Journal Entry: June 12, 2001
Oh, where do I begin with the news?
First, the regular season for Spring League Ultimate Frisbee is over. My team, Adverse Reaction, won our final game of the season. In fact, we only won the first game and the last game, and lost all the rest. But I caught the winning point of the last game! So that made me happy. Then we went to Wahoo’s for food and margs.
Beth and I have volunteered to help with the Boulder County Bat Survey again this year. The first bat watching trip was last night. We’re monitoring Stearns Lake again this year. We only saw one bat, but I heard at least two on the bat box. It was a little breezy, but that didn’t seem to deter the bugs.
I bought a new musical instrument last week. It’s called a Korg Karma. It’s a synthesizer keyboard with a number of special functions to help with improvised music. It’s the most expensive keyboard I’ve ever bought (even on sale) and I didn’t really budget to buy a new keyboard this year. So, now I’m selling off a bunch of older music stuff on eBay in order to raise the money to make up for this new toy. Unfortunately, I’ve been so busy the past week that I’ve only been able to play it for 3 or 4 hours.
Also, I upgraded our internet connection. Since about a year after we moved into this house, I’ve been using ISDN. Unfortunately, it’s expensive - $75 a month for service from Qwest plus $50 a month for my ISP. But, since our neighborhood doesn’t have DSL or cable internet, ISDN was my only option for a high speed connection. Well, now there are other alternatives. The one I chose is MHO DirectWave, which is a wireless broadband connection. It operates via a microwave dish on the roof and costs just $60 a month for service (for 1 megabit up and down) including ISP. So, I’ll be saving about $65 a month and getting around 8 times the connection speed. What an improvement!
The weather has gotten nice enough (finally) that I’ve resumed my glider lessons. I took one last weekend and one the weekend before, with one solo flight each time. Now I need to spend some time taking the practice exam in anticipation of getting my private pilot’s license.
My group of gaming friends is now onto a new game. We started playing GURPS Traveller a few weeks ago. I hadn’t played (or refereed) Traveller for about 12 years, so it’s been a relearning experience for me. The campaign I’ve put together is called The Dark Wing Missions and is a merchant campaign with some space opera style drama and intrigue (eventually) thrown in. I’m definitely helping keep Steve Jackson in business as I’ve already bought 8 or 9 GURPS Traveller products!
Man, that’s a lot of news! Better make the font smaller and move the old stuff off to the archive…