I just woke up with my entire right arm numb. I had the whole ‘so tingly it almost hurts’ thing goin’ on. It went away when I let the blood rush into my arm though. What a weird feeling to wake up with.
Let’s see… not too much exciting stuff happened this week, which makes for a semi-unexciting post, but an ok post is better than no post at all, right? Eh? Ehhh? Aight anyway, I got a DVD burner. I’m psyched about that. It is dual format, so I can burn +r/w and -r/w – pretty damn cool.
“But Peet, that sounds really expensive! Do you have the kind of money for a dual format DVD+/-RW?”
Relax, you concered reader you. I actually found a super cheap internal drive and bought an external IEEE1394 case. Together, with tax and shipping, I got the whole thing for $161. If you know anything about computer peripherals and hardware, that price is just, insanely good. I challenge you to find an internal drive and a case and get them to your door for less than that. I will be very proud if you can. An already-assembled external drive costs about $300+, so… I am the man. Hehehe. I ordered the pieces from different places and they got here really fast – I was psyched about that. When they got here I had to go to a meeting, it was like not being able to open your Christmas/Hanukah presents for hours after you get them. When I did get back to my room, I put the internal inside the case, connected the EIDE ribbon and power, and then connected it to my computer and it works! I have since ordered some 4x DVD+Rs from Amazon and they should get here around the 9th. Yaaaay for all that.
Last night was open gymnastics gym, which my boy Dewey and I go to every week. You’re supposed to be enrolled in one of the classes at the gymnastics facility to be able to take advantage of open gym, but we’re sort of VIPs there. Most of the classes are for little kids, and we’re much more advanced than they are, and we’re more responsible and less likely to kill ourselves by being stupid, etc. We stretch a little bit on the floor and then its onto the trampoline. Both of us are pretty good, for our experience level that is. I took gymnastics for about 2 years when I was 9 years old, and since then I have gotten a LOT better without any formal training. Dewey and I go every week and try to think of new stuff we can do. Last night was the most productive night I’ve had in landing tricks. I learned for the first time and landed a flatspin 720 and a backflip full twist. I had never tried either of those and I learned and landed them both in one evening! I had tried a double front flip before, but I had never landed it, I would always open up too early and land sitting down on the mat, or too late and end up doing a dive roll. Last nite I went for it and bam, landed it perfectly. I think if I had a trampoline in my house I might never stop trying crazy stuff on it. If ever I make a lot of money in my job when I have my own house, I am getting a trampoline. I can’t wait!
Tonite is the first big bar party. Bar parties = the coolest. One of the frats or sororities rents out a bar/club for the nite, and only DU kids can get it. It is like going to a dance club with 300 of your closest friends, and I especially love it because I get to dance circles around people that had no idea I could at all – after all, to a lot of people I’m just ‘Peet the computer guy’. Oh, I’ll show ‘em.

Listening to: Yo, Flaco! – Benjamin’s Ark