Friday Dec. 3

Currently reading: Cyberterror by R. J. Pineiro

I started reading Cyberterror a couple of days ago; it's fiction, but it gives a scary look at how someone could use the internet to take control of situations and create a terrorist attack pretty much like 911. According to the writer's info provided, Pineiro works at AMD and lives in Austin, so that was one reason I picked up the book . The book begins with a look at San Antonio, the target of the terrorist attack, and I have to admit, that the way the attack is coordinated is a little scary because from I've read so far, such destruction could be created using the method described. So now I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the book to see how (if) the culprits are caught.

Writing Lab
It was a little after 7:00 when I opend the lab, and once I lit up the rooms and opened the doors, people started coming in to use the computers. Although I don't mind letting them come in so early, since I'm here, I've noticed students come to expect the lab open at such time when in reality we're officially opened at 8:00. They get upset if we're not here early enough for them; that's usually because they probably wait until the last minute to work on assignments. If one has something due at 7:45, why wait to do it at 7:00, especially if they want to compose/edit/print out an assignment so early?

At 7:30 a student walked into the lab, and wouldn't you know it, he sits at the computer in the lab closest to mine in the office area. That's nothing wrong with that, but his cologne or his hair gel or something smells, and not very good, so unless I move to another office computer or away from this area, I have to put up with it. I never thought I'd be picky about this in my old age, but I guess old age has its peculiarities.

Birthday
Yesterday was my wife's birthday. Wouldn't you it, we had our Christmas party too, since most students will be leaving soon. So at the party we had tamales, beans, rice and all sort of other goodies. So...
For dinner I took my wife to Fresco's, a New York Style Italian restaurant on 10th Street at the new minicomplex. Needless to say, I could only eat part of my chicker parmiagian and penne pasta, and my wife could only eat part of her chicken umbra, so we ended up taking most of meal home. Since it was cold and raining, we decided to go home instead of going shopping for a flat screen tv.

Well, hope to catch up on my reading this weekend.