05:12:46 Thursday May 20 2004
I didn't accomplish much today. I got up late and went in to work. I dropped a copy of MSFT Visual Studio .net off with Chris. As much as I dislike working in Microsoft land it is for a good cause. Professor Simonsen is finally pushing for a big open source release of our project. She would like for her fellow statisticians and biologists to be able to make use of it. That means a simple Windows GUI and I am happy to oblige.

After coming into work late I ducked out early and met up with Terry, Lita, and Lehmann. We drove down to Castleton to hang out with Yost and a couple of his friends (who's names I have already forgotten). We cooked, played Mario Kart, and watched West Wing and Law & Order. Good times were had by all.

When I returned to das Haus I discovered that Matt had gone on a cleaning spree. Needless to say this was much needed and much appreciated. I joined him and we cleaned until the early hours of the morning.

Incidently I am currently reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. I enjoy it, but I think it would only be interesting to nerds and history buffs. It is rather slow for the first 350 pages or so. Fortunately that is only one third of this enormous tome.