Event of the day

What a game this was! After a decade of homefield advantage, the Beavers defeated the Ducks at Autzen.
The Beavers dominated in most categories the entire game, but the score was tied near the end when both teams had chances to close out the game by kicking field goals. Some crappy penalties gave the Ducks more chances than they deserved, but thank the stars they couldn't make it happen.
In the 2nd OT, the beavers scored a TD and were able to hold the ducks on a 4th and 1 to obtain victory!

It's a great day to be a Beaver!

Today is the day I found out that I have a parasite! Apparently picked up in Thailand. Actually, I have both a parasite and a bacterial infection in my intestines. So that's fun. I had been experiencing periodic pain in my stomach (gastrointestinal distress) so I went to the doctor earlier in the week to have it checked out.
The parasite is Blastocystis Hominis (wikipedia entry), "an intestinal microscopic parasite". The bacteria is called Campiobacter, and is "among the most common bacterial infections of humans" (wikipedia, webmd).
Fortunately both are apparently curable with antibiotics, and so I am now taking Metronidazole for the parasite, and Doxycycline for the bacteria.

After helping him with a simple matlab question, he said:
"Thanks Levi, you're Awesome."

Since compliments from Toshi are so few and far between, I wanted to be sure to document this.

Thanks Toshi, I think you're Awesome too.

Josea Busby (LONG time friend from AK) crashed at my house. She came with her boyfriend Roger (tres cool guy from S. Africa) and their friend Pete (Canadian I think). We sat around and caught up on various goings on in our lives and rehashing old memories. I cracked open a $9 12-oz beer (no typo: Dogfish Head World Wide Stout, >18%) and passed it around for all to try. I had purchased mostly just to see what a $9 beer tasted like, sorta expecting it to be too strong or too rich or something, but it ended up being pretty good.
After a bit, other friends from around town showed up and we all watched FlashDance, which in my opinion is just a bad 80's romance bordering on soft-porn. It makes Dirty Dancing look tame and has a far shallower plot. At the very least it's a good laugh.
After the movie I get them set up to sleep and we all passed out.

At approximately 1:00 am, Peter (my former roommate) called and woke me. He was calling from the drunk "tank" (more properly detox), because apparently the officers had told him that he couldn't call a cell phone. Anyway, being the only land line phone number he could think of (besides his parents), he called me. I considered it quite an honor. I'd always hoped that I would be someone that my friends would use their "once phone call" to call, but now it had come true.
At any rate, the story behind his reason for being there is also interesting, but not really a part of my day. Suffice to say that it had to do with Peter (who is known for not taking crap from cops) and some officers on a power trip. In many ways, he's lucky that he didn't get arrested (being taken to the "tank" is different than being arrested apparently... something I did not know). Another unfortunate outcome of this event is that Kara (probably the nicest, most tolerant, and caring person I have ever known... and Peter's girlfriend) is now very upset with police officers in general. Though I'm sure she will overcome her over-generalized low opinion of police officers, it is unfortunate that this event has skewed Kara's opinion.