Ok Dennis Tito is my personal hero. I hope his trip is worth every one of the 2 billion pennies he paid for it. Fly on, Dennis.

Today was the EMS "club sale" where anyone who belongs to an outdoors club gets 25% off everything in the store. I used this opportunity to get myself a new hiking backpack. The month of backpacking through Europe I did back in 1999 pretty much killed my last pack. And this summer I intend to do a lot more hiking and camping (to make up for the climbing and caving, which I will be doing a lot less of).

My new backpack is great. It's huge, has a hydration bladder, holds the entire contents of my apartment and the local zoo, and feels so comfortable. I just want to wear it around everywhere. Joy to the me, the backpack is green.

Last night I hit the Unlockedgroove party at the VFW which was so-so (it turns out that course 4 and course 11 throw really lame parties; but they hire great DJs!) and then went on to North Annex. Now I've heard of North Annex a lot lately, but I didn't realize that I know everyone who lives there and furthermore that it's about two blocks from my house. How odd. Good party. Ended up watching anime with a woman from Harvard until after the sun was well up. Anime is so bad.