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Time: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:06:27 GMT
Everything server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
Number of nodes: 573493 (1795 new since June 19, 2000)
Number of users: 15890 (66 new since June 19, 2000)
Number of links: 2069746 (17910 new since June 19, 2000)

Node to user ratio: 36.091 nodes per user
Link to node ratio: 3.609 links per node
Link to user ratio: 130.255 links per user

New Nodes:

• Peter McWilliams - murdered by the US Government
• High school doth make cowards of us all
• how to get overhead imagery of your house
• Ran
• cookie
• The Everything People Registry : United States : California
• random nodes
• Peter McWilliams - murdered by the US Government
• pink
• sodaconstructor
• table driven html
• how to get overhead imagery of your house
• Perl: Converting an integer or float to currency
• Everything Mailing Address Registry
• What Would Buddha Do?

Users Online (22): [JeffMagnus] [bitter_engineer] [hamster bong] [Lord Brawl] [artfuldodger] [Dis] [Stride] [mcSey] [kslawson] [stupidcomputer] [soren.harward] [SB5] [Eos] [ithron] [lakeid] [ameoba] [jes04] [entropy] [2501] [Haggis] [spoonish] [nypapa]

JeffMagnus node count: 3757 (6 new since June 19, 2000)
JeffMagnus experience: 6560 (38 more since June 19, 2000)
JeffMagnus experience to node ratio: 1.746 XP per node
JeffMagnus nodeshare: 0.656%
JeffMagnus node of the day: Everything 2 Civil War

You know what I would really like to happen today? I would love for everyone around me to shut the hell up. Just for one day, one precious day. Not in the sense of stifling thoughts, or in the sense of not being there, but in the sense of not feeling like they must constantly fill the air around me with things I am not ready for. I am not normally like this. Me, the reigning queen of meaningless chatter, finally wanting the unthinkable! Perhaps my body has suddenly become the vehicle for some new introverted person who would rather stare out a window than talk. Perhaps I am changing, or a shell of someone who has changed already.

Yes, this is my sole wish for today, and since today has yet to happen, it just may come true.

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Everything's Best Users Snapshot

   #   Users                   XP   wa7   inc Level   l_XP l_wa7
    
   1   Pseudo_Intellectual  15310   152   166    11  15144   150
   2   DMan                 12886   172   132     9  12754   179
   3   dem bones            12110    71    94    10  12016    67
   4   Segnbora-t            9984   112   127    10   9857   110
   5   Saige                 9759    87   108    10   9651    83
   6   pukesick              9148    24     9    10   9139    26
   7   jessicapierce         7714  -124    53    10   7661  -153
   8   Deborah909            7415    38    29     9   7386    39
   9   N-Wing                7282    69    19     9   7263    77
  10   tregoweth             6666    35    36     9   6630    35
  11   dannye                6644   115    94     8   6550   119
  12 * sensei                6595   102   110     7   6485   101
  13 - JeffMagnus            6563    28    21     9   6542    29
  14 - pingouin              6503    23    18     9   6485    24
  15 * yossarian             6484    37    96     9   6388    27
  16 - Lometa                6448    75     3     9   6445    87
  17   Jet-Poop              6423    76    55     9   6368    80
  18   knifegirl             6340    20    23     9   6317    19
  19 * ideath                6252    73    69     7   6183    74
  20 - ModernAngel           6234    12    10     9   6224    12
    
  21   Tem42                 6064    66    25     8   6039    73
  22   General Wesc          5995    43    14     9   5981    48
  23   /dev/joe              5823    73    82     8   5741    71
  24   hoopy_frood           5743    22     9     8   5734    24
  25   moJoe                 5668    46    12     9   5656    52
  26   novalis               5498    16    10     9   5488    17
  27   bozon                 5479    14    16     9   5463    14
  28 * yam                   4753    47    71     7   4682    43
  29 - nine9                 4711    20     0     9   4711    23
  30   alex.tan              4626    46    28     7   4598    49
  31 * RockLobster           4566    95    85     9   4481    97
  32 - juliet                4501    53     2     9   4499    61
  33   Sarcasmo              4283     3     5     8   4278     3
  34   Uberfetus             4205    49    51     6   4154    49
  35   Sylvar                4147    30     8     7   4139    34
  36   ariels                4141    16    45     8   4096    11
  37   Templeton             4075    55    56     5   4019    55
  38   kessenich             3874    31    22     8   3852    32
  39   sabre23t              3873    56    47     6   3826    57
  40   bitter_engineer       3782    38   111     7   3671    26
  41   knarph                3679    15    28     8   3651    13
  42   CaptainSpam           3656    25     8     8   3648    28
  43   Quizro                3527    17     5     8   3522    19
  44   Woundweavr            3522    13     3     8   3519    15
  45 * hamster bong          3504    83    86     5   3418    82
  46 - ailie                 3500    24     5     7   3495    27
  47 * Lord Brawl            3411    34    94     8   3317    24
  48 - Orange Julius         3386    55    14     7   3372    62
  49 - discofever            3364     3     3     7   3361     3
  50   wharfinger            3299    33    12     5   3287    37
  51   hatless               3295    28    27     8   3268    28
   *   EBU #51               3295    41    27     *   3268    43
 

Server time: 03:16 Tue Jun 20 2000 TZ +0100 not UTC since May 26, 2000

* = users rising up in the EBU; - = users falling down in the EBU
l_ = last (previous) value; inc = increase in stats value
wa7 = ((stats + (6 * l_wa7))/7) = weighted average with denominator 7

sabre23t: Random Nodes

sabre23t: Nodes to node

• E2 Done --> Todo -->
• Malaysia Done --> Todo -->
• Others Done --> Todo -->

A funny thing:
My girlfriend and I were sitting on her couch. Actually, I was sitting on the couch, she was sitting on my lap. We were joking around. The following silly conversation ensued:

Kerrie: I hate you.
Me: I hate you too.
Kerrie: I'm going to break up with you. I'm never going to look at you again.
Me: You're sitting on me.
Kerrie: Yes, but I'm not looking at you.

At this point, Kerrie's mother (who was nearby, in the kitchen) burst into paroxysms of laughter and Kerrie and I gave each other a mischevious little glance and smiled. Mission accomplished.

wake up early, go to the radiologist for another sonogram of the gallbladder. this time they find a gallstone. ah ha. at least now i know there is a reason for the pain i feel. i headed back to my family practitioner and he, upon hearing about the gallstone, sends me for more tests at shady grove hospital. there they inject me with radioactive stuff and watch as it works it's way through my liver to my gallbladder and into the small bowel. execpt that it doesn't. it doesn't move beyond my gallbladder at all. a surgeon walks in and tells me that my doctor has asked him to check up on me. i'm in pain, i tell him. but it's not too bad. he takes a look at the radioactive stuff pooled in my gut and tells me the gallbladder has got to come out. ugh. ugh ugh ugh. when? it's not am emergency, he tells me. it can be done next week, and i don't have to miss my martial arts exam this saturday if i feel well enough to do it. the surgeon wants to see if he can get the gallbladder to function by injecting me with some hormone... so i get an IV inserted and a few minutes after the juice starts flowing into me the surgeon asks me how i feel.

OH MY GOD!

the biggest wave of nausea i've ever felt hits me, and i let him know that. i've never had nausea so bad that it made me cry. it was bad. fortunately i haven't injested anything but fruit smoothies in a long time... if i had eaten anything i'm sure the vomit would have been explosive and violent. then i started hurting a lot worse than i had been to that point. but on the plus side, it worked pretty quickly to move the radioactive stuff out of my gallbladder. getting everything out of there was apparently a good sign... i don't know if that positive result will preclude the need for surgery or not, but i sure hope so. i meet again with the surgeon tomorrow morning to find out for sure.

wish me luck.

afternoon

finally reached level 6! i am a Crafter! there is a picture on my homenode! tra la la!

My computer is seriously on the fritz, I think. My monitor keeps flashing every so often, and I've had many freeze ups, but no blue screens of death, oddly. Ah well, what're you going to do? If this monitor goes, I'll be kind of scr3w3d because I don't have another laying around any where..

This illness is still hanging around and has taken my voice away to some strange place, I can just barely talk, and I sound pretty comical. He-he. Ahh.. I wrote an everything2 will, just in case I don't pull through this most hideous of colds.

I cooked some spaghetti sauce today, which took much effort from my weak body, I even started sweating a bit while I was grating cheese. I think that's probably one of those big signs that you should be sleeping instead of trying to do things, when you start sweating while doing those really low exertion activities. I used an entire clove of garlic in the sauce, too, because my brain urged me to do so, insisting it might aid in my recovery. (I even minced it myself, Chef Hamster Bong!)

My ISP is being a complete piece of sh#*it, I think they implemented a disconnect when idle for more than five seconds thing.. well, I've got my e-mail checking every minute now, take that ISP! TAKE THAT! I wish that every ISP around here wasn't so terribly lame and/or expensive.

I've noticed everyone mentioning birthday and yossarian, and then it occurred to me that it's either his birthday today or some time in the near future/recent past (I do recall mention of it being this week.. I think). So.. happy birthday yossarian, you dreamy little human. If I wasn't feeling so terrible I'd think of something really neat to do in celebration..instead, I'll just stare off in the general direction of New York and think of some good wishes for the wind to deliver.

I go out this morning to return a video (South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, if you need to know) and on my way back, I hit the front tire of my bike on the curb...

Pop hissssssss.. ohshit

And there I was, hauling my bike home on my back, three miles through the suburbs. Ack.

• Lunch with Y. A girl, blonde, cute, and about six years old stands up in the booth at our left. She clutches the ledge with tiny, magenta-tipped fingers, and sticks her tongue out at us, as in, she gave Gene Simmons a run for his money. Based on this, as well as a later occurrence of her trying to remove her tank top while back in the booth, lifting the front of her skirt while in line with her mother, and reiteration of the tongue incident, we speculated (strongly) that she would be a stripper one day, receive a consistent supply of gifts, and probably have a drinking problem.
• Went to work although I wasn't scheduled. I did more reading on EIGRP and went through some tickets that were like hairballs of incompetence and idiocy. Noted again that people who prefer the gunslinging/pointing fingers method of career advancement are obvious and crude.
• Bought The Manchurian Candidate and The Endless Summer on DVD for a friend's birthday.
• I'm seeing certain positive changes from my dairy-free path.

I went in to work, and told my boss I would only be there for a couple hours.

The act of telling the CHENG about my grandmother brought the grief and shock back, and I it showed on my face, too. I took care of a few things, told my guys, and went home. When I got home, the kids were happy to see me, but curious.

"Why daddy home?",

the tadpole asked me. I brought the girls over to sit by me, and Jen took the boy off to his room. I explained to them, pretty much as my dad had to me, that granny had died in a car accident. One of them, the one who had been very close to my wife's grandmother before she died, took the news fine. The other, the sensitive one, cried, and had a harder time. Telling children that someone they know is dead is not a pleasant task. For a long time, wife and I bought replacement pets, or said that I "took them to work" instead of going through the hell of breaking their little hearts. I'm sure we've screwed them up by doing it, too.