So Katie’s mom calls me to fix her computer. Apparantly it has been extremely noisy. I went over there and decided that the fan on the power supply was about dead. I actually opened up the power supply to show that I could not remove the fan from it since the wires were solidered directly to the power supply board.

This being a nasty proprietary computer to remove the power supply I had to unscrew like 8 million screws and tear off lots of plastic parts to get at the hard drive that was fenced off and had a power plug in it.

Because of this it took me longer than 2 minuites and Mary (Katie’s mom) decided she needed to leave, and since Katie was conveniently there she just left us there. Well at this point I could not do anything more to the computer without getting a new power supply which was cheeper to order online.

So Katie suggested that we go down to State Street and hang out. Well she’s cute and all and I was not doing anything so I said yes. I guess it’s been a long time since I have had a girlfriend and I forgot how much they like to just browse around in stupid stores at clothes and other odd things that they aren’t planning to buy.

At one point we stopped to get ice cream, and while we were eating it we discovered that across the street there was some bag shop that had a HUGE backpack sitting outside. Well not one to miss an opportunity I convince Katie to try the backpack on. She is really short, and the bag was really big. I did manage to get a picture to illustrate this. Probably should have taken it a bit lower so that you could really see the full body comparison of bag to girl ratio, but take what you can get.

After a lot more standing around in stores Katie eventually decided she had tortured me enough for one day and we left.

Well since it is well known that I have a fairly extensive music library she convinced me to make her some comp cd’s. I didn’t mind this, as it was an excuse to impress another person with my nifty new cd burner that can burn images direcly into the top of cd’s.

Most of her music choices were good, I did manage to prevent her from putting Brittney Spears on, but could not prevent her from putting 3 Christina Aguilera songs on.

Here was the result:
(mostly) Katie’s Choice
01 [Black Eyed Peas] Let’s Get It Started (Spike Mix)
02 [Avril Lavigne] Complicated
03 [Pink] Just Like A Pill
04 [Black Eyed Peas] Get The Party Started
05 [Nine Inch Nails] Closer
06 [Cornershop] Brimful Of Asha
07 [Christina Aguilera] Can’t Hold Us Down
08 [Phantom Planet] California
09 [Richard Cheese] Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-a-Lot)
10 [Cake] Short Skirt, Long Jacket
11 [Christina Agulara] Beautiful
12 [Black Eyed Peas] Where Is The Love
13 [Stroke 9] Little Black Backpack
14 [Michelle Branch] Everywhere
15 [Evanescence] Bring Me To Life (Original)
16 [Christina Aguilera] Dirrty
17 [Eminem] Stan (Feat. Dido)
18 [The Killers] Somebody Told Me
19 [Eminem] Lose Yourself
99 [Vertical Horizon] Best I Ever Had

When all was said and done apparantly the second Eminem song and the vertical Horizon song didn’t actually fit on the disk, though I suppose if there weren’t 3 christina songs that wouldn’t be a problem!

I guess today was not so bad. Though I will say it is frustrating spending time with girls that you know in advance that nothing will happen. I mean the whole “being friends” with a girl thing is a very hard concept for a guy to handle. I would never want to date Katie again, but that doesn’t mean I can hang around with her without wanting to fool around. Oh well, another life lesson learned .