Shrek 2

Right, so two-day catch-up.

Yesterday, Rachel and I played a game of Monopoly whilst watching Ever After and I got creamed. Then we packed up the car with stuff for today's garage sale, went over to the Herald, dropped it all off, zipped over to Pizza My Heart for a late dinner and went to the 8 o'clock showing of Shrek 2.

It's good stuff. It's an amazing movie if you are familiar with the classic fairy tale movies. They're all in there. Really!

Then, today, we had the garage sale at the Herald newspaper lot, and Rachel picked up a 54 volume set of classic works of literature. For a buck. One buck and my broken back to carry them all to the car. That's like three shelves of books! She loves it! There's so much there and she'll be able to use it all for her classes. (The joys of being an English major.)

Oh, and I picked up Quake II for a mere $3. Now I'm off mod-hunting.

Resume

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Cookies

Today was a tough day.

Rachel and I had a fun morning out. Both my parents had to be out, so we went shopping a bit. I picked up Darkened Skye and Return Fire 2 for my PC. Unfortunately, one of them doesn't work with modern video drivers. So I'm working on it. I also got Five For Fighting's "Battle For Everything". I've been wanting it for a while and got a good deal.

After lunch, we watched X2: X-Men United, since I haven't seen it yet. It was pretty cool, but some of the fighting segments were disgustingly violent, even if most of the gore happens off-screen.

Then we decided to bake cookies.

This was, unfortunately, not without it's share of fighting. It all happened between Mom, Rachel, and I. I won't go into the details here, but it was very trying. It's not like our relationship has ever been without fighting, however this was rough, real rough. Thankfully the Lord saw us through it, but it's still frustrating to remember. I hope that as a result, our relationship will grow stronger.

Oh, and the cookies turned out good too.

After that, we had a nice dinner out at Turtle Bay then went to college group, which was, of course, awesome as usual, even if we were both getting a bit sick from something we'd had to eat today.

Team Japan Photo

Team Japan 2004 photo mosaic, click for larger view (168Kb download)


At the request of our Japanese friends in Tachikawa, I've posted the team photo that we used for our prayer cards. Unfortunately we couldn't actually have a team photo this year, because of the nature of our team.

We had three of the 6-week guys on campus. Another 6-weeker was in Israel at IBEX. Then there was Chiharu, who was working on her Masters in Biblical Counseling, Aya who was doing her one year Bible program. Dr. Halstead has been busy teaching and helping his daughter moved to India as a full-time missionary. Christi is who-knows-where and Brandon is down in San Diego somewhere.

So, we have a photo mosaic. We're all in there if you look closely.

(And if you look really close you can see a sign that says "Policeman dropping in this store")

PearPC - PowerPC Architecture Emulator

OS News reports PearPC a PPC emulator for x86.

Good golly! Is this really happening in my lifetime? Max OS X on Intel! Sure we've all seen the Darwin port of the kernel, but you haven't seen their eye candy GUI running on an Athlon box!

I'd try this, but all I have is the original Mac OS X.

Dirt

I'm beat! I just spent all morning at a friend's house moving dirt to level part of their yard. They're trying to put in a new fence around the side of the house to extend their backyard. To do that, we had to move a ton of dirt to level the ground that they want to plant grass on. Some of their other friends helped and they were able to get three of the fence posts in.

All in all, Rachel and I had a good time. Plus we got a free lunch and we got paid. And all of that was after they took us to dinner last night.

Afterwards, she and I went over to Del Monte Center and checked out the stores. We both got a used CD at Wherehouse. I found Dream Theater's Awake and was considering their latest album, Train of Thought. She picked up the Ever After soundtrack.

The rest of the day will probably be just lounging around after all that work. Maybe we'll watch some of the classic Star Wars movies.

AROS: Amiga Research Operating System

Wow. I found AROS from a resource link on OS News (A website I frequent, daily) and it looks pretty interesting.

The only way I got it to sort of run is by using Damn Small Linux and downloading it while running that system. It ran, but I couldn't figure it out. I'm totally clueless about Amiga stuff, aside from the jokes in older PVP Online comics.

Needless to say, it was an experience. The video on the AROS website was pretty cool, if you knew what they were talking about in Swedish.