national figure or hero had died. naturally, we assumed that it was president gerald ford, hoped that it was president’s son george w. bush [w], but never imagined that it was old ben….

~ we were just singing ‘too hot’, and the question of ‘what ever happened to coolio?’ arose. has coolio gone the way of axl rose?

~ it’s no secret to those close to us that napster [w] is an important part of everyday at the angry red offices. the r.i.a.a. can rest assured that today’s news will simply have us pack the mazda with zip disks and drive down to our local t1 and fill them up from now until friday. at this point, we will switch to gnutella [w].

~ as we were fixing the broken link to the dingbat scene report, we noticed in the reflection on our monitor that someone was standing near our car. We walked to the door just in time to see another parking ticket shoved under the windshield wiper.