March 17, 2004 - Today was pretty exciting for me.The work day was not that exciting, other than lunch time, when a large group went bowling. It used to be tradition to go bowling once a week, but that became less appealing than staying at work and playing basketball or going out and playing disc golf. The reason for bowling today was the lab co-op party. I matched up against Carl Wetterhan and his wife on a lane. There were many other people from work bowling with us. My average was 128 over two games, with the range only from 126 to 130. After work, the excitement picked back up. I went to my house, got some stuff, and moved it to my apartment. With the drill and drill bits that I remembered to bring to my apartment, I hung up my paper-towel holder on the wall with no problems. I went down to the basement to hook up the hoses to my washer and saw that there was a pipe sitting there, ready for me to grab and hook up to the gas dryer. Unfortunately, it was the wrong type of pipe, so it didn't hook up. Another problem sprang up when water started leaking from one of the hoses on the washing machine. Since I had to go out and pay for my soccer team's registration, I stopped at Lowe's on the way back to my apartment and picked up a gas pipe that is actually designed for gas dryers, along with a new set of hoses for the washing machine. I was pretty frustrated when I got back to the apartment and discovered that the gas pipe was about 3 inches too short. The washing machine hoses worked out rather well, though. Since I was so anxious to get the dryer going, I drove to Home Depot, which had much better selection of pipe lengths for the gas dryer. I got one that was twice as long as the Lowe's one, and returned home. The hook-up was a breeze and in minutes I had a gas dryer running with my clothes getted dried off. I felt like today was a super handy day. To celebrate St. Patricks Day, I drove over to Matt Dragovich's apartment where a party was already in full force. I was the oldest person at the party, but only by a year. The most memorable moment of the party was the 11 second keg stand by a random person, followed by him going straight to the sink to throw up. I returned home and went to bed.