Well I'm almost completely healed these days. My gums are still slightly pained but nothing I can't handle. I can eat almost everything I did before I was sick and I'm sleeping fine (that is, without the aid of six ACCs.) I think the most interesting thing that came out of being as sick as I was for that week, other than the realization that being terminally ill would be really really depressing, was that for the first time since who knows when I wasn't obsessed with girls. That's right. I was in so much pain that I couldn't even think about girls. And I always think about girls. What's even better, is that I don't miss it. I don't care. It's not that I don't want a girlfriend and that I'll avoid it. That's not it at all. It's just that I'm not going to be crazy about it. It's a strangely liberated feeling.

I'm feeling pretty sick. Yesterday I woke up feeling horrible (physically not mentally) and things only got worse as the day went on. By the night, I was shivering and my skin was completely goosebumped. As if that wasn't enough I had a dehabilitating headache and was burning up. Wonderful day it was. Finally, I was forced to pop some of Farron's Neo-Citrin to knock me out, although the sleep was feverish and patchy at best. This morning I woke up drenched in sweat but thankfully felt much better.

Noticed at Ars Technica yesterday and Wired today about a joint announcement issued recently about how "Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox products and services to be announced at a later date." It was also confirmed that this processor technology was a PowerPC and that it was going to be the main processor.

I think I just possibly left the worst answering machine message in my life a couple of moments ago. Now I know why I hate those fucking machines. Never leaving a message again! Wow, though.

While making my daily round at Slashdot today I was intrigued by a comment made in one of the stories. To quote:

Thanks to an agreement between Lindows and Seagate, from October you will be able to choose a hard drive with or without Lindows. Michael Robertson, in his usual marketing speak, compares this to adding "Fluoride in the water", because now you get for free something you used to need to go after (people used to go to dentist to get their fluoride).

The Delphic Expanse. The theme of this season of Enterprise takes place where the season finale left off. Earth was attacked by a mysterious race called the Xindi and now Enterprise is set with the task to figure out who the fuck they are. Sounds pretty lame and I was kind of worried that they were going to ruin what I figured was a pretty good addition to the series (though I have determined I am a minority.)

I'm sitting here about to write some brilliant insights while Wyner rolls T-man a "personal" joint... of "tobacco" of course. Just read Rev's journal where he extols the seemingly infinite "rockitude" of the Iliad. Then he said he had no weed, which saddens me, considering we have more than no weed... we have weed. Oh well... the suckitude of living in K-Town when no dealers are there, eh Rev?

Well looks like it's time for my periodic journal update. Not a whole lot of spectacular shit going on in my life right now, but what do you expect? It's the summer! Strange, how when you were younger, everything exciting happened in the summer because school was a pretty big drag (up until the later years of high school were I actually learned some things mildly interesting.) Now, I can't wait to go back. It's kind of funny, actually. I believe I was conversing with Colin and for some reason forgot that we had the month of August (a common mistake, I assure you) and mentioned something along the lines of:

Hmmm... today was mighty uneventful. Well, not completely. I had my father (the lawyer) look over my contract with Digital Ideas, Inc. today to see if it was nice and kosher. It was except for a few paragraphs which I promptly changed and fired back to Wayne. Other than that, I did about two point five hours of programming, fired that off to David and that essentially highlights my day... or does it?

Well I'm pretty tired but I want to record my thoughts with respect to my first real job (i.e. job were my work is actually pretty important.) Yesterday afternoon I drove out to London, Ontario to meet my summer employer Wayne. I was really quite sure what they did but after receiving a three hour product tour, I was pretty familiar with what it was and who would buy it. They've actually done some pretty neat stuff with it.