I’m now on day three of having no internet at home. It sucks. I’ve become very conscious of just how much I use online references and searches without thinking about it. Like, last night Brett and I were playing Scattergories and we hit a snag concerning krugerands — I said they were valuable South African gold coins (which I’m about 70% sure of), but we couldn’t just call up the Wikipedia entry like we usually would. Very frustrating.

So apparently there was a sniper on the loose in Moscow last night. The shootings started about three hours after I was over there; I guess three people were shot, one being a police officer who died. Then, early this morning they found two guys dead inside the church (where they think the sniper was firing from). I stayed up really late watching the news about it. Really bizarre for such a small town.

The SNL season finale was pretty good. Zach Braff was okay; I liked all the Garden State jokes. I thought it was a little odd that they almost didn’t mention Scrubs at all, what with the big cliffhanger finale that just aired on Thursday. Best line from the whole thing: “I hope Rachel Ray opens her own mail.”

Heard a really great interview with Ang Qi Minh (sp?) on NPR last night. She had some fantastic stories about life in communist China and how she escaped to the US. I guess she wrote this book called The Orchid Queen (not sure if I’ve got that title right) that sounded really interesting. I think it’s about the empress who ruled while opium was being introduced to the country in the late 1800s.

Since I have no internet, I’ve been working on this elaborate tower in SketchUp. One of the cool things about it is that it has properly faced internal detail and structure with no clipping problems or anything. Like, once I finish connecting the bottom sections, you’ll be able to walk around in it (with the appropriate SU tool) and climb all the way to the top. The image I’m attaching has some X-ray views so you can see the hidden passageways and rooms. I still have a lot to finish on it.

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