So today was good. I had two meetings at work. Anyway my license still isn't in so I'm not actually doing anything (or getting paid before you guys think what a good deal I've got ). Anyway during the meeting my boss mentioned this to everyone so it was kinda fun the whole meeting just stopped and everyone started talking to me telling me how much it sucked, and to hang in there and stuff lol.

So then I came home and read a bit and took a nap, that was fun. I sleep so well! ....lol it sounds like I'm bragging....I guess I am, but I sleep really well . Anyway then I got online and had a nice chat with several people. Then I decided to get dressed, and I wasn't even planning on getting dressed up...and I guess I didn't really, but I kinda liked how it turned out so I spontaneously decided to go out (Shocking for me, it's not that I'm not spontaneously it's just that it usually takes me at least a good hour to get properly ready).

Anyway I went back to that restaurant where I made the biggest mistake of my life encountered that gorgeous guy last time. I didn't see him this time though . The cute waiter was there but he was serving the other side of the restauarnt so all we did was exchange smiles. (hehee I can't use the expression, "exchange glances" or "exchange pleasantries" or whatever without imaging the people involved physically passing things back and forth. Like something shocking happens so "Oh my gosh did you see that?! Here have a glance", "ohh wow, that was surprising! Here's a glance for you too").

After I finished dinner I DIDN'T get dessert. Instead I decided to go to the cafe' next door (It's all owned by the same person, in fact they share the same bathrooms you can walk down a long corridor in the back to get from one place to other; I didn't even have to go outside). Anyway while I was waiting in line to have my cake (I ate it too) I ran into my friend Brad and his boyfriend Michael. So we all hung out for awhile, it was really nice catching up with them. They were being really adorable and bickering. Plus Brad was getting jealous of some guy he was talking to online (the cafe' has a wireless connection for laptops); it was really cute.

Anyway he introduced me to his other friend, Seth. Who was quite an odd character. Now I know I'm not one to talk , and given the choice between boring, normal people or eccentric, weird people I'll always take the latter. Seth was just kinda...well self-involved. To a laughable extent. Like I was trying really hard to get to know him, and we were talking and he was saying how, "it's such a curse to be so intellectual, I mean I just can't stop thinking about things." I just thought that was a bit of an odd thing to say to someone you barely know. I said, "I bet that makes it difficult to sleep", and he agreed that it did. (Given this statement I just realized that my prior comment about sleeping so well makes me seem ...anyway).

He was nice enough though, and he definitely said one thing that made me feel good. He was asking everyone how old they were, concerned that me might be the oldest, so after I told him my age I asked how old he THOUGHT I was, and he said, "oh about 20". That made me happy. I love it when people think I'm younger than I am. I was very happy when I got ID'd last time I bought alcohol. I guess I shouldn't worry about it, no one ever thinks I'm older than I am, and most of the time people say "late teens" or "about 20" if I ask what they thought. So I guess it's all good...it's just I'm about to turn 23 and I KNOW that's not old, and I'm not saying it is...it's just that literally my entire life (even when I was like a young kid) I've thought, "22 is the perfect age" so I guess I'm just not happy about leaving it behind. Plus I just feel like I should be doing other stuff with my youth. I guess everyone sort of has things in mind that they want to have accomplished by a certain age, and I guess I'm not that far behind, it's just there's alot more I wish I'd accomplished by now. Also I guess it's kinda tough having a birthday in a new city, I don't really have any close friends here, in fact I doubt anyone in the city will even know it's my birthday. Anyway it sounds like I'm whinning about it...and maybe I am...but the whole point is I'm actually feeling much BETTER about it.

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Anyway I'm not very tech savy and I have a few questions I thought some of you folks might be able to answer.

1) If I use the messenger(s) that came with my phone do I pay per message like it's a text message? Or do I pay based on how long I'm online? Or is just some kinda nifty free service? ***hopeful look*** (I know you guys don't know all the details about my phone contract or whatever, but just typically how does it work? I have Cingular BTW)

2) I downloaded Friends and I'd like to burn them onto a disc, but apparently a season is bigger than a disc (and it just seemed annoying to have to have several discs per season). Is there anyway to convert the files to some smaller format or something (Like how an MP3 is so much smaller than a....wmv or whatever it is)? If I do will it still play in a DVD player? Would it anyway?

3) My firewall program (which came with my computer) has suddenly (it never used to before about a month ago) begun blocking Firefox. Not a single website will come up. I can turn it off, and do (gee maybe I shouldn't say that online ), but is there anyway I can just make it recognize Firefox? When that started happening I got Opera, but Opera wouldn't play any videos so I got rid of it. I really prefer Opera or Firefox over I.E. because they use tabbed windows, I can't stand all those windows everywhere.

4) Speaking of tabbed windows, the main thing IMO that AIM had over MSN messenger was tabbed windows (Didn't regular AIM eventually get that? I used to use dead aim way before regular aim ever had it -for that reason- but I thought it eventually got it). Now, however, I seldom use AIM and primarily use MSN. Is there a program or version of it I could get that would have tabbed chat boxes instead of having to have several all over the screen?

5) Also related to # 3, it seems my Opera problem was somehow related to my "java" **shrugs**. I totally don't understand Java, I THINK I'm running the latest version, I went to the website and downloaded what they have, but it still wasn't working. Also I've recently begun going into GA chat again (every now and then), and it keeps kicking me out. Someone suggested it might be a java problem. (....Geez is it any wonder I gave up coffee? )

Anyway I don't want anybody to have to go out of their way to find the answers for me, but if someone already happens to know I'd appreciate it if you told me