October 20, 2001

• Rented ‘Memento’ last night. Took it back today. Also watched ‘The Tao Of Steve,’ which was an interesting meditation on gender identity, though not the laff riot I was hoping for.
  
  Earlier today, I got up from the drudgery of programming (it’s actually a joy, but it’s a drudge of a joy, if you know what I mean) to go eat dinner. I put on a hat and a coat, and ventured down the block when I remembered that I needed to return the movies! Doh!
  
  So I walked back and a housemate joked with me about having forgotten something, and said, “I don’t want to see you back here in five minutes, mister!” So I took off the hat and the coat and put on the helmet and the bike jacket (it’s yellow, for to be seen) and went down and got on my bike and turned on the blinky light on my backpack and thought to myself, ‘I really need to adjust this deraillure cable soon,’ and rode off towards the video store, which is approximately 15 blocks away.
  
  And about two blocks from the store, I realized the tapes were still at home. So I went back. And the housemate said, “Ooo, SEVEN minutes!”

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