A new semester begins Tuesday. Now that most brothers are back in town, we cleaned the house. (I swept, mopped, and dusted the TV room and bar.) Afterward, we watched Enemy of the State, which I found extremely entertaining — almost as much as The Matrix.

Ian invited me along with him and his friends Matt and Megan to dinner at the Mongolian Barbecue. Despite being repeated efforts, I have never managed to actually eat there. It's always insanely busy whenever I go, and we end up going elsewhere. Well, nothing changes under the sun: we found ourselves upstairs at Panini's. Megan and I attempted to defeat the historical arcade game Centipede by teaming up, with one of us firing and the other positioning and aiming. It was a valiant effort, but it takes a special kind of unified intelligence — and wicked hand speed — to play Centipede well. With practice, we might get good enough to kick some booty.

The development version of the journal code can now display entries within an arbitrary, user-definable range of dates. Not only that, but it can display either in forward or reverse chronological order. Then there are buttons to set the current range to “today”, “this month”, or the reverse of the current selection. The default behavior, sensibly, is to display the newest entry. Progress!