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Monday - November 17, 2003
Campus Watch #3
Two new classics from the campus crime report:
Disorderly Conduct-Fighting (2 Counts)
Two UT students began to argue on the west exterior plaza of the Engineering Science Building as one of the students thought the other student was "looking at him strangely." The student who thought he was being looked at strangely poured a soft-drink on the other student and attempted to remove the other student's eyeglasses. The two students then began to exchange punches and wrestled until the altercation was broken up by an unidentified subject. Occurred on 11-13-03 at 3:26 pm.Public Intoxication/Disorderly Conduct-Fighting in a Public Place
After being ejected from Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for alcohol violations, a non-UT subject became irate and began to fist-fight with a second non-UT subject who had been attempting to help him. The subject was found to be under the influence of an alcoholic beverage to the point he was a physical endangerment to himself. Occurred on 11-15-03 at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday - November 12, 2003
Mystery visitor. Maybe.
One of our grad students asked me yesterday or the day before if the woman who'd been looking for me on Saturday had found me. Huh? A woman was looking for me at work on Saturday? How odd. He was going one way and I another so I didn't pursue the matter.
I ran into the student again today and asked for more information. He said she was probably about 50, with "yellow" hair (he's South American so I'm guessing that actually means blond...but does it mean blond from a bottle?), very pretty, very well dressed, and very American. He said she was holding a printout of an email message from me but he did not see what was in the message. She asked if this was the Petroleum Engineering building. He said it was and asked who she was looking for. She gave him my name and showed him the email message. He confirmed that she was in the right place and that was the last he saw of her. I have no idea who this could be. None. And, why would she be looking for me at work on a Saturday? Heck, just about anyone should know the chances of catching me in my office on a Saturday are slim to none. Over the nearly 18 years I've worked here, I'd guess I've only worked a handful of Saturdays.
The only thing I can think of is that she must've been someone from the old Usenet days who was in town for some sort of conference. She could've been on campus and thought to stop by on the off-chance that I might be around. She didn't leave a note, though, and I haven't heard a word from anyone via email about a trip to Austin. My phone number is unlisted so if she hadn't looked it up on UT's web site ahead of time and didn't have prior phone contact with me, she would've had a tough time finding it.
All very mysterious, eh?
So...hey. If you're the mysterious visitor, please drop me a line. I'm very curious about this whole thing. Hello? Anybody out there? Heh.
Tuesday - November 11, 2003
Veterans Day
It's Veterens Day. The New York Times posted some excerpts from letters home written by soldiers who died in Iraq. I salute all who've served over the years.
Friday - November 7, 2003
Comics and basketball
Sadly, I haven't had much to say lately. I've been a bit under the weather for the last couple of weeks but am finally starting to feel more like my usual self again. So, a couple of things...
I just got caught up on my day by day habit which inspired me to update my favorite comics page. That Chris Muir is a funny guy.
I went to the Lady Horns game last night with Mary Ethel. It's always fun going out with her. It's like I've got a third set of grandparents or something. Anyway, the gals stomped all over a traveling pro team from The Netherlands in a pre-season exhibition game. The visitors had three or four players with odd basketball jersey numbers. I saw a #6, a #8, and a #9. There may have been others. Those jersey numbers just looked so funny. Ah well...