I now have dates attached to my itinerary. The main reason I did this was for malaria med planning purposes. I need to know how much medicine to get. Looks like I will be in malaria land for eight months. Wow. It seems kinda silly, though, since I have a suspicion my plans will change once I get on the scene. It's good to have a plan, though, and this got me thinking seriously about weather conditions, as well as festivals. It looks like I should do pretty well avoiding rainy seasons, and I may even be in SE Asia for the Lunar New Year, where everybody sprays water at everybody. From my research, this sounds like a fun time. I have a massive spreadsheet with dates, visa info, and even budget info for each country, which I plan to add to the How section. I may have a serious bite on my car. A guy called yesterday, and seemed interested. He actually saw the car page on this website. Cool, the internet works! One call in a week is not good, though, so I put an add in the Baltimore Sun. Turns out they screwed it up, though. They did not put the year, or the miles in the add. ARGH! I'm still not too worried, though, as I have four weeks yet.

I think I can get rid of most of my furniture besides the sofa. So I finally bit the bullet and put the sofa on ebay, with no reserve. Maybe I'm crazy, but I just want to get rid of that thing.

I can see that adding journal entries is going to get a bit tedious. In light of this I am going to investigate Movable Type, a program bloggers use. It's all server-side scripts, so I should be able to use it wherever I am. The thing is, every website I've looked at that uses it looks the same, so if it doesn't let me maintain my "artistic freedom" I don't think I'll bother. While I'm on the subject of software, I've started using 1st Page 2000, for HTML editing, which is great so far. It has a spell-checker built in, so no more copying and pasting out of Word. Best of all, it's free.

My mom just bought a new Dell, so I can look forward to working on a nice computer next month, when I am in Indiana. She is getting DSL, so working on this site should not be a problem. It even has Windows XP, which I can't wait to play with! Ah yes, I'm a computer geek and proud of it! I have serious worries about this computer. It seems to be slowly dying, so I will be sure to back up all my data.

Digital cameras kick ass! I don't know why I didn't get one sooner. It's so easy to experiment, since if your shot doesn't turn out, you can just delete it and try again. I hope to post more pictures once my 256 MB compact flash card arrives.