November 2, 1996 Today, Jerry and I went to the pirate CD and CDROM market...imagine...if you can hundreds of vendors lining up to sell you any computer program you could imagine for between 6 and 20 dollars. I picked up a copy of Oracle 7.2 (a database) and a CD full of office programs for macs (including a few russian ones...i think i got a spell checker or two (in russian, that is) The most exotic thing I saw was a CD of software for the Commodore Amiga....I would have purchased it for my friend dave, but it was $40 and I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a CD-ROM on his amiga. the only bad thing about the whole experience was that we thought that there was a computer hardware market....and we were unable to find it...although we did see tons of people entering the metro with VCRs and microwaves. After the market, it was back to the dorm, where we found liz and leslie and shiloh and jocelyn recovering from the previous night's festivities. Apparently, Liz fell UP the stairs in the metro while trying to stumble home and got a nasty gash on the knee. At some point, leslie decided that she wanted to brave the snow (it was snowing heavily, but none of it was sticking..) and go to the american bar and grill for dinner. Somehow, I got roped into going...then again, so did everybody else in the room. I've been to the american bar and grill twice before. Both times it was quite good....This time I had a bannana shake and a medium-rare burger with salsa and guacamole. The shake was about the 2nd best milkshake I have EVER had.....the burger was not so wonderful....it was HUGE...to huge to eat with my hands, in fact, and it was _RAW_ in the middle....I don't mean pink...i mean cold. Ordinarily, I like my meat on the rare side, but this was a bit silly. Aside from that, it was a lazy saturday evening...I spent a couple of hours working on my Request Tracker program.....you kids at utopia can look forward to a newer version of the web interface soon. jesse