I'm in the process of porting all my old journals over to this Movable Type setup. It's a long process; there are hundreds of entries. I've tried to keep various journals from time to time in various formats, finally I'm going to concatinate them all. But as of right now I'm only back to February of 2001. The period from April of 1998 to July of 1999 I basically wrote an entry every day, so I've got a long way to go. Stay tuned.

Richard threw an enormous beer party at our apartment last night. He didn't put Nina or I on the invite email, so we didn't know about it until a couple of days ago. He mentioned to me that he was going to have "German night" at our house, but I figured that meant that he would make some saurkraut or something for a few guests. Anyway, Nina got clued in that this might be something more than a dinner party when she got invited to the party by an acquaintance at work who had heard from someone she didn't know.

It ended up with over 60 people crammed into our living room, the back deck, the hot tub, and my bedroom. It was far too many people. Apparently the email said "bring beer or sausage" and no one brought sausage. So this morning when we went down to survey the damage, there were six packs of beer bottles everywhere. I think I counted over 400 empty bottles and 75 unopened ones.

Having a party is a great way to stock your house with beer if you need to do so. It's a shame I don't drink beer, because there is a metric buttload of it here now. There's also a good quantity of it on the floor. I hope Richard plans to mop.