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  • lunch March 4, 2003
    lunch: cafe grand lux with tom
  • 03/03/03 March 3, 2003
    well, i didn’t send out the 03/03/03 cards. bummer.
  • your first name March 2, 2003
    What words start with your first name? Go to Merriam-Webster and type in your name with an asterick at the end. The asterick will search for words that start with your name. Like, for me, I searched for: matt*Some interesting…
  • fonts of places February 27, 2003
    It would be fun if each city and state had an official font. Here’s some fonts named after places. Some make sense like San Marco and Parisian. But like Chicago and New York make no sense. Apparently the fonts of…
  • goofballing February 25, 2003
    end of day at work, 4:55am. Dave our goofball copywriter comes over looking for trouble. He shoots his foam rocket at me. Dave picks up a cardboard tube with a poster inside it. He sees rocket and cardboard tube, and…
  • round tables February 25, 2003
    when was the last time you ate at a round table? It’s been awhile for me, it seems there are many more rectangular tables in our culture than round ones. However, I think outdoor tables tend to be round more…
  • high school reunion snail mail February 24, 2003
    Got a letter in the mail for my 10-year high school reunion. A couple of the questions were quite loaded. What is your favorite high school memory? List highlights of the past ten years. Answers coming soon.
  • called in sick for work today February 24, 2003
    did some laundry. slept alot. played on powerbook. I wish that OS X had some features from OS 9: * Apple Menu items * Right drop down menu * spring folders at the bottom of screen
  • lisa’s work February 23, 2003
    Went to Lisa’s work for the first time. She had some stuff to print out, so being bored, I organized her print supplies and cd supply drawers.
  • weekend in Champaign, Illinois February 22, 2003
    The morning was crazy as Lisa was running around trying to get stuff done for Rimas’s ads. She left in the morning to do errands: Feed fish at parent’s house (they are on vacation), go to work to print black…
  • friday February 21, 2003
    After work, went home to pick up clothes and my powerbook for the weekend. Took the Metra train out to Lisa’s. The train ride was good, other than the dude a couple seats in front of me who was on…
  • powerbook boots February 20, 2003
    Finally I booted up my powerbook. It works!
  • day before your birthday February 20, 2003
    In addition to celebrating our birthday, we should also celebrate the day before our birthday, because that is the last day that we are at that age.~thought generated by conversation with David Rothkopf of Down the Line. Tomorrow is Dave’s…
  • powerbook opening February 19, 2003
    Opened the powerbook at home, and took lots of digipics. Haven’t even turned it on yet (it took me too long with taking all these pictures of the monkey opening the boxes). And then I had to fully charge the…
  • it’s here! where?! February 19, 2003
    I’m so shocked, UPS’s website is saying that my new powerbook is here in the Tower now. I wonder where it is. C’mon, gimme, gimme.
  • it arrived! February 19, 2003
    Wooo! it just arrived. It’s in a non-descript Amazon box. That’s good. I don’t have to tote a big apple box home. Good thing I brought in those big plastic bags too.
  • garbage cans are important February 19, 2003
    Today was the New Employee breakfast and I realized the importance of having plenty of garbage cans for people.
  • UPS vs USPS February 19, 2003
    Check out this postcard I put on the Chicago Tribune UPS box at work. I wonder how long it will stay up.
  • 24 February 18, 2003
    24 was good. The bomb wasn’t the real bomb! I shoulda seen that coming, because how else would they continue the show? But I was standing up yelling, “get the nuke! get the nuke!” when they were chasing down the…
  • overdue books February 18, 2003
    I realized that I have 9 books that are three weeks overdue. Crap. Good mood from ordering the powerbook is now over.
  • Went to an art talk February 18, 2003
    February 18, School of the Art Institute president Tony Jones and Columbia College prexy Warrick Carter on “Memories of the Past and Dreams of the Future: Educating Artists,” Fullerton Hall I thought this would be an interesting talk about art…
  • i did it! February 18, 2003
    i finally did it! I ordered the $1800 12″ powerbook off amazon! I knew I was gonna do this sooner or later. And since I found that money from grandma, i thought that I could afford it now. Oh, i…
  • most popular color in the bible February 17, 2003
    According to the King James Version, here is the most mentioned color words in the Bible. 52 red 0 orange 4 yellow 41 green 49 blue 48 purple 4 brown 66 white 18 black 6 gray 361 gold 282 silver…
  • sunday February 16, 2003
    Watched some silly rescue show with lisa. Ugh, she said cuz she watched WWE the night before. But then I managed to slip in some Spongebob Squarepants. Patrick and spongebob were selling chocolate door to door, so I ate some…
  • this weekend hobby lobby February 15, 2003
    Went to Hobby Lobby with Lisa to order a custom mat for Lisa’s tiny todd marrone drawing. Something thick like 8-ply. I found a new yellow color burlap. Also looked at interesting boxes for under my bathroom sink, but none…
  • Jumble Crosswords logo February 14, 2003
    Client: Tribune Media Services
  • vday February 14, 2003
    went to lisa’s. drove to papa john’s in the snow. Lisa ran over the median. Watched Spider-Man. Was impressed with spider-man Lisa gave me a nice valentines card with some spongebob squarepants chocolate!!!
  • no war February 9, 2003
    “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”– Albert Einstein
  • house gymnastics February 4, 2003
    I strongly encourage everybody to try out some of the maneuvers from house gymnastics and submit it to their site. Here’s me doing the 5-star X-Door move.
  • lost money February 3, 2003
    I lost money this yesterday. At the train station, I thought I put $20 on my transit card. Walked through the turnstile and waited for the train. A lady came by and found $20 on the ground. She asked me…
  • M.A.T.T. February 3, 2003
    Mapping Analysis Tool for Transportation Message Analysis Test Tool Multimission Advanced Tactical Terminal AND MY ALL TIME MOST FAVORITE: Master At Table Tennis that is just freakin awesome!

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