Journal Entry: December 27, 2001
Christmas has come and gone! I got some nice gifts and for the most part had a quiet day at home. My parents visited from Thursday through Sunday, and Beth and I spent Christmas day just the two of us. I worked the day before and the day after, while most of my coworkers took those days off. For Christmas, I got several CDs, a couple DVDs, two GURPS Traveller books, some toys, and some money to buy more toys. Don’t know what I’ll spend the money on, yet.
We went to see the long awaited Fellowship of the Ring movie on opening day last Wednesday. And we liked it so much, we went to see it again on Christmas. It’s a great film and is now voted as the #1 movie of all time by readers of IMDB.com.
I’ve been making good progress mixing the next 404 Not Found CD. I made the first test CD and made lots of notes about how it sounds on various equipment. Now it’s back to the studio to remix some tracks and remaster others.
Here’s an idea I had a long time ago, that I’ve been meaning to write down here. This came to me while I was driving home from my parents house at Thanksgiving in my NGV. One of the most important features of this car is that it has incredibly low emissions, a point that’s accentuated when driving over the mountain passes on the highway along with all the diesel trucks and SUVs that pour out smelly black and blue clouds for miles and miles. I was thinking the gasoline companies should research fuel additives that give off various designer scents when burned. I imagined a special gasoline that smells like milk chocolate when it burns. That would sure make highway driving in traffic a lot more pleasant!
Perhaps part of what made me think of that was an article I read about a guy who has a car that runs on leftover fry oil from restaurants. He says that the car puts out fumes that smell like wherever the oil came from. So if he gets used oil from a chicken joint, his exhaust smells like KFC. Or other times, it smells like fresh french fries. Even if it’s not chocolate, that sounds nicer than the usual burning diesel smell.