MIT - I'm there now, or here, to be more specific - I guess if you're not here then I'm there. Mom and I got bumped to first class on both legs of the trip out here, which was completely richous. We got in at around 7PM yesterday, took a cab to the place where my mom is staying, then I ran over to MIT to figure out housing. I got keys to a room then went back to get my stuff and bring it over, but ended up staying where my mom was because it started raining. Today, I came over, got my MIT ID and a bunch of papers, moved my bags - except for the mess of organized wires - then ate dinner w/ my pre-orientation group. Pretty busy, pretty crazy. I am now sitting in my room surrounded by 8 bags, 5 of which are not mine, waiting for the ghost roommate to show up. This room is apparently only temp, and things will probably change Again in two weeks. Oh - and there's a stuffed fake penguin on the other bed which is kinda freakin me out..... so, what's on the tele then?

Ok, so - I've got something like 16 hours left to pack. Time to get started. Things have been pretty exciting recently; I've been mini-golfing, hanging out with friends at Boca, walking through the train sheds, watching movies, bowling, camping at Stampede - all in the last four days.

I saw Robin Williams and his son today in the Longs parking lot. I pointed out this Mercedes to my dad with some nice road bikes on it, and what do you know, Robin Williams came walking back to the car. My dad tried to strike up a conversation but he didn't really want to talk too much - probably he's sick of people knowing who he is even when he's here, next to the middle of nowhere. He had four bikes on the back, three road bikes and one mountain bike - all with different types of clipless pedals - strange they're not all of the same type of pedal if you ask me. It seems like most people have a favorite pair of biking shoes and stick those types of clips on all of their bikes. Who knows. I also saw Edgar today - YO ED! E-mail me! Anyway, I'm now going to go off and wipe the foot or so layer of ...um.....stuff off of my desk here at my dad's house into a box and decide what I should bring. I plan on only taking a backpack and a small duffel tomorrow, but packing several boxes to be mailed out later on. Not everyday you see some name actor - a few years ago Tom Green apparently went through the rental shop at Northstar while I was working there. I was handing out boots, and no one else thought they gave him boots - so, being in a daze, I must have given him his boots - why is this something to brag about, who knows.

I retired today - my last day at Lake Tahoe Online was today. I plan on buying a vacation home in Barbados or Guam and live on the beach drinking lemonade and eating sushi all day long. Too bad I leave for cold, grey Mass in 6, 5 days now.... oh well. I got a real cool case/binder thing for DVDs a couple days ago. I'm into watching movies again just because of this stupid cool case. I want to write more, and it seems like I should, but I don't really have much to say; so, that's all for now - ta ta

Hey, so my dad got me an iSight in hopes that he could video conference with me at MIT. It's really cool, much better quality than I expected.


I've added the quotes to the top of Bavetta.com again and have been playing around trying to get it so that you can add a quote for everyone to see. Right now the goal is to have it load one of the old quotes, load the bottom page - then load the quote or comment that the last person left at the top of the page. It only kind of works. Oh well. Also, anyone should be able to add comments to any of the posts here (exciting, huh?). So, if I happen to accidently say something thought provoking, you can tell me to stop. I leave for Boston on the 16th - T minus 14 days and counting....

The MIT housing lottery now declares me a temporary resident of 3rd East - East Campus Dorm. Cool.

So, first off, I locked my keys in the car at around noon in the Albertsons' parking lot but was able to get in because the tailgate was unlocked. Later on, I drove down to Reno to see a couple movies (Johnny English and Bad Boys 2) with Doug, Baker and Dick. When it was over, we walked to the parking garage (I found that I had left my driver's side window wide open the entire time with all the expensive junk that I've got in the car) and drove out seperate cars out the gate. I was last in line and when I reached the parking guy I realized that I didn't have my parking ticket thingie, but I did have a movie ticket - shouldn't be a problem though, eh? They let you go for free if you see a movie - nope, big problem. "What we're going to need to do is see your registration and some ID." Well....as of a few days ago, I don't know where my wallet is, so I have no ID. Hmmm.... I have my fishing license? Ok - he took that and wrote down the info that's on that orange card but wanted to charge me $10. I didn't like that, so I went back into the movie theatre and looked under my seat for the ticket. I couldn't find it so I went back to the guy, told him I gave up and started to drive away when I realized that it was my pocket - jeez! Where was it before! Anyway, I jump out, lock the door and walk down the block back to the parking dude. He gave me the money back but wanted to keep $1.50 because it was so long after the movie ended...hmph. Oh well, I walked back to my car and realize that my keys are sitting in the ignition. great. Luckly I had my phone, and after a series of calls to my parents and communication with AAA, someone came out in 45 min or so to unlock the door. He didn't want to unlock the door, though, because I didn't have any ID, but he eventualy did it and I was finnaly on the way back home nearing midnight.

As a side note, if you happen to search Google for, "The best webpage in the world," a section of Bavetta.com comes up, second only to "The best webpage in the Universe"

Hey. So, it's been a while. July 4th was pretty cool. I went down to the Westend Beach and saw the fireworks, which were pretty awesome. One of the fireworks didn't make it off the ground before exploding, but no one got hurt. Here are some pictures of the fireworks.

I changed my alternator today.

The Sacramento warped tour date was on Sunday. We (Katelyn, Lauren, Wix and I) left at around 6AM, got lost once on the way, and arrived at just about the perfect time. After waiting in line for a little while we got in and saw The Ataris first from the pit - wow, these people get into it. After that I saw parts of Andrew WK, The Mad Caddies, Rancid, Less Than Jake, The Dropkick Murphies, Sum 41 and Pennywise. I think that Less than Jake's set was the best, followed those by The Mad Caddies and Pennywise. Here are some pictures of the event, and one of the alternator.