June 12th, 2004:

Jess and I are going to Fry’s to bring back the webcam that we bought. It doesn’t work in Linux (or Windows, apparently). Then we’re either going to buy another one there or hit up BestBuy (I have a gift certificate from last Christmas that I still haven’t used) to find one.

After that, we’re going to visit some locks South of Dallas made in the early 1900′s by the Army Core of Engineers in a futile attempt to make the Trinity River navigable. Hopefully, we’ll find some interesting photographs there. Apparently, a lot of it is still in tact. Jess has volunteered to be a photographic subject for today. It’s nice to have her because I don’t have to worry about being organized or even pre-planning. If something there looks like it might make a good photograph with her in it, then great. And if not, she’s not upset that she spent the afternoon with me without having a single picture taken of her.

If any of you are interested in photography, or modelling, or history, or nature… or even just a good time… and you’d like to come, give me a call or send a “text message”:http://revjim.net/page/textmessage/. It’ll take us a few hours to get out of the house and finish running our errands. I’d guess we’ll be heading out that way around 1:30pm or 2:00pm.

Yesterday I had an MRI done. All in all, the procedure is quite scary.

You lay down on a table. Your head is placed in a precise position using lasers to line it up. Then, you are inseted into a tunnel where you lay for about 45 minutes while the test progresses. There is a small mirror above your head that you can look into to see out of the tunnel, just to keep you from going insane.

I haven’t decided what the scariest part was. First, the machine makes very loud clicks and bangs very quickly throughout the process. The table shakes and gyrates. There are noises everywhere, and you never know what to expect next. Secondly, the computer that runs the whole thing is running Windows. What if it decide to crash in the middle of my procedure? What would happen to me?

Luckily, everything went well and I’ll have the results sometime next week.