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03/25/03 The job search is full on. I've enjoyed my time out here so far. I plan on being home for about week around May 31st. It will all depend on the job situation.
03/26/03 It looks like I'm going be working at PetsMart until I can get a lead in the computer industry. Seems like a fun place to be. And they have ferret stuff there. Ferrets are illegal here in Cali, which sucks. Maybe I'll save some money, buy some ferrets, grab my towel (see below) and go wander around Australia for a while. . .yeah, sounds nice.
03/30/03 Happy Birthdays to Larry and in thirty minutes to Destiny!! I learned to play the two main rythyms for Capoeira on the Berimbau today. Consequentially, there is now a nice chunk of my thumb sans a couple layers of skin. And from driving 45 minutes to find a parking spot, my left arm is sunburnt, while my right one is pale as ever. My Capoeira class had a roda at Oceanside Pier yesterday, and that was a blast. Soon I'm gonna change this to www.geocities.com/phoenix471/family.html so just you guys can see this. I can also direct it more personally this way. Later, there won't be a link to it from my website, as that will take a more professional tone as I go along. So be sure to click on the family link and put it into your "Favorites" so you don't forget!
04/02/03 Just so you guys know, I'll be home from Wednesday, May 28th until Thursday, June 5th.
Here's the itinerary:
Wednesday, May 28 - San Diego(SAN) to St. Louis(STL) Flight 2527 Depart San Diego(SAN) at 02:25 PM and arrive in St. Louis(STL) at 08:50 PM Thursday, June 5 - St. Louis(STL) to San Diego(SAN) Flight 1978 Depart St. Louis(STL) at 05:00 PM and arrive in San Diego(SAN) at 08:25 PMSo if any of you hoodlums wanna stop by and see me home or off, DO IT!!
And remember, buy soap!!
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
~cited from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, publisher, Ballantine Books~
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