Journal entries for December, 1995

Hey. This will be FAST cause of papi. Well, we're leaving on the trip today, yippee. Christmas was cool, but it's not really fun getting money... OK, well, gotta go. Later.

OK, I'm gonna try and finish up quickly, to go to Ed's house. Well, abt. the money: That's $200 cause I'm not gonna assume that I got on the honor roll. Anyways, Abuelo and Abuela are gonna give me somewhere around that, say $150, like a worst case scenario kind of thing. The range, then, is $350 to $500 (or $550 if Abuelo and Abuela give me $250 but I doubt that). The SGX-2000 is $549 out of ME and then I'd get an SKB 4-space rack, which is abt. $100, so my goal is $650. I hve $56, but I have to buy presents and stuff. So let's say I go broke buying presents, I'll have like $350 (again, worst case scenario), which means $300 left. That won't take long. OK, next is a short thing, we've been having problems with the e-mail because winsock.dll somehow got deleted. We lost the Windows cd-rom, and I couldn't reinstall it, so it ended up that Papi bought a new copy of Win95. Well, gotta go, I'll finish this later. School's out. YESS!!! Later.

Hey, what's up. Well, lots has happened but I really don't feel like writing tons right now, so I guess you'll (I'll) miss out on some stuff. I should have written sooner. OK, well, first I guess would be the christmas show. Oh, yeah, today's Wed., had my last final, English, today. OK, well, last Fri. was the christmas show and we played a bunch of christmas songs. I was like, mature or something, and didn't play when I wasn't supposed to, etc. It was cool. Afterwards me, Ryan, Liz, Alan, Sarah, and others that I don't know well yet (like Alan Paluska) were jumping from that gymnastics springboard thingie into the gymnastics mats. It was cool. OK, next: just that I tried to learn ACOS but JP uses the 7-string and I had no idea how I could play it except for having the Bass blay those B's in the intro, but I'm sure we couldn't do that thru the whole song (if we played it). Finally what I did is tune the Peavey different ways and try to play it (at least the intro). Well, for the intro the best tuning is B E A G D B, like cutting off the 1st string. But in the rest of the song, I'm sure JP uses the first string, so I thought of tuning it B F# G D B E. This gives me the entire range, but it's some pretty big stretches in some parts. So anyways, next topic: midterms. This will be purposely short. I hate midterms! There. I said it was gonna be short! No, JK, OK: Chem one was great! Prob'ly got 100 or close. Missed 3 completion but I did the bonus problem, which I assume (hope) is worth more than a completion. If it's worth 3 times more, I'll have 100 (I think)! Spanish sucked (that's all I got to say about that), Bilder was hard but I think I did pretty well on it. The Geometry was simple (I finished it in half an hour, out of an hour and a half that we had), and Cushing's today was OK. On Cushing's We had to write a fully developed essay. Mine came out really good, but I had to stay 20 min. late to finish it! OK, next, Ed and Kwadwo are here. In fact, today I'm going to Ed's house to jam. He's playing lots of blues now, which is great cause that's what I jam best to. Haven't really talked a lot with Kwadwo but we talked a bit today and he mentioned Doom. I want to play Doom 2-player again! I haven't played 2-player since Kwadwo left! Oh, wait, I went to Ed's house that day, but still, only once, and that was a long time ago. Well, I guess I am writing tons! Next, Oh, christmas. It's 5 days away! Next Monday, today's Wed. YES!! I haven't been that excited or whatever this year, but now I am getting excited cause I'm getting lots of money towards the SGX-2000. Mami and Papi are giving me $200 for christmas plus $100 if i get on the honor roll this quarter (don't think so, but it would be cool), BRB rosalyn's gonna clean the CR Room. Later!

Hey. Papi got MS Plus and we installed it. That's pretty cool, cause it's easier to use the computer now. Copied Erotomania, but I don't think we can play ANY DT for a while... Today at school we had a Math OPEN BOOK quiz and for some reason I couldn't see a timely way to do ANY of the problems. There were only 4, BTW. I would start one, see it was going to take a while, and start another so that I would get the most done. Well, every one seemed like it would take a long time, so I didn't get to finish any of them. NONE!!! Tomorrow I'm going to ask Nieves if I can have another chance. Everyone else found them all easy except for the last one (which I didn't have time to even LOOK at). I got my calculator back, though. Yippee. Well, I'm using cool desktop themes and I got scripting working so now connecting to CaribeNet is a lot easier. Wow, Awake was scratched in Voices, so I opened one of the 2 that Abuela brought me from Japan and the CD is printed differently, lighter. I opened the other Japanese one, and it's the same. Maybe the one bought here in USA is a misprint. But I think it looks cooler the way it is on the American one. Strange. Anyways, gotta go. D/L'ed a windows text-to-speech program. Oh, and finals are coming next week. that sucks. Oh well, later.

Hey. I should have written sooner, cause a lot has gone on these last few days, but I didn't feel like it. Well, let's see, On Friday Jimmy was supposed to come home with me on the bus, then he'd spend the night, and Saturday we'd go surfing or something. And George was going to stay after school then get a ride to Dorado and meet me at home, then we'd practice for the talent show and he'd leave around 8 or something. On Fri. George tells me he's going on the bus too. Well, I was the only one going to Dorado on Fri., because the little kids had no school, and everyone else was doing something I guess, but anyways, when I get on the bus, Manuel is waiting with the engine on, he wants to leave right away. I tell him to wait cause I have 2 friends coming too. Then he says that he can't wait for them and anyways they need a permission slip from the office to ride on the bus. Then he starts leaving, and I'm like, I can't just leave them here, so he lets me call to see if I can get Papi to take us home or something, but I can't, then as I'm hanging up Jim comes and tells me 'he doesn't feel like going.' I'm like, f**k, nothing's working out. But there's still George, and he's nowhere to be found. I tell Jim to tell George that he can't come with me, then I have to leave. I get home, blah blah, then the doorbell rings. It turns out that Alan brought George home, then they both stayed and we played. When it came time to leave, George couldn't get a taxi, so he was gonna walk. To RIO HONDO! It turned out the guard agreed to take him for $20. So I was satisfied, and I went home. Yesterday, George's parents call and they say they haven't heard from George in 2 days. Later, George calls and says he's OK. Well, I guess it all turned out OK, I'm just glad he's OK, cause I lent him $15 <g>. Later.

Ok, the party was cool. I can't really remember what else I wanted to say, should have written it down or something, so I guess bye.

Hey, been a few days. Yesterday was Andres and Grant's disco party and today was Celina's. I was the DJ for Andres' party and I'm NOT doing that again. Those kids are so f**king immature! They asked for a song, and I said OK, then they got all pissed because I didn't take the song that was playing off RIGHT THEN and put the one they asked for. It's like, sorry, there's other people here who also listen to the music. Celina's party was a surprise party and I wasn't sure of the details. Today I got 2 CD's: Extreme and Hidden Treasures and they're both cool. Anyways, I wasn't sure if there would be a DJ or if it would be like Liz's party, or what, so JIK I took the Extreme CD because it has 'More Than Words' on it. It turned out to be like Liz's party, except better because Celina doesn't know (or doesn't want to invite) Gustavo, Marcos, etc. so most of the people liked the same music. More tomorrow, gotta go. Later.