Archive for October, 2003
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Apparently I slept poorly last night. my neck has as killer krick in it and I’m generally achy. I’m not the least bit tired though so maybe I just slept too heavy. Either way, I’m paying for it today.
I was really looking forward to the final episode of Joe Schmo Show last night but it was pushed to next week, always next week. Damnit. I made diggity-damn sure to watch last week’s episode on Monday because I forgot to watch it last Tuesday, but then last night they showed the same episode again. So now I have to wait until next week to see if they actually pay him $100,000 for a week’s worth of Television and to be the butt of a huge practical joke.
So what the fuck is up with all these promotional offers to get people on a new service or subscription (i.e.: cable internet, DISH network, cell phone plans, etc.) and not giving a little out to the long time members. I’ve been using my cable internet provider for a long time, and I’ve been with them through good times and bad, outages and slowdowns and disruptions in service. Today I get this flyer in the mail saying if I subscribe to my internet provider, I can get a free xbox live starter kit and two months of service free. What do I get as a long time service subscirber? Another bill. What the fuck is that.
Quiz Time
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
I hate posting Quizes, really I do. Sometimes though, they’re too cool to keep to myself. Other times, the results have been sitting on my desktop for so long, I just need to clean out my files. This is one of the later times.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | Enter your password to view comments.
Tuesday evening: In the lab
Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Well, I didn’t write yesterday to say what a good weekend I had. I just never got myself in the mood to write. I often find that when I want to write in my journal, I either am not, or don’t feel like sitting at the computer. When I’m sitting at the computer, I’m just not in the mood to write. I used to keep my journal on my PDA, but that was really a joke. I was worse at it there than I was on this thing.
I played LotGR on Saturday. Had a great time. Really enjoyed playing in a game with Tim again, I haven’t played with him in years and I forgot how much fun it was. All I could ever remember were the horror stories, but I forgot that I really like Tim and his play style. We had a good time and managed not to die.
Sunday, I did a lot of nothing. It was great.
I’ve been a bad boy. I downloaded iTunes for one of the two PCs I have at work. It’s not the greatest music player/manager I’ve ever used, but it’s not bad. It rips CDs really slowly. So slow that I find myself impatient with it, even though it’s connected to a computer that just sits by my feet and does nothing all day. Maybe it’s just because I’ve had little to do lately so I end up staring at the cd tray waiting for it to eject. Yeah, pathetic.
Heather just informed me that we’re ordering food for dinner tonight on my credit card. I hate doing that, but we’re stretched a little thin so we’re gonna splurge on either pizza or wing zone. I liked the idea of hawaiian BBQ pizza at lunch, but I smelled fries in the hall earlier. Oh the drama!
Damn Boredom and intersting Quizzes
Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | 6 Comments
I took some LJMatch compatability tests. I’d love to see what some of my close, personal friends (i.e.: those I’ve actually met) scored on these.
Friday, October 17th, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
I downloaded and installed iTunes this afternoon and I have to say, not only do I feel corrupted, I actually feel let down. It rips CDs really slow, 4.4x vs. 12+x on MusicMatch. Fortunately it does have the option to rip and eject on CD Insert which is nice since I have a second computer at my feet that I can just do all my ripping on while I’m actually doing work. MusicMatch has been being a bitch lately, so I’m kind of shopping around for something new. I’m back to QCD right now, but MusicMatch just has some features that no one else on the planet has. I’m going to miss those features until I can get together the $60 to actually buy MusicMatch again. My lab staff meeting is in ten minutes, then it’s back to the house for our bi-weekly movie night. I’m excited, I like having people over and being able to share my movies is a really cool excuse to get people over to my house.
I really need to start looking into the whole D&D alternate setting thing again. I still have all my ideas, I just need to get to writing them down again so other people can read them so I can actually start the game so people can come over to the house to play D&D so I can actually be running a game again. Now that I’m pretty sure I won’t have to be running Vampire, I can concentrate back on my D&D game.
Damn, I gotta go pee before this meeting.
Friday, October 17th, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
I had two dreams the night before last (Wednesday night) that I kept meaning to talk a little about. Neither one was necesarilly nightmarish, but I wouldn’t classify either one as a good dream. The first was a work dream. There are a lot of politics about the web page here at work. I’m pretty much the only one who maintains it, but we’re on a temporary web page that’s only up until the “real” web page is finished (the real web page that’s been in progress for over two years). As a result, I don’t put a lot of time or effort into it, it is my lowest priority item, after all. I want to make a new one, even if it’s a new interim page, but I don’t feel that my work would truly be appreciated by the people who need to appreciate it, and I’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, to hold off on making a web page until I’m actually compensated beyond my normal pay. I’m more than willing to agree to this. Eventually, the “real” site will be done. Anyway, I’ve strayed away from the dream thing. I dreamt that another, worse, web page was created and I was forced to put it up in place of our current interim web site and no matter how much I argued, I was not allowed to alter this new one at all. It was not only frustrating, but a slap in the face because not only did they pay yet a third person to create this shitty page, but then they force me to put in in place. Fuck.
Dream two was a car dream. I don’t remember too many details about it, mostly I remember I took my new car and backed it into a pond by accident. From there, there was a lot of running around trying to figure out how to get it out of the pond and on the road because we were on a road trip and had just stopped at my Grandparent’s house for the night.
Oh, and I had another car dream last night too, but damned if I even remember what that one was.
Friday, October 17th, 2003 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Shit, I was all about writing something this morning, now I can’t remember what the hell I was going to write about. I have 2 minutes before the lab opens, I’ll probably remember what I was wanting to write as soon as I don’t have time to write again.
