Extortion Update
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Remember that little accident (ok, so it was really two) where I popped a couple of tires and bent rims on my first night in St. Vincent? Well, after coming over and verbally harassing me, the owner demanded 1,000ECD for the damages (around $400US). Yeah, for a rim and a tire. Sensing that somebody wanted to upgrade their ride courtesy of the "rich" medical student, I politely declined, and instead offered to pay a fair replacement value of the tire/rim. This brought more expletives. I guess the guy didn't realize that medical students aren't the rich "cash cows" he thought they were. I will have close to $250,000 in debt plus interest before I am done, and will need 15-20 years to pay it off. I really don't need to be buying some guy a new stereo system or whatever. We agreed to meet tomorrow at a place that sells rims to hammer out a "fair" deal. We'll see how that goes.
In other news, I got cable internet set-up in my house, so there *may* be more frequent updates, but I do have to study sometimes. (Though, one of the Neuroscience professors said that taking breaks occasionally was very important to studying.) 
Out of curiosity, I did one of those bandwidth meter tests, which resulted in the equivalent of a 33.6kps modem worth of throughput. Yee-haw! 
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yeah they say only to work for 20 minutes at a time with 5 minute breaks but i wonder how much you can get done if you keep that kind of schedule