jamin on October 31st, 2002

Happy Halloween, All! The Blues beat the Predators last night 7-0, so we all get 35 cent tacos today. In other news, I’m having a few people over tonight for Halloween. Wear a costume if you want. I don’t have one, though. Join us! We can eat tacos and [...]

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jamin on October 30th, 2002

Friday night, Ryan and Annie, Amy and I, met a bunch of friends at a restaurant for a combination going-away party for Mary Ellen and birthday party for Amy. We had a long wait to get seated but other than that we had a lot of fun. Amy and I headed back to [...]

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jamin on October 23rd, 2002

A fellow from the U.K. suggested this one to me. It was actually his birthday when he tried it, but in theory it could work even if it’s not your birthday.
“Take birthday cards to pub, place on bar, receive free beer.”
Thanks, MikeGTN, for the tip!

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jamin on October 23rd, 2002

As most of you should know by now, Saturday is the big night.
We’ll be having the Grand Opening of the Bar which is still nameless–sendname suggestions. We’ll be continuing to celebrate Amy’s 25th birthdayfrom the night before. We’ll be seeing Ben and Lori from out of town. Andwe’ll be watching Jackass, the [...]

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jamin on October 21st, 2002

Lori writes: The Beaver’s Nest? You know since you guys are pimps and all.

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jamin on October 21st, 2002

Saturday will be the Grand Opening of the bar and we need a name. There’s the old standby:
Blokes.
Any other ideas? Come up with as many names as you can and we’ll put it to a vote.

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jamin on October 21st, 2002

Friday night, Amy and I went to Six Flags with Ryan and his new prospect, Annie. It ended up raining a lot but we still had a good time.
Saturday, Ryan and I worked on the bar. We got the thing assembled and applied two coats of stain. Now all that remains is [...]

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jamin on October 21st, 2002

A few years ago, my friend Adam wrote an awk script to parse UNIX mbox mail files and report new mail. The script has been very helpful to me and I’ve been using it for ages, particularly at work where I have it running automatically every 90 seconds to show me in which folders [...]

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jamin on October 15th, 2002

Anonymous writes: As we should all be aware Drunken Movie night is only 10 days away. It is bound to be a good time so don’t make any plans on Saturday night October 26th for the opening weekend of Jackass the Movie. There will be pre and post drinking for this movie (just [...]

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jamin on October 7th, 2002

Well this weekend was a weekend of firsts. I did a couple things I should have done in highschool but never did. Friday night I went to my first homecoming. Also, I’m ashamed to admit, it was the first time I’d ever been to a football game. We didn’t have a [...]

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