So whats everyone doin for halloween? I am doing the same thing ive done for the past several years, nothing at all. I thought about going out to steal the candy of the kids who are too old to be trick or treating. But I doubt I will do that as they will most likely travel in packs and I doubt I could find an accomplis/partner.
Its almost Friday. YAY! last of the Windows XP classes around here for a while. This makes me happy because they are such a pain to setup and unsetup for every damn morning. The instructor is great though so its not as bad, as it could be.
Kala is supposedly in town as of last night sometime but I haven't seen or heard from her... Oh well. She will show up when she wants. Not gonna be getting my hopes and stuff up about spending time with her like last time. I simply don't have the energy for it.
9:33am: Wow work is actualy draging today. This hasn't happened in a while. hmmm. Usualy too busy to have it be this slow but I can't really work on the computers that are in use by students. Well I could but might get in a bit of trouble...
7:41pm: Slow night too. I'm actualy thinkin about an 8ish or 8:30ish bed time to night. pretty sad huh...
Here we are. Another day another dollar. Work to be done, people coming to see, namely Kala. Things to buy, namely new styli(the plural form of stylus?) i for my Clie as mine went missing sometime yesterday.
My list of things to get done at work just seems to be getting longer and longer lately. Some of the stuff I simply cannot do while we have classes. Like prep for other classes or just clean up desks, monitors, keyboards etc... Oh well eventualy i will prolly just tell them I cannot do everything when we have so many classes going on. Not enough time.
And one of my new Bosses wants Chris and I to cross train with eachother. What in the fuck is that shit about. Something goes wrong we call the other. and ask what the hell is going on or we look in binder that documents how shit is setup. new boss is worthless and dumb as a stick too. But i wont get into that now... But im gonna go see about being productive at work.
9:29am: Oh and I got a new CD yesterday. I've had the 1st disc as MP3 for a while and totaly loved it so bought the full set yesterday. Good mellow stuff... Chris said it felt like he was tring to seduce him self when he listened too it. Something about a fireplace too I didnt ask too much cause i am affraid to know what he would to him self...
Yep. Its Tuesday. Kala comes to vist tomorrow so that should make for a fun and more intresting week.
This time change thing we just did still has me a little off. I am used to having the stars and moon out when i get to work. Now the sun is up, at least well on its way up. When i get in to work. So i dont get to look out over a darkened city shining its taffic lights and street lights up at me while cars travers the roads in darkness, and glints of neon glowing on buildings. My mom couldn't be more trilled about the day light in the morning. But i still stand by my old high school saying: morning starts at 11:30am and anything before that is yesterday because its simply too early, even though now days i am lucky to sleep til 10:30 on the weekends as the whole 6am thing has me so used to early mornings...
6:33pm: I've read most of Burning Chrome, Gibson's Short stories, now. I just read the Title Story. I can't get over Gibsons stlye it totaly sucks me in and makes it hard to get out. Great visuals, gritty vivid, and you feel it all and think about it all too. I highly recomend reading any of William Gibsons stuff.
Its Monday.
Yesterday was Sunday.
so um. yay. Did the family thing yesterday. That was ok at best. Considering I have nothing other than blood in common with any of them... I5 between Salem and Eugean was/is gourgous right now. All the oranages, reds, greens, mountains and hills.
8:10am: Today's class ready to go. I droped the keys down the elevator shaft. So I called the facilitys/maintnece people/evelvator etc.. and they sent Bill to get them for me. So the keys are safe again.
Ok what about that extra hour of sleep? I just stayed up til 2 er 1am then went to bed. So i don't know that i actualy got that extra hour. Even though i did go to bed ealier than the time it actualy would have been with out the clock change.... oh well..
I saw Death To Smoochy Last night. Great movie! The cast was great. But knowing Henry Rollins was up for the part of Spinner Dunn and didn't get it just made me wonder how Rollins would have done in that part rather than Michael Rispoli. Ya see Rollins had standup/story time thing on Comedy Central, and he spoke of and told the story of the audtition and how crazy he went in it and how he scared the hell out of Danny DeVito, apperently it was down to Rollins and Rispoli. I don't know that Rollins could play that big of a dumbass.
10:53pm: Crap. I forgot im goin to Eugen today. Grandama's birthday celibration. Oh well I prolly would have just sat at home hacking out scripts and tring to get stuff to work and rebuilding the linux kernel on my laptop. At least i will have something to think about while down there.... Thought about takin my laptop down but that prolly wouldnt be such a great idea......
Chris got him self an HP Vectra yesterday. Its a tiny little computer with all all the trimmings and plenty of power to do most things. Perfect for a Mp3 player for his car. If thats what he decides to do with it. If so i wanna get hold of it and try a linux solution.... I've wanted to do an embeded type project with linux for a while. Granted it wouldnt be truely embeded but close enough for my purposes. Its just a matter of figureing out how to controll it with no screen at the moment. unless i can get chris to build or buy one for it... Controll can be done via keyboard or maybe a remote controll but that would again require Chris to build or buy stuff....
Spent another Friday night at home. I'm really gonna have to do something about that. And no plans for today eather. oh well.
11:43am: oh and i got a hair cut yesterday.
Oh man i dunno if i am gonna be able to eat this morning. After hearing about the a worm boy on the radio. Well a boy that had worms and the cure for this particular type of subdermal worms that have to be suffocated with vasoline and pulled out. so grosss...
Its friday yay. Last day of work. Then sweet sweet weekend of prolly a ton of nothing as Chris will most likely be spending it a) Working b) with Heather c) both A and B... I'm ok with this. Perhaps i will rent a movie or 2. Get my hair cut. Find or fix my watch....
My new phone. When i recive a text message sounds like a door bell. But I have my beloved Bond ring tone back. YAY!!!! ive been several months with out it and its been buggin me... Perhaps i should start doing Technology reviews...
hmmm.. eh prolly not cause I'm too lazy. Not to mention it will cost me even more money as I will be using it as an excuse to buy more toys.
Its Thursday. I feels like a Thursday. Monday didn't feel like a monday so I'm glad that the week has picked up its pace. Got plenty to do at work as usual its just if i decide i want to do a particular task or not. I got lots of bitch work and tech work to keep me busy for a couple of days. But I take it nice and easy so i don't run out of stuff to do.
The last couple of weeks I've had soo little to say. I've been finding my self tring to make an entry a few times then not making one until the 3rd or 4th attempt at it. I feel as if i simply rant to much or blather on about nothing for ever and no one wants to read that. hell i'm doing it again....
6:30pm: My new phone showed up today. Its pretty damn cool. I may not need another phone for a year or so now. I've never managed to use the same phone fore a year. I got close with the 8290. I still have my 6190 around. But this phone takes the cake.
I think today at work will be fairly productive. Got at least one class to setup for maybe 2 so it may mean extra time at work today... I wish I was better at coding/programing I come up with somany fun/cool (well i think) ideas but lack the know how and some tools to accomplish theses things. I'm sure if worked on any one of them long enough i could get them done its just how much time and do i really wanna spend that much time on a trivial thing... Maybe i will see about working a couple of them out. and writing the others down someplace....
Had a dream that i got married spur of the moment to a old best friend from middle/highschool. Its been at least a year since I've even seen Kitri and then we only talked for a few moments. We were really close our 8th grade year and 9th and started to drift apart in prolly 10th grade. But we could always pick up and just start talkin about whatever. We had a pact at some point that once we reached 28 and that if we were still in contact and good terms close etc.. that wed get married if neather of us already had by that point or didnt look like we were... I don't really think the pact stands anymore as we have pretty much lost contact with eachother. nonetheless it was a strange dream.
Baby sat the 11 computers and 3 people last night for work. fun stuff i tell you. I didn't happen to have eather of my new books along or my laptop as i was droped off by chris who picked me up hours later but then went on a call that ran longer than he expected. That kid can not gussitmate time for a damn. hell its rare that hes actualy on time. He has time related issues. Its quite anoying sometimes.
Seems like it should be past tuesday.
8:40am: Three words. Wake On Lan. It is soo damn cool. Standing in a room full of computers that are off one moment then another all clicking in unison as they power up and start humming away. With out being touched. From silence to 17 computers beeping and humming and their floppy drive sounds all at once or near at once. Pretty fun. Its times like this i love my job.
4:30pm: Bought a couple books in Portland at Powells books. I got William Gibsons collection of short stories Burning Chrome Gibson is pretty much the only author I read. Sparks my interest better than anyother so far. I also got Einsteins Dreams but havn't had much of a chance to read it as I have been reading Gibsons short stories.
8:49pm: thinking about talkin to Chris about getting a larger Drive for SallyShears so she can do MollyMillions' Job cause a 300Mhz Laptop just isnt seeming to quite cut it these days. and I could be experimieting with cool shit with molly and Sally is much better suited for the job. bigger faster stronger and nearly as quite.... but i'd lose Sally as a gameserver and her portabliity would be shot.... hmmm...
It's a monday. I work my normal morning again. Then do my babby sit the 10 computers and however many people show up to use them thing...
This laptop is doing strange annoyting things. All related to the power. Well i guess they arn't that strange just annoying. I had it all pluged in and on when i went to bed last night. Woke up it was in hibernation mode and It shouldnt go to hibernation mode unless its on that battery but it it said full charge and didnt move to shake the power connection lose or anything. oh well...
7:52am: I just found out that I am going to be the only one in the office all morning. Kinda cool. Kinda freaky. Now do I rifel through the desk drawers of my CO workers? Re-arange their personal effects? What to do. What to do.
Got home about an hour ago. Went to portland last night. Just to get out of Salem. Stayed with Cat, and Co. Had a pretty good time, Got pizza from Pizza Oasis (good shit)... and just hung out with Cat, and the roomies and talked it was nice.
The train ride both ways was just beautiful.
So its saturday. Had another noneventful friday night. but hey thats ok...
I've been on this pizza kick lately. Its strange but pizza is oh so yummy. maybe its time to resurect one of my old projects... gonna have to wait and see. Maybe I'll change my project around some i dunno yet...
I really dont have much to say today.
Hope you all have a great weekend...
Slept better last night. But i don't think it would take much to beat the 4 hours i got wednesday night. It took its sweet ass time to get here but its friday now. Hopefuly this weekend i can get my self a new watch. Cause i feel so naked with out one and have to reach into my pocket and pull eather my phone or Clie out to see what time it is. Much more active than just glancing at my wrist. I didn't realize how much I used/depended on my watch until yesterday. I've got it down to a few finalist watches i will post links to them then you can help me decide...
7:02am: and the finalist are
I think thats all of them. I'm also taking sugestions/recomendations.
11:50pm: so around 11:30pm i get a call from the friendly folks at customer care at voicestream..ahem T-mobile... and it happens to be one of my friends. November 5th i get a better plan, sometime before then im supposed to be getting a phone upgrade, being the samsung s105, for cheap compared to what it should be.
Its time for me to learn to sleep. Its also time to replace my watch. As it died sometime last night between 2:00am and 6:00am. Now to find a suitable replacement watch. Ever since my Casio remote controll watch i had when i was in the 6th grade I have never owned a watch that was simply a watch. I don't plan on starting again eather. I've found a few canidates but have yet to choose. Perhaps over this weekend....
Couldn't sleep last night. It sucked. So i stayed up and worked on a Database for work.
Well sony droped the price on many of their Clie's again so now i could have gotten a exta spiffy one for the same price or just a little more. I'm so tempted to go and return mine to get an upgrade. But that would take time and convincing of someone to go up to frys. So its prolly not gonna happen. oh well.
anyways. its wednesday. halfway done. I was ready to be done monday. Sleep hasnt been great this week. Work has been alright. No real highlights that stand out as great or even good so far, mostly just ok.
It could still improve tomorrow or later today. I'm hoping it will...
6:05pm: Its never really been gone. you just had to know where to look. Ive posted the link in the comments section before. But now the main/menu link is back. Altair's page that is. It took me like 3 times to get it right cause i kept tring vi commands in MT and well it doesnt work so well. In fact this is my 2nd attempt at this update cause of my pesky habit to hit escape then go for the : and wq which equals save and quit in vi but mt has no such command stuctrue... oh well..
9:10pm:
The sun falls. Moon rises, street lights awake, stars show themselvs. All welcoming me back to and embracing me again. Various light sources casting intercate animated patterns on the ground. Animated by the lights that pass by or the wind that moves the source of the shadow. Stars lit in the heavens and Moon in the sky.
Again i don't have much to say. Its Tuesday, feels like it should be Wensday if not Thrusday...
Its a beatuiful day out.
too bad there isnt anything to do.
but there isnt anyone anything with eather so i guess it works out.
Guess I will go home. take a nap. come back to work.
Then maybe hang out with Chris and do nothing.
I don't have much to say today. I go in to work 3 times today. 2 more left. Supposed to hang out with Cat sometime too. Was asked if i stayed up all night cause i looked tired at work, i didn't. I thought i slept good but i guess i didn't sleep as well as i thought if i am looking tired..
mondays...
7:40pm: 20 min or work left. YAY. then its coffee with Chris. Then home. Then sleep. maybe. hopefuly. i dunno...
long day.
i hope that doesnt mean a long week..
9:30pm: I am a baby sitter for 2 hours on monday nights. I babysit a room of computers and a few people. I sit. I do nothing... and get paid. not too bad.
damn im a geek. I want my DNA on a T-shirt.
Where has the weekend gone. I remember the last couple weekends being much much longer. No matter yesterday was pretty good. Grandma wasn't too annoying. Movie was good.
Had some strange dreams last night. But nothing bad. I just wish i could remember them better.
I wish i could actualy sleep in like i used too. Having to get up at 6:00am for the whole week makes sleeping in come to 8 or 9 which is pretty damn weak if you ask me. I love sleeping in until 10 or noon.
5:11pm: Beat Duke Nukem 3d: Manhattan Project today. Thats about all i have accomplished....
Today: I see dad and grandma, take pictures of his house, maybe clean room and work on webpages, see transporter.... Busy but should be good. Maybe i will toss a hair cut into the mix of things to do today. cause I'm starting to feel like a shaggy hippy or somethin...
I setup a DHCP server last night. I thought that was kinda cool/fun. The power connector on my laptop is breaking... so um add one more reason to get an iBook. Even though it is something Chris or I could repair on our own.. just a touch of a soldering iron/pen/gun....
10:39am: Wow why is the morning going so slow? Why are Cheerios called Cheerios? They are Os yes. Cheery no. They have no flavor unless you buy a non regular flavor such as HoneyNut Cheerieos...
Today will be anohter long day... Again I have class. Then I have to prep for the next one after it. My timesheet is due today as well. So thats another errand to take care of at lunch time. I think we are going to the transporter tomorrow or sunday sometime as today is busy busy for me and Chris isn't even in town until after 5...
So my stereo wakes me up just by playing music, which it does all night. I decide it's time to turn it off so i can go back to sleep. So i grab the remote. Reach up aim, hit the power button, it goes off with a familar click of relays pulling. No sooner than does the remote hit my night stand my alarm goes of signifying time to get the hell up. So crewl i tell you. Let me sleep, let me dream, let me rest. But instead i must get up, i must be aware, i must get dressed.
8:02pm: Class was pretty cool. Learned some. I shuolda asked more questions. but oh well. Nothin i can't figure out on my own later on. :)
not doin anything on yet another friday night. but im ok with that as tomorrow sounds like it may be slightly busy. but it should all be good....
last couple of days have been long. But worthwile and semi productive. I managed to fix 3 computers and take them off my list of things to do/fix around there... Next week gonna be busy busy too. well busy for me. thats ok cause that means bigger pay. Bigger pay=less time to ibook....
Gonna be in class til around 4:30 today so its gonna be short. I may post again after class. Or durring a break from class.
Today i learn more linux (maybe). So i hope you all learn something good and that you care or want to learn today.
I still got more stuff todo before class so im off to do those tasks before class then to class i go.
9:09pm: Long day. Learned some. I think the lady sitting next to me in class is crazy, stupid too. She sits there rocking back and forth while reading off a sheet of paper that tells her what do to but she still can't seem to manage to do what it says and its clear as day. How some people manage to get so far in life and lack basic skills and knowledge amazes me sometimes... I'm gonna just not comment about some of the other strange sweat pant, pony tailed, less than cleancut techs in the class. Or the weird guy in the back who asks way to many questions that should prolly be in a more advnaced class or realize that this class doesnt go in to depth that he is looking for and should a) take another class b) read a book. c) shutup... d) all of the above....
all and all good day.. glad to be nearly done with the week.
Gonna be visiting my Dad this weekend sometime and see my Grandma too.. Grandma is a pain but I can deal i see her so little these days and shes gettin old...
So Chris bailed on the linux class as he found some work for 2 days. So I will be there alone. No matter I am sure I can get something useful out of this class. So that makes today the last real day I am going to do real work this week.
Didn't sleep so great the last couple nights but wakeup and function fine in the morning. So maybe I'm sleeping better than I think I am.
I need new pants and its getting to be time for a hair cut. Maybe I will do one of those after work today. Maybe not shoping alone kinda sucks. But I know I can at least get it done in minimal amount of time as I'm not much for shoping around. I see, I like, I find my size, I buy. But its more fun with someone else around... As far as the hair cut goes it will most likely be another month before i actually get around to getting it cut, but maybe not.
When I leave for work the stars have not yet set. The Sun not yet risin. Far to early. But its calm, quite, peaceful, and beautiful. Not many others out or up yet so its all mine. Just taken by the darkness of the sky, glow of the street lights, twinkels of the stars and eventualy the rise of the Sun witch gives way to the day and the people. Some people wonder like why I like the dark, why I like the night. I find something comforting in it.
my keycard for work is broken...
2:53pm:I didn't feel like messing with the main of the entry cause everyone seemed to like it so much so i am posting updates here today.
anyways. I'm playing with Redhat 8.0 (Psyche) found a couple great lil gems on a website and learning some new stuff. I finaly got linux to play DVDs. Its no OS X but its still not windows.
Work was fast short and easy today. tomorrow prolly not quite as but hey thats ok. Thrusday and Friday class again. This time Use and Administration of RedHat linux 7.2 so its a couple versions back its still relvent and good info to have. Hell I may learn something. Ive been doing linux for about 3 years now. So hopefuly i will get something out of it other than a certificate of attendance. Chris will be taking it with me. He will hopefuly get more out of it than me seeing as he doesnt know shit about linux even though we have had a file/web server sitting at his house for about well 3 years now....
I/we had another bandwidth theif. Somone displaying and image on another site that resides on my server thus taking my resourses to display it. So the Tiny weenie club has gaind a new member.. Basicly what happens now is when the page that is using the image that is stored on the junknstuff server no longer displays the image that they started with. The image I used is very mild compared to some of the others I've seen used for the same reasons.
but now some Chinese kid who stole my image to represent him self now claims him self a member of the tiny weenie club.. so far 2 members and counting. lets see how long it lasts... :)
5:41pm: Forgot to thanks Rob of cockeyed for the great image.
4 days until The Transporter. That should help hold me over until the new 007 flick.
The colors, the smells, the feel. It is so Autumn here. I'm semi actively tring to take pictures that capture fall... I may go work on that today actualy. I got a few good ones from when i was in photogrpahy class that i should think about getting scanned. Maybe i will do that at work sometime.
I really need to get on the ball about some pages. Its just ive been semi busy, and un modivated to make them. I don't totaly know how i want them to look so its not as easy to do. oh well.
I should also think about cleanin my room up...
8:41pm: Cleaned up a tiny bit. not much. Took a walk and realized i really wish i had someone special (nearby) to go on walks with...
Got 2 new CDs Radio Head's Pablo Honey and Ok GO's self titled release... And took a couple pics too but they are not up yet.
Came up with more reasons to switch 1) Music play and managemnt 2) Picture managment, editing, etc. 3) Stable OS X baby, not that i manage to crash my windows 2k instalations often (usualy games do it..) 4) speed. the whole arcihtexture is suppior to a PCs. It cost more but you get more done per clock cycle.... Which remindes me of when we had a 200ish Mhz mac and OS9 (i think it was 9) kicking 400Mhz K63 and 700+Atholon ass for Seti@home stuff....
oh man. Why does apple have to make such cool stuff. Now i want an iPod too. I need a higher paying job or another one in addtion to just to fun and apple habbit.
Saturday. After a lazy friday night. Didn't do anything but sit at home online. It was nice for a change... Chris wanted to go to dinner but I didnt feel like paying to eat out so he kept tring to get me to choose and go some place but i just went home and had something. It was kind of annoying. So i just relaxed and slept. No plans for the day so far. But thats ok...
Next week work maybe hell again. But next weekend should be cool cause the transporter comes out.
3:18pm: HOT DAMN! just saw offical trailer for the bond movie. Wow it looks good. I can't wait to see it. I am sooo there. Just gotta wait til November 22nd.
i got something like $25 towards my iBook I am still a long ways off but its still progress.. I'm going to be stoping by my bank sometime after I get off at 11ish and before I have to go back in at 4ish and see what they can do for me.
I'm so glad it's friday...
Next week looks pretty crazy too. Chris and I are going to be taking a Administration and Use of Redhat linux class at my work so thats 2 more days of class time for me. The thing is I've been using Redhat for around 3 years now and I looked at the outline and I think I already know most of the information. But Chris doesn't and I if i can get anything out of it I'd be happy... But next Friday is class, time sheets due, setup for the windows xp class that will start the next monday, and The Transporter. It wouldnt be so bad if all the tings wernt in direct sucession of eachother...
2:47pm: Went to the bank talked to a guy. He is supposed to call later... So i may or may not be getting a credit card from my bank... its up in the air but i did stop in and try...
Work went really quick. I think its cause the fact ive been there so long for the past couple days. I get to fix extra stuff when I go back in.. Barb's windows 2k installation seems to have corupted it self. So i get to do a quick fix on that and wait til barb gets back to recover any data off it casue i don't know whats where or what she needs/wants off it...
Had a nice long nap today too. That was nice...
Something has me wound tight. I've been waking a lot in the night up finding my teeth clenched or griding them (i think). I feel fine when I wake up. I'm not draging too much or super tired when i do wake up. Its been like this the last 2 nights. I wonder what it is... Maybe i just need to take some time and relax or something... I dunno...
Today I get to do more of what I did yesterday. So i do my morning thing at work. Then sit in class til lunch. Then get lunch and come back and stay til end of class then take care of what ever else is left for me to do at work (change out drives, or fix something.)
I really gotta get off my ass about a few pages. The gateway/entrypage and group page... I also think we need a few other type pages but I will explore that idea once i get the ones i need to done....
is anyone one else having problems with moveabletype?
1:09pm: Back from lunch. Had my self some pizza from Straigh From New York Pizza. The lady next to me in class seems to be using lunch hours to go shopping. Today she came back with with something like 3 bags of stuff yesterday she came back with one, and none of has been or is food.
Serisouly is the week over yet? How about next week. I want to go see The Transporter as that is supposed to help hold me over until the new Bond flick comes out. Looks like a ton of other good movies comin out next Friday week along with The Transporter...
Was on way to work this morning looked up and saw pink jet streams. Dawn is pretty. A little too ealry for me but pretty...
12:52pm:At work, in class. Learning MS Access... Not too bad. The crap part is that I will be here until around 5pm. I got work resposniblitys to take care after class. And I get to do it all again tomorrow.
If I didn't have to work tomorrow and friday I could be going to christmas vally with my dad to go 4 wheeling. But nooo i got class and work... I should think about getting back to learning here. But its kinda borning now that i know how to get around in the program....
2:33pm: wow this last two and a half hours have gone pretty quick... Learning some it will be better onc i can use this stuff in practice....
I just figured out why somepeople stick their noeses way up in the air like they are snooty when they use computers. It has puzzeled me for years well a while now at least... BI-FOCALS!!!! Man im glad i got 20/15... (thats better than 20/20) so maybe when im old i will get 20/20 when my vison starts to go...
Didn't sleep so well. Kept waking up and had a semi violent/fun dream with a couple friends in it something like a Jackie Chan movie or a Jet Li movie us throwing things like tables and chairs at eachother effortlessly and kicking them down occsonaly getty hit but not hurt and some other kicking of ass too. Some of it kept happening over and over again like it was a videogame or something. But the frequent wakeups lowered quality of sleep. At least iI got plenty of sleep sunday night to make up for last night....
12:07pm: No credit history means no loan. No credit history means no credit card application approvals. I've always been baffeled as to how Chris got a credit card working part time at a pizza joint while still in HS and my own bank which ive been with for like 4+ years wont approve me for a damned card. But Chris has 3+ and managed to max em all out at some point or another gotta have it to get but cant get it with out it. The ultimate catch 22. So I got a while to figure this credit thing out so I can be getting my self an iBook...
