Thursday, 24 August 2000 11:15pm

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f yesterday's update sounded depressing or anything like tha to you, please don't worry, I wasn't depressed at all, just not in a mood to write in this thing. I'm saying this because Ben from Berkeley wrote to me and he was trying to encourage me or make me feel better or something. I appreciate it a lot, really. I know that people are out there reading this, I'm just jealous of Cami's popularity, that's all :) So anyway, earlier today, Cami and I went to Toys-R-Us to buy a birthday present for her brother Kirk. Well it ended up that she didn't buy Kirk anything, and I ended up buying a bunch of stuff. I knew this was gonna happen!! Anyway, they had these old Micro Machines Star Wars action figures from 1997 on sale, for only 97 cents for each pack! So I bought like six packs of them, and I opened up two of them and created a little battle scene on top of my monitor. There's Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Obi Wan, Yoda, C3PO, R2D2, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca battling it out with Darth Vader and some storm troopers. I also got two packs of ships, including one half-completed Death Star. I can't believe these things were so cheap! By the way, the person you see on the desktop of my computer monitor is my fiancee, Natalie Portman. We're getting married soon... only she doesn't really know it yet.
There's Cami, sitting in her little corner of her little box in the living room. She is so nice. She transfers all these pictures from my digital camera for me because my camera doesn't work with stupid Windows 2000. Don't get me wrong, Win2k has been great to me so far. I don't even think it has crashed even once yet. Well, maybe once.
Right now, Cami and Mary are in the other room giggling and stuff. They are probably talking girl-talk again. Sometimes they talk girl-talk in front of me, or even with me. I knew girl-talk has been going on for years, but I just didnt' know that it happened so often. I have never been involved in so many girl-talk conversations in my whole life. But I guess I should have expected it. But it's kind of weird. Like, I didn't really know Mary that well before I moved in here, but I know some interesting girl-talk-type things about her and Cami that most guys probably don't know about... and wouldn't want to know about. Also the fact that I share a bathroom with Cami (and the fact that Mary had been using our shower since hers was broken) has eliminated much of the "mystery" of the fairer sex. I also find myself myself doing things like giving up a trip to Barona to go to the drug store with Cami so she can buy girly pink razors. I am sure it's only a matter of time before I end up having to buy some feminine products for one of these two girls. Hmmm. I may be getting too girly here. I think this weekend I should get some testosterone flowing. I should do something like go skating or something. But instead, I will probably end up going to Disneyland with Lawrence. That's not very manly at all.
There's some girl at Cami's work that she says is cute. I'm trying to get Cami to hook her up with me. Cami says she will see what she can do. I need to do something to make sure the landlords don't think that I'm the 21st-

Bryan and Mary engaged in girl-talk with Cami

Century Jack Tripper, you know what I mean? Maybe she can pull a "You know, I haven't been to that Karl Strauss Sunday brunch buffet before. Me and my [ehem] male roommate were thinking about going. Would you like to join us?" Well, I'm sure she'll think of something much more clever than that!
It's already been practically a week since we came back from Vegas. Man, where has the time gone? Ever since we came back from Vegas, all I can think about is going back. If the air wasn't so dry, I'd just move there. But I don't know if I could handle living out there, I mean, my chapped lips are still recovering from the dry, desert air. So yeah, living there is probably pretty much out of the question. Man I am so spoiled by the weather here in San Diego. I need some more buffets, some more jungle swimming pools, and some more not having to care about anything at all. By the way, the Vegas update really is coming. But we actually took pictures on conventional film this trip (some even in black and white), so well, I'm waiting to get the pictures developed so you guys can see them before I make this update. That way it could be all together, you know?
Well, I hope all the pictures and junk make up for the crappy update from yesterday!

Friday, 25 August 2000 11:45am

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ack in L.A. My mom's always asking me when the next time I'm going to visit home is. Why I don't visit home more often. So I visit home. I get here, and nobody is here. My family is very busy all the time and this is pretty typical. I visit home, and there's nothing to do. My family is all off doing their own things. Meanwhile, I don't really have any friends left around here since most everyone has spread out and moved away, so the only thing left to do is sit at home and watch TV. And my mom wonders why I don't visit home more often?
Anyway, before I got here tonight, I went out to dinner with Cami to Red Lobster. We ate lots of lobster. And it was good. Then she took off to visit her home, and a little while later, I took off to get here. I was actually so bored and sleepy that I tried to go to sleep at 11pm, but it didn't happen because it's just plain too hot here right now. So I took a cold shower to cool down, and to hopefully try to get to sleep again. Actually, I was gonna start writing a big article on designing Flash, but I was too sleepy to really be able to concentrate which is why I deceded to just go to sleep.
That little bit of fat around my tummy is growing. I am drinking more beer than ever, and I am as inactive as ever. This is a bad combination. At work, I sit in front of the computer all day. Then i come home and sit in front of the computer some more. Well, now that I'm living with the two hot chicks that I'll never get, I've been getting out a lot more, but getting out seems to mostly consist of sitting around somewhere that isn't home. And when it's not any of those things, I am either eating, or playing blackjack or something. I need to start skating again. Or go running. Or go swimming. Or something. No, I am not getting obese, and in fact, I am still pretty darn skinny. But knowing that this extra weight on me is just pure, lazy fat is not very comforting. When I get out of the shower, instead of seeing my former six-pack (which I really only had because I had no fat to speak of, not because I had big muscles), I see a miniature pot belly.
I must do something, quickly.

Saturday, 26 August 2000 1:15am (sunday morning)

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hhhh, lazy weekends. Didn't do much today. I did see my family though, and I did even get a home cooked lunch. Yummy. Got my car smogged, and it passed. In the evening I went down to Disneyland. Lawrence's whole family came down, and we all just hung out there. A crazy thing happened on the way out of Toon Town. This guy says "excuse me, did you buy NikeID shoes?" I was wearing the t-shirt that came with my NikeID shoes, and I said yes. Then this guy got sooo happy and he asked if he could take a picture with me. As it turns out the guy worked on that part of the Nike website. Maybe he just wanted to feel like his work actually means something. I don't know. But I really made that guy's day.
The fireworks show at Disneyland is so good. Too bad this weekend is the last one for it. We also saw Fantasmic. I love that show too. I also checked out the Country Bear Jamboree, which I have to admit, I had never seen before in my entire life. I also got extremely wet. I also had Lawrence take some lame pictures of me so I could use up the rest of that film so I could get those pictures from vegas. I also can't think of any other connecting phrases right now except for "I also". I have 6 more frames of that film to use up.