I'm excited. I can't wait until we get to Chicago. We are going to the Field Museum this weekend to see the King Tut exhibit. It's the closest I'll prolly ever get to Egypt so I'm totally wired. I wanted to be an Egyptologist when I was a kid. I can even read some heiroglyphs. I know quite a few of the ancient Egyptian myths about Isis, Osiris, Horus and the rest. So, let's just leave it at that I'm very excited.

On a down note, Wye Supply closed. Wye supply was an old-time general store. I remember years ago skipping school and some friends took me there for the first time. The old dude who owned the store stocked all types of cast iron pots, pans, and stuff I wasn't sure what it was. He had tin stoves and carried seed in bulk and just had a bit of everything. A few years back the original building burned and they moved over to a building next to the old one. I didn't realize they had closed till mom said something about it the other day. She said the old man had died so she didn't know if the store was still open so I went by to check. It's closed. I was very disappointed. You don't find stores like that anymore. Sad even. Like when our drive in closed down a few years ago. The old lady who ran it died and her daughter didn't want to mess with it and sold it. I like some of the changes that have happened in my lifetime. Like computers and the internet, but the loss of things like the drive in and Wye Supply sucks.

Nobody anywhere is safe. Absolutely nobody. Today a milk man stormed a one room schoolhouse in Amish country in PA and killed 3 girls and himself. This blows my mind. I know that there are people that should be taken out of the gene pool. This guy was one of them. He had a wife and kids and he went to a one room Amish school, let out all the boys and some women and killed 3 girls and himself. Apparently all this was over an incident that happened when this guy was a kid. Now look, I've had some horrible stuff happen to me when I was a kid. When my family moved here when I was in 5th grade, the kids hated me. I was too smart and they didn't understand my mindset at all. So they persecuted me. For 2 years. On a daily basis I was called stupid, fat, ugly, and "goon". And to top it off, the principal of the school, Sister Virginia (yes, I was a catholic school girl), told me it was all my fault for not being friendly enough. I had no close friends for 2 years. I was harassed on a daily basis for 2 years. I felt lucky if I managed to get home without having had a spitwad or food thrown in my hair. Yes, I've considered murder. And yes, I hated all those kids for a very long time. Would I actually kill somebody over all that? Nope. Why? Because that's one of those things you just don't do. I will admit I'm not the sanest person you might meet. In fact, I'm nuttier than a fruitcake most of the time. But I don't hurt people because that's WRONG. I've never hurt anybody on purpose. I will defend myself if necessary, but I have never set out to hurt anyone either physically or emotionally. I really think that the human race might be inherently insane.

Well, went to the first party I've been to in ages Saturday night. Was kind of nice to get out for a change. I'm going to have to make an effort to get out more often.

I am advanced into my crafting of a generator based on the Wood 103. I have the shell of my stator in the process of being made, and I almost have the core with the magnets done. I'm doing mine a bit differently because for one I don't have the wood working skills that the authors of the article do and two I intend to hook it up to my bicycle instead of making it into a wind genny. My friend NTL from the otherpower.com discussion boards was up a couple of weeks ago and I have to say that without his positive attitude about it I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have. He's a whiz with wind gennys and a very supportive person.

Went to a nice little party tonight. It was thrown by new friends Michael and Jeff. Nina went too and brought her friend Katie. They had a wonderful time but we got Katie back a little later than we had planned so I hope she didn't get into trouble. We also went to a graveyard this afternoon. Hurricane cemetery. Dunno why it's called Hurricane as we are landlocked. Got some nice pics tho. Lots of the headstones (the legible ones) are from the 1800s. I have a picture of one that has a misspelling on it and a pic of one that the guy was in the Illinois militia and he died in 1863 and that was civil war era. A very busy day for all of us.