Chip's Spynotebook

Grandparents
Charles
Allison
John
Kate

Well, as of this morning, i have not been outside for an entire week. I know that many people probably do this sort of thing on a regular basis, but not me. I was always impressed with myself if I made it through the afternoon without going outside.

I spent the morning obsessively redesigning the site again and downloading 197 messages from my old chip at mindspring address. All but 6 were spam and those that weren’t were either meant for another chip, bills from mindspring, or a Dilbert newsletter. Someday I will have to let go of the Mindspring account but I still feel like keeping it if only because I am Customer # 52 out of some crazy big number now.

Charles and his lovely wife Allison stopped by after lunch to visit for a while. They have been up at Lake George in New York. Lori is in Hilton Head with Jeff. Susan and Wade are on their way up north. Hannah is in Chicago. Mom has gone to a movie. I remain happily in bed listening to Huey Lewis streaming off the web.

A screw fell out of one of my crutches on the way down the hallway. Coincedence? Perhaps. But, if something happens to me and it appears to be an accident, y’all just check and be sure Susan is really gone with Wade and not hiding out setting traps. We love each other and all of that but have been out to get one another ever since the Incident .

Kate and John are bringing me some supper and watching G vs E tonight. Gosh darn good show. I believe they are bringing me Grit.I have recently realized that I am looking for a roomie starting next month. Wanna live with me? $325 plus 1/2 utils in a cool house. If you provide the NIC, you get free net access plus your own athenstown.com email address. It’s a hard to beat deal!

So, while I sit here fretting about my leg and all of that Wendy sends me a link to the Deathclock. Yeah, that’ll keep my mind on getting better. It says I will die on August 29. 2044. I guess that gives me enough time to finish up some things.

Kate and John brought over some Grit Staple for me and we watched G vs.E and Movie Stars. Tomorrow I have a doctors appt. to get the staples out of my leg so I am pretty psyched. I forget to mention that Ali brought me a copy of The Truth About Fonzie ,a book by Peggy Herz.

I’ll let y’all know when I find out what it is.

I just chatted with Bonnie out in LA using AIM. She told me that her and Ethan Crane of Passions did a karaoke of Endless Love. If only that could have been Theresa….

Lori
Grandparents
Cash
Amanda

The big news of the day is …. well…. OK, there is no big news. Nothing happens when you are stuck in bed all day. I did use the fancy-shmancy shower bench thingie which I highly recomend to those of you too tired to actually stand in the shower. Lori cooked us lunch and found out that my 10 year high school reunion is the same weekend as Tory’s wedding in Mystic. No real contest. Which do *you* think I should choose? Email me with your vote.

Cash came over and we chatted and watched “Sneakers”. Then Amanda came over. I remain in bed.

Mac the dog is spending the night and almost ate Cash when he came in. I did finally get Photoshop so that is cool.

The Cable Guy
Stephanie
Kate
Ron
Cash

The big news on Friday is the installation of digital cable. This is the closest to DirecTV that I could get over here. A boy can only go so long without ZDTV and BBCAmerica.

We are currently taking applications for those who get to “check on me” next week while Mom is off at school. The slots fill up fast so get yours in soon!

The day ended geekily with Ron and Cash and ZDTV.

Next week we will announce a special service called “Spend The Day in Bed With Chip”. Stay tuned.

Grandparents
Kate
Stephanie
Susan
Ron
Maureen
Cash
Susan

Chip gives alt.tv.passions an earfull about recent events in the Sheridan Crane storyline and talks at length about Timmy, the living doll during the wee morning hours. Susan and Kate came over a little later for the daily Passions dose.

In the online world, Madie drew Chip a pic and FTP’d her new Tennybop page to its new Athenstown home. Why wasn’t I that talented in 9th grade?

Ron, Maureen, and Stephanie visit in the late evening and wacky hijinks never really ensued. Oh well. Whatcha gonna do?

Kate
Hannah
Lynette
Courtney
Stephanie
John
Kate

ITEM! CHIP GETS HAIRCUT
ATHENS, GA. — A casual mention about the length of his hair launches the family into action to nip the fashion emergency in the bud. After much debate it is decided that Lynette will be driven over to help the poor boy out. Hours earlier, Chip’s mother hair had been cut by Terry, but NOT AT HOME. At this time, it is undetermined if the two events were at all related. Those present to the event included Susan, Worth, and Charlotte McDougald of Athens and Hannah Knudsen who had merely come over to have Chip help her do the first known video encoder install from bed.