Went to breakfast with Josh, Tony, and Rowan at the prohibitively expensive East Cleveland Best Steak & Gyros. We will go to the one downtown next time: costs less, tastes better, in a nicer neighborhood, and only a slightly longer drive from the house.

After breakfast, we dropped Rowan off at the house and went to Value City. I found the same model of hat which I had obtained from Gabe for the price of our friendship, so I bought one for him in hopes of getting the friendship back. (Gabe is a management major.) It worked.

Watched the terrible Browns game at Josh's with Zuck and Darin. I like spending time with Phi Kap alumni because it illustrates the difference between a college kid and an adult. Even as these specific alumni enjoy being goofy and acting like kids sometimes, they have about them a greater sense of self-assurance (not to be confused with self-confidence) than most of the currently active brothers. In light of my reasoning for joining a fraternity, it is reassuring to see that it has done for others what I want it to do for me. I still have a long path ahead of me, but I am confident that I am on the right one.

When I was in junior high, I discovered in the school library a program called “Music Studio” for the Apple IIGS. Conveniently, the school library also had an Apple IIGS. Every day at lunch, I would eat as quickly as possible, then take my floppy disk to the library and write music. It was frustrating to use Music Studio because it was too slow to keep up with the movement of the mouse across the staves, or to simultaneously play more than a few voices. But it was worth the frustration because I could listen to my work and save it on disk.

Before I finished eighth grade, I recorded everything on that floppy disk to audio cassette, rendered into stunning audio by the Apple IIGS. I found the audio cassette during my freshman year of college and, at about the same time I was recording my first improvisations on my new digital piano, dubbed the tape to digital audio for purposes of preservation. Today, thanks to Gabe's computer and a program developed in part by a friend of his, I split the songs into separate files and cropped out leading and trailing noise and silence. Finally, I compressed them into MP3 format for convenient storage and listening. I think they're great fun to listen to, but I'd love to hear your less biased opinion. If you'd like to hear them, drop me a line.

Went to dinner with Dave at the East Cleveland Taco Bell. I like talking shop (computers) with Dave because he often approaches things from an unexpected angle. Also, his work is similar enough to mine that we can share ideas, but different enough that it expands my sphere of knowledge just a bit. He works in a university environment and I find it instructive to compare and contrast with my workplace and my concept of what a workplace should be.