27. October, 2003 - Homecoming Week
- Homecoming traditions are the stuff of legends - or at least fairy tales tells what’s going to be going on around the U this week. Homecoming is Saturday, and I’m expecting the worst, especially after this weekend saw windows broken at the church next door to me (Friday night at about 11:30, and the breaking glass noise woke me up) and other assorted vandalism in the neighborhood. For me, a riot would probably be better than a “normal weekend,” since a riot would at least draw all the trouble into Dinkytown.
- I walked through another house yesterday. After spending about an hour looking at it, and then much of the afternoon pondering, I’ve decided it just won’t work. Too much work to be done on the house, and I won’t have the time to get it fixed up this year unless I don’t even move into it and just get contractors working on it right away. This is probably about the worst time for me to be looking for houses since I’m busy with work and a bunch of personal things, but with the vandalism Friday night, I’m pretty sure I don’t want to live here anymore either. I like most of my neighbors, but there are just too many assholes in the neighborhood every Friday and Saturday night.
- On a more recreational note, the Washington Post has a roundup of five new books on Winston Churchill. Dang. I bet I end up buying at least one of them.
- Finally, Company fined $2 million in first ruling on California’s anti-spam law, the first judgement under the law. I don’t expect it to have much effect on the amount of spam I get, but there’s some satisfaction in thinking that maybe it will bankrupt these bastards. [fark!]
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Last updated on Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:19:31.