July 2003 Today Sara and I are using the computer lab at HCJB/the school. They have somewhat nice computers: they seem to be Intel PIII/866's with AOpen motherboards, with 256MB RAM. Which makes more sense than those at my university: those had P4's with 128MB RAM, and really having 256RAM is better than having a P4... at least for the sort of purposes that people use computer lab computers for. I still rather wish that I could use my nice AthlonXP home computer, with my nice games, though... We visited the market in Otavalo and I bought a nice grey cloak-a warm, practical Alpaca wool one that will (hopefully) actually keep me warm in NH winters. I also bought a wool poncho. But I think that I prefer the feel and appearance of the cloak. Ok, I've been trying to download a nice old DOS game called Tyrian. Besides that we have been eating Empanadas and occasionally playing music (Sara on Violin and me on Clarinet) and hopefully someone has a nice saxophone that I can borrow; I brought my nice selmer mouthpiece, the sort that comes with a professional sax, and my ligature and reeds. I heard that my clarinet music books should arrive in Ecuador, so I look forward to playing more atonal postmodern pieces (not really). I usually don't type messages like this but since Sara is updating her webpage and I haven't updated mine in a year or so, I decided to utilize my time in this manner. Maybe I'll begin a new web page.... I've written some new poems that I might should add as well... I also enjoy playing with the dog Ace (named after the Seventh Doctor's main companion), which often involves picking her up and throwing her around, or various other quite invigorating actions.