2-28-03

Today is of the suck. I spent 13 hours at TU today, working on an EE lab, attending three classes, doing HTML work, Physics Homework, and Operating Systems Homework, and I have SO much more left. I'm still sick, feeling much better though. The thing is, I'm fucked. Royally. I have another AI project due wednesday, I haven't started it, and its going to be tougher than the last one, which I was unable to finish. I still haven't finished my OS project, and its due next Friday, and oh yeah, I have a test in there on the SAME DAY. Not to mention another HTML project due nexxt thursday, another EE lab due the same day, and even an EE test on Tuesday, to round the whole thing out. Oh, one last thing, the Physics Lab and HW for that lab on Friday as well.

Sounds about as much fun as a prostate exam, eh? Well, get this, there's more! So, with a bill coming for my mp3 player of about $300, the past several days I have been handed bills of $100 (for my internet, my mom forgot to give me last months bill, it comes addressed to my father), $200 (car), and $45 (cell). Plus, all my cash tips for the past couple weeks, amounting to about $350, my mom just borrowed. Turns out my dad's paycheck didn't come, so she needs my money so we can continue to LIVE HERE. No pressure or anything. So, I gave up all my cash, and wrote the checks for the bills. Now that leaves me with about $100 in my bank account to pay for a $300 mp3 player bill that's coming soon.

So. I have no time, I have no money, I'm still sick, and I'm supposed to be driving down to see Kathrin after Physics lab tomorrow. What the hell am I gonna do?

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2-25-03

How nerdy am I? I just saw an ad for the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on DVD and thought it looked badass. I miss DS9, those were the days when I would stay up way late on Saturday nights to watch it in syndication.

New Linkin Park. This just might be my favorite song at the moment. Thanks to Tyler for the hookup. Enjoy.

"Upper respiratory viral infection." This is what I supposedly have. Makes sense, I feel like ass. So, instead of going to the Chevelle concert tonight I'm going to stay home and sleep. On the bright side, tonight is new Buffy night, and I'm actually going to be able to watch it when its on TV, which is a very rare thing. I'm usually at work and have to download the ep like a week later, but I have the night off tonight cause I WAS going to Chevelle. Its ok though, the way I feel, I honestly don't want to go. I also get tomorrow night off from work, the campus doctor gave me a nice little note. Yes, my job requires us to bring in a note, they won't take our word when we're sick. However, I'm not entirely hating Zios at the moment, they gave me back my Tuesday night closing shift for next week. This translates into basically $20 more on Tuesday night, plus added responsibility, and when I think I can handle it, I crave responsibility. I think I'm going to make Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup now. Bye.

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2-24-03

I'm sick, and my mp3 player came. An up and down day. First off: the mp3 player. For those of you who don't know, I bought a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen, and its badassimo. It supports pretty much anything you can think of, with the exception of a digital line out, but thats just fine, I don't need one. I put all 14 gigs of music on it in under an hour, which is AWESOME speed (it comes with USB 2.0), and I've been sitting here playing with it for the past hour. I love the ability to sort your music and add stuff to your playlist while never having to actually look at the playlist. You can be deep down in a menu, playing with settings, and hit the "next track" button on the side and it automatically moves to the next track in the playlist without ever changing whatever menu you're currently in. It gets LOUD too. If you turn it up all the way, it hurts to have the headphones on. This is something that drove me nuts about my archos jukebox. Plus I haven't been able to make it skip yet. Oh yeah, and its a 20 gig hard drive, and about the size of a deck of cards :)

I think I'm in love.

Anyway, I really hate being sick, because I'm even more apathetic than normal. I have no desire to do shit, and I have a lot of shit to do. I want to sleep and listen to mp3's, and even that seems like I'm setting my goals fairly high. Hell, my arms are sore enough it hurts to keep them elevated just to type, so I'm gonna go. Y'all take care.

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2-23-03

I love snowball fights. They're awesome. Essentially harmless, great exercise, and a fun group activity. I speak from experience, as I've already been involved in two today, both in the parking lot of Zios. One was while I was on the clock, a couple of us ambushed a manager, the other was just a group of us in the parking lot a bit later. But yeah, hella good fun.

I've become addicted to Creative's Playcenter. It came with my new Sound Card, and its used by my mp3 player (which should arrive Monday, expect much happiness and celebration to ensue.) Its mad spiffy though, I just imported all my 14 gigs of music, and it has it all arranged by artist, by album, by title, by playlist, all seperately. I mean, its badass, I can find anything lightning quick. I only have one complaint, and that's that it doesn't support shuffle-play. I wonder if my mp3 player will have a newer version of it anyway, and that would be cool.

Welp, I have "The Bourne Identity" sitting here, looking at me, and I'm wanting to watch it. Kat and I rented it last night, but didn't get a chance to watch it, so I'm planning on popping that in here shortly. Its due back tomorrow morning, and I just really don't want to have to take it back before class tomorrow, so I need to watch it pretty soon so I can leave before the roads freeze.

Daredevil was THE SHIT. I mean, if you can just sit back and enjoy a comic book movie, then it may be one of the best ever. I just kept thinking that I wish they had done Batman in a similar style. Not the first two Batman's, those were ok, but the two gay ones, with Schumacher directing. I am forver going to hate Joel Schumacher. He ruined a movie franchise and made possibly the most hard assed character ever into a latex wearing panzy boy with "bat nipples." Shumacher is an ass monkey.

Games! This is a GREAT way to waste time, a shitload of little flash games.
Chipmunks gansta rap. From the guy who brough you the Star Wars gangsta rap.
Zombie Alert Home protection for sophisticated families.

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2-21-03

Lunch at the local supermarket. I dig it. Half a pound of chicken tenders for $2. Can't beat that. Anyhoo, I get the house to myself again this weekend, but I'm really not psyched about it. I always thought it would be so cool, I could do whatever I want, but alas, the teen movies lied to me. Jennifer Love Hewitt is in fact NOT going to show up and profess her undying love right as I feel that the post-prom party is spinning out of control, and I'm just a bit bitter about that. No, my weekend will consist of spending time with Kat on Friday night, work Saturday night and Sunday morning, and pretty much all the rest of the time SHOULD go to homework. Plus I'm going to have to fight with my sister all weekend just to get her to stay grounded. We all remember just how badly things turned out when I let her have free reign last time, and so last weekend I forced her to stay here. Every time she saw me all day Friday she would flip me off, tell me to fuck off, and tell me she was going to leave anyway (which, thankfully, she didn't.) Then her ride to school never came or she missed it or something on Monday morning, and I was still up from coding LISP all night (from about 5 Sunday afternoon until 8 Monday morning), so I offered her a ride to school, which she turned down, and then my mom gets home that evening and yells at me for not taking her to school. I can't win. I can't force Samantha to do what she's supposed to, I can't let her do what she wants, and I have to keep her from playing my mom and I against each other. I'm just tired of people and their bullshit. I've always operated on one rule in my life. Don't hurt someone unless they deserve it. I try to be a nice guy, I try to help people out, but I'm fucking tired of people walking over me for it. I'm really god damn tired of helping people out and getting nothing back but grief. The only reason I'm fucking staying home this weekend is my Dad didn't want to drive home, so he's having my mom drive up there, leaving me with the house, the fish, the great dane, and my sister to take care of. Oh, he knew I was planning on driving down to OU to see Kat this weekend. He mentioned it specifically on the voicemail he left for me late last night telling me that he "needed a favor" and that I couldn't go down there. I love the warm touches. Thats the first time I've spoken to him since last Friday. Probably won't hear from him again until next weekend. So, yeah, I'm fucking cranky. Oh, don't get me wrong, its not like I need someone to talk to, its not like there's anything y'all can do, I'm just fucking tired of this shit. I'm tired of not having time to SLEEP. I'm tired of having to deal with my family on a daily basis. I'm tired of not understanding what the hell is going on in my AI and OS classes. I'm tired of Zio's taking away every single one of my closing shifts and giving them to the people that they made "trainer," the vast majority of whom haven't been there nearly as long as I have.

I'm tired of things never going how I hope they will.

Sorry, I just woke up pissed today.

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2-18-03

God its nice to be back on MY Computer. For the past two weeks I've been using a pieced together Frankenstien that did what I needed it to, but it wasn't MINE. Well, finally, after about two weeks of computer hardware swapping, testing, and sending back broken RAM, I now have my network set up. My sister has her computer with a pentium 2 350 in the closet behind me. I have my multimedia computer with an Athlon 1.2ghz wired into my stereo system (TV-out as the monitor, sound card feeds directly into my receiver), and I have MY computer (an Athlon XP 1700+) up and running, which is what I'm on right now, FINALLY. Its all set up so I can remote desktop in to either one of them, which locks the current user out and gives me total control, OR I can just VNC in, which just basically adds my keyboard and mouse to their system, which gives me total access at the same time as them. Essentially its set up so I can watch movies and listen to music on my badass (in my opinion) sound system without ever having to leave my desk here. I'm pretty damn proud of myself, if I do say so.

So, after coding LISP for about 14 hours straight, I have come to two conclusions:
1. DON'T. Don't ever do that, unless you WANT a brain aneurism.
2.Orbital makes damn good coding music. I've discovered several Orbital songs that I think are quite badass, such as The Box, Bigpipe Style, Halycon & On & On, The Saint, and numerous others. Right now I'm listening to a 29 minute long version of "The Box" in surround sound. Boo-yah.
Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good today. I made enough money this weekend that I can afford to buy myself a replacement mp3 player, cause I have MISSED my old one that disappeared about a month ago. I'm figuring out one of three things happened to it:
1. Someone "helped" it out of my room, which is entirely possible, considering my sister has 20 unsupervised kids over about the time it disappeared.
2. I left in a class or something at some point, which I'm not so sure about, cause I don't think I had it in my backpack.
3. It somehow got caught up in something in my room that got thrown out or rearranged COMPLETELY, because I have torn my room apart looking for the damn thing.

Random link of the day: Rouk's Page. This is a blog run by a friend of mine in my Physics lab, its not bad. Thus concludes my random link of the day.

So, yeah, things are looking up, all my computers work, I can afford another mp3 player, and I got like 14 hours of sleep last night :) (I stayed up all night Sunday doing lisp, so I fell asleep right after class yesterday). Oh, one last random thought: I walked outside this morning to see three police cars parked in front of our house, and two more in front of our neighbors, and my very first thought was "I wonder what my sister did."

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2-15-03

You'll never know how much I envy you, bro. If you fuck this relationship thing up, so help me God I will beat your ass within an inch of your life. .(*smirks) Hope you and the lady Kathrin are having an excellent St. Valentine's!

Best Wishes,
~MgM

Every now and then its a good idea to listen to your friends. Thanks Matt. And yeah, I think a good time was had by all tonight. She brought over a cool card and some home-made fortune cookies, that was really sweet. It really amazes me how sweet she can be when I'm being a total jackass. I really don't deserve a girl who is willing to watch "Angel" reruns on my computer with me. I love you Kat.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Thank you.

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2-14-03

Heh, my physics lab is entirely more fun than it should be.
Anyway, like I said, been really damn busy, and will continue to be so all weekend. Tonight is Kat's night, I'm cooking for her, then giving her Valentine's Day gifts, then some movie with Hugh Grant she wanted to see. Oh, and there are strawberries involved.
*looks around
I may have said too much.

Anyway, LISP is kicking my ass. I have to write seven programs in this language I have never touched before in my life, and its the opposite of fun. I've written 3 so far, and have to write the other four by Monday. Can Zach do it? That awaits to be seen. Plus I work Saturday night and Sunday morning. Heh.
Oh, and if you ever cook anything that requires salt, make DAMN sure you read carefully exactly how much is supposed to go in there. I could've sworn it said tbspn and not tspn. So, yeah, my mashed potatoes have four times too much salt in there. Oops.

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2-11-03

Wow. Lets see... saw the All-American Rejects at Cain's Sunday night, that was VERY badass. Check out some AAR songs if you can, you won't regret it. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are all VERY busy days. Class in the morning, lab work in the afternoons, work at night, and homework after work. Fun, eh? Yeah, that's why I haven't been writing so much. I"m WAY behind in my Artificial Intelligence class, and I'm going to take it up the ass if I don't get it together. I have tickets to Chevelle now, and I"m really looking forward to that. They will rock, hardcore, and that's exactly the kind of band I'm in the mood for right now. Joe just recommended another band to me, OTEP, that I"ll be hopefully checking out later too. Oh, and I need a new mouse, my cat chewed through the cord to my $40 one this morning. I'm thinking very seriously about selling him off for violin parts. Anyone who hasn't checked out Kat's story about the signifying monkey in the forums should give it a look, its really strange, and thats generally a good thing, just look at me! But yeah, busy bastard is I, which is why I must go. But before I do, if anyone who knows me sees my mp3 player anywhere, it would be massively appreciated if you let me know, cause I can't afford to buy another one.

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2-05-03

Whoever thought of putting those little freeze dried starberries into cereal is pretty much my hero right now.

What a couple days. Have to RMA my RAM back to Newegg, it apparantly doesn't work, and of my three computers, only this one is working. Thats no fun. However, I made a shitty little webpage for my Internet class, find it here. I'm thinking about trying to get this blog validated as XHTML 1.0, but I'm really damn lazy, so don't expect too much. Oh, and Joe, that last link was target=top, just for you.

I'm going to Chevelle February 25th!!!!

2-02-03

Go read the story in the forums, Signifying Monkey. Now.