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Budget

From: "Rob Nugen" To: Charles T Subject: numbers Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:08:29 -0500

HI

I make $48,000 per year, and on my last pay stub, I netted $1361.20 out of $2000 gross. $260.80 to SEP, the rest to federal taxes.

I owe $5360 on credit cards.

I haven't worked out a budget, but I'll guess at one now:

per month:

 $760 for rent
  $30 for phone  (cell only, no landline)
  $30 for utilities
 $120 for groceries (estimated)
 $120 for fun (estimated)
  $15? laundry
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$1075

My short term goal includes leaving work next year and travelling to Japan to work.

I apparently need like $5000 cash to get set up over there, but that's without knowing anyone who already lives there. I know some people; I'll continue to research that.

Thanks!

• Rob

Last night

7:22 am Thursday 11 April 2002

Last night I visited Jennifer at Paint This! to drill holes in the soap dish on which I painted Australian, South African, New Zealand flags as a gift to my new friends in London. On the very last hole, when the drill bit finally made it through, the drill rammed all the way down and smashed the dish.

Fuck.

I felt sad, but didn't cry; I looked on the bright side that when I paint it again, I can use a smaller brush and give it better detail. Oh, and this time I'll drill the holes first.

Rode my bike to Dude's where I FTPed some London pictures online. I have renamed all the London pictures, and thumbnailed the first day's pictures. As I write this, I haven't added comments to that directory.

Today = work and then drop off my bike (to get its spoke replaced this weekend while I'm at Plano rally), then munch at The Melting Pot with Charyl et. al. from investment club.

lisa

From: "Rob Nugen" To: Lisa Subject: RE: SF Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:13:11 -0500

The idea of extending SF to train the ears and not just the eyes is quite interesting.

There's a long history in YRUU of Silent Football (long in YRUU terms), and different districts are pretty passionate about their specific variants of the rules, which only slightly deviate from district to district.

In this district, we made up wormholes, and the foot-motions (analogous to hand motions).. These have not spread to other districts yet.

Also in this district, Nick Carter made up Mister Dick Tater and its variants as acceptable names for the dictator. I don't know if that has made it to other districts,

Oh my gosh! We forgot to sing Ants and Cheese for you guys at closing circle!!!!!!!!!! (*)

Ahem, I don't know if the name variants have made it to other districts, and I don't know if other districts made up that rule in parallel, but I do specifically remember being at First Church Austin for the YAC restructuring meeting in 1998(?) when Nick made up the rule.

There has been another game variant designed but never fully played: Silent Moose Balls, where everyone has a color-animal name like Blue Moose or Yellow Robin or Spotted Tiger or Yellow Black Panther, and the dictator is named Farmer Dictator. This game is played only verbally using walkie talkies to describe the actions.

"Roger, Yellow Black Panther, I have received Yellow Black Panther's fwap and I am now zooming to Plaid Platypus..." etc.

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(*) To the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, sung like hillbillys:

Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Ants and Cheese and Ants and Cheese!
Yahoo!!  Yahoo!!!  (firing fake pistols into the sky)

With Love

• Rob!!

-----Original Message----- From: Lisa Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:31 AM To: rob Subject: SF

Hi Rob, Looking forward to hearing about future booboos. I am still sore from Sunday's game, but the goal makes it a sweet kind of soreness. Actually I'm home with wicked intestinal stuff. This year I am working with preschoolers who can pass around a plague in one circle time. I got tagged, and I'm it today. I made it in to an early meeting but quickly realized I wouldn't make it through the day. So I'm home lounging about between the computer and the hammock in the back yard.

Hey, do you ever use IM on AOL, or just tell it to get your email and sign off?

Yes, I use IM. My kids are better at it than me. They'll have 10 conversations going at once. ll put your name on my buddy list and if you're ever on line while I am we can chat, that would be nice.

I have been thinking about SF. It's more interesting now that I've read your journal entries. I think you use it for many purposes, but one is to test what is exceptable, like the worm hole idea. You're right, we had no trouble imagining that. Probably 30 years ago, kids would not have been able to use the idea so readily. Worm holes are supposedly unstable (on Star Trek anyway) I wonder how that can be incorporated into the game. You could also use the game to train other senses. Like playing with eyes closed and having to hear or feel for the moves.

Love and a hug, Lisa