> Feel free to skip this, some of it is kinda boring.

I didn't. It wasn't. :-)

> April 19th, 2000, Wednesday
> Up early, drive over to the DMV; get to be the first people in line. I take my drivers test, pass easily, and I didn't even have to parallel park.

Yay! Congratulations!

>I had picked up from my father's apartment the first two Harry Potter books on tape and listened to all of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and the start of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets before we arrived.

OK, that does it. I'm going out to get some Harry Potter books tomorrow. Practically everybody I know online seems to have read these. I'm obviously missing out on valuable cultural references. Or something. Besides, according to the covers, they look cool. I still think eric must look like Harry Potter.

Brunnen-"or at least, more like Harry Potter than Marge Simpson"G