I'm considering taking a quick trip to see a friend in New England. It would cost money and introduce some inconvenience, but Good Nathan offered some good advice, paraphrasing his father: “Stop figuring out why you can't do it, and just assume you have to. Figure out how, then figure out how to enjoy it, and then do it. And none of the above will turn out to have actually been hard at all. And your life will go the way you want it to.” Amen.

I briefly powered down my Mac Quadra, the Web server hosting schmonz.com, davidj.org, and dkkidz.com, because I needed to remove one of its three spare Ethernet cards (it's a good place to store them) for use in Rowan's Unix-Mac-to-be. It took a lot longer than “briefly” to cajole the Quadra to come back up. I am concerned that the hard drive may be exhibiting some improper behavior. A replacement drive is on the way. At least the Ethernet card happily inserted into his IIci and worked right away. I pulled the OpenBSD/mac68k tarballs from the local mirror at cwrulug.cwru.edu and commenced installing.

Hot Dog Roff held an alcohol education meeting. This program permits our chapter to not outlaw the use of alcohol. The program ran on computer yet was still fairly entertaining. During the meeting, H-Dog got a call from Carole Chandler, the local TV news reporter he'd invited to formal. She politely declined his invitation. No matter, I still gots to shout out mad respef to Roff: he's got balls the size of both Carolinas, and he grew them all by his damn self.

My roommate and I wreaked havoc at the pledge meeting. Pledge Steve had transgressed again, and his punishment was determined to be to perform push-ups every time pledgemaster Andrew expressed exasperation. I planted the seed by telling the brothers in attendance to be noisy and disrespectful. As planned, Andrew soon became exasperated, Dutton rang his little bell, Steve did his push-ups, and the meeting went on. Later, the brothers became highly boisterous, Andrew once again became exasperated, Dutton again rang the bell, Steve again performed push-ups — and all of this caused Andrew to become exasperated yet again, at which point we had little choice but to repeat the process. Riotously funny for everyone but Andrew. (I imagine it helps if you know Andrew.) At that point we'd been very disruptive, and when Andrew asked us to leave, we did so immediately. I apologized to him afterward. I hope his feelings weren't hurt, since that was not our intent.

Another Tuesday night for this 21-year-old, another outing to the Euc. Josh was there, and he related that he and Zuck are considering moving to Boston this summer. How tremendously cool it would be to live with two of my favorite Phi Kaps in a city that is not Cleveland!

DC and I cut out of the Euc, stomach-motivated, to Taco Bell. For a moment, we had trouble figuring out how to pay a total of $15 with my $20 and his $11. Humbling, when I consider the math I used to do in my head as a kid. Sad, when I realize that I haven't taken a math course in four years. It once was my favorite and best subject. How are the mighty fallen!