Wednesday, October 24, 2001

I can forget all of my housing troubles for a day because tomorrow I’m making a trip to watch my computer God speak. That’s right yours truly has a ticket to watch Bill Gates on the big screen downtown. This will be the largest collection of geeks (just shy of a Star Trek convention) that Chicago has seen in a while and I just don’t care. I like the hype and everything that goes along with it. I’m hoping to get in on some of the free giveaways but more importantly I have to watch the launch event. I’ve been to every one since windows 3.0 and I see no reason to stop now. The only thing that could top this for me would be a trip to watch some of my favorite Tech TV shows being taped. But if I ever manage to drag my family to San Francisco I’m going to have to ditch them for a complete day. This is the geeks ESPN and I could watch it 24/7. Just know that for three short hours tomorrow I will be extremely happy. To show just how pathetic I felt the first two years going alone, I dragged Sammy to the last one and he is meeting me over there tomorrow as well. George is the latest recruit and he and I will be on the geek train headed down in the morning. I need to get enough recruits to spell Microsoft on our bellys but I think that will take a few releases. Gotta go lube up the propeller on my special hat. Hey if I come down from my Gates high tomorrow-I’ll let you know about toilet tweaking. 12:00:00 AM    says you