Judy called me from New Mexico - a nice surprise. She asked me right off the bat something she just couldn't think of but knew perfectly well. I told her, and she said she'd always had me finish her sentences for her when she forgot something - ha ha! I only vaguely remember that. She told me she'd never seen the new school, which was mind-blowing as it was built 10 years ago. I knew she'd left before it was finished, but assumed she'd done a drive-by on an Oly visit since her son lives here. But no. She has never met Tiff, either. The new school was built after the flood wiped it out in er... '96. After the flood Judy and I held classes in part of the State Capital Museum and she had the children write and draw about what had happened. Ginger wrote, "The flood was horrible, but cool." It was, it's very true. We were in the school at St. Placid Priory for ages. I hated that place. I spent a lot of time there at night alone doing work for the school , and its reputation for being haunted by old nuns never seemed far off the mark. The new school was pushed through in record time as a BIA pilot program, and we moved into it in '98. Maybe it was '99 when Thomas died - he was a former student and that hit me very hard. It's just wrong to see a boy in his coffin and think, "He's grown." :( I have his photo in a frame on my refrigerator.

Tiff arrived just then. Although she said, "No, it's ok, it's ok," I hung up and went to hang with her. I had questions about what REALLY happened in the episode of Jeff and Brad and the puppet show in the men's room in Brazil. She said she never found out the truth but it just COULDN'T be the way it sounded. Ha ha! She cooked me food then we looked at Juanita, the mummy, who languishes in the museum in Arequipa, Peru and is the jumping-off point for her first children's book. She told me Jeff is going on another trip with her and Brad - now where was that too... hmmm. I misremember.

Then I went into SL and met with Salazar in his office at the steamworks. He has a spot for the GBC that just needs to be... uh... concocted. I've finally got it down to how it seems to work all right for the machinima, I think. Well, it didn't take once I actually started thinking about it. I remade the 640x480 spots for the ones that hadn't been chucked already, then I threw away, between the video and the 99 versions of robot frames, about 30 gigs. I went to Paris 1900 and skated around, then jumped off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute - only to rise quickly up, up, up. That was teh strange.

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