| Level 12... |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|04:13 pm] |
Playing World of Warcraft. I have a level 12 Warlock, who I plan to fill to the brim with evil. Evil I tell you! Even my macro's will teem with evil, overflowing my virtual eyesockets until I gush evil out my tearducts and shower people around me with pure liquid evil.
Yes, folks. That evil. Oh yeah.
In other news I hope to change my god damn icons for myself to something besides this Thri-kreen. He's cute but ya know...he's an insect. And not many people go, "Hey! That dude has an insect! Let's talk to him!" Not that I do this for popularity, but I'd wouldn't mind having someone new pop in and talk to me.
So yeah. Good in Dark Sun. Not so good for LJ.
In other news I'm getting my teeth yanked because I enjoy pain. Having seen Kate go through the process I can only assume that I will enjoy it thoroughly. I anticipate many a happy day of sitting at my computer in a nausea induced coma, while walking my Warlock forward until I hit a wall. I will lack the stomach strength to pull him out of his bricky doom and shall call Kate so I can sob on her shoulder as I resurrect his evil ass again. The horror.
Beyond this I'm ok. I'm hoping my tax return can take care of some of this teeth debt. I'd enjoy that.
Pride Kia can bite me. I've got my credit hounds after them and soon with my receipts I shall exact my vengence and not pay their "Non-refundable" deposit that was somehow refundable before I said I was going return their car and get the fuck out of that sleeze infested wasteland of cocaine dealers down on their luck and reduced to selling cars.
In other news, I don't think I'm playing Vampire. I just don't have the time nor do I have renewed interest to do so. I'd like to hang out with the boys a bit more, but I really don't feel the vampire vibe anymore. Jeremy if you want my cards, and believe me you don't have all of them, I'll give them to you next SR session. I'll keep my decks for recreation in case I change my mind or if I want to play a game or two to pass the time but they are all yours until then.
Soccer. I want to play. I think I am going to play. Small problem. I found a group of people that do play. They however play indoors. No big deal. When it's at 12:00 midnight...that's a little different. Beyond the fact that it's fucking late I don't know where this indoor soccer is and I'd rather not run the through shantytown with a bag of soccer stuff and a t-shirt saying "Mug me. Mug me, my friend." at midnight.
Alright. My paranoia stops here.
Adios. |
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| Where am I now? How should I know...i just drive. |
[Nov. 5th, 2004|03:14 pm] |
Had a good time at Snookers. Much fun was had and though I didn't clean house with pool like I normally do with most of my friends I did pretty good. I should have remembered to play one on one with Remy. Meh.
Halo 2 is coming out soon and I shall share a conversation I had with Scott about it.
Scott: Ok. So when it comes out I will play it during the day and you shall play it during the night so we each get plenty of time.
Me: Well, why don't we play co-op so that we can see the game without fighting over TV when we are both home?
Scott: We can't do that.
Me: Why not?
Scott: Feh. Because it wasn't my idea!
Regardless, it should be tons of fun to play a game with someone else, especially since it's a game I should truly enjoy.
Hoping to play in the clan that might be forming for it. Who knows. Maybe, I'll get good at Halo again.
Writing some Shadowrun. Having fun and managed to come up with some sort of...story. Odd I know. More on that when you actually play the game.
Meh. This was a sucky post. More when I actually have something coherent to say.
-- Josh |
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| People, People, People! |
[Nov. 1st, 2004|10:05 am] |
If there is a party and you want me to go you need to tell me in advance. Besides having a horrible memory about this sort of thing I also have child. I need at least a day to prepare things to go anywhere, especially if I'm the only able to watch her at night.
So yeah. Remember me a little sooner rather than after the 5th beer.
Jeremy, give me a call. Let's hang out at my house one of these days. Scott's got GTA: San Andres and it's pretty fun to watch...I haven't played it yet cause I'm a spectating punk. I'm almost on the way to playing it... Really! Regardless give me a call. Don't know my number? Just email me. It hits my phone too. If you wanna go out and do something tell me and I might be able to get my parents to babysit while we go out. Maybe I can watch the mass mini-gaming sessions.
Adam! Come down this Saturday! If for no reason but to hang out but also to watch the SR games and decide if you wanna play at all.
Yeah. I feel like doing stuff. I'm kinda bored.
In other news I'm quitting Evil Genius. It's fun but it has too much management without real payoff. Sure I can do this and this and this, but my minions are so mindless it sorta takes the fun out of it. I've compared the game to Sims and where the mindlessness in sims is cool the mindlessness in this game just makes it harder for me to play on a short time frame.
Time to try out the other two games I got. Warhammer RTS looks cool...
Trying to get back into Reincarnation though I'm pretty sure most people have given up on me. S'okay. I kinda got disillusioned after it being down for like 5 days and just plain forgot about it. I'll give it another shot though.
Trying to reconstruct my main machine into the machine of DEATH! Alright...it's the same machine. It's just going to be running GSX. I need to offload all my crap off that computer. My end result is that I want it to run Linux (Which is very memory efficient) and then run GSX ontop of that. I'll run 2 or three systems ontop of that and maybe move my server home...That way I can do cooler things with it.
Watched Inu-Yasha again. I liked it the first time and I like it again. Especially since I'm watching the subtitled version as opposed to the dub. I'm no fan of dubs as most people know.
Blah I gotta do that work thing. I'll talk to my non-existant friends later.
-- Erghitz |
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| RAID 5 for the masses... |
[Oct. 28th, 2004|09:36 pm] |
So apparently Fidel wants a RAID 5 Array really badly. Enough that he's considering ordering 6 hard drives for us to play with these new SATA Raid cards we got in. Hell, I'm game but I'm not sure that we'll be able to buy it in the first place. If we did, that'd be cool. I likez RAID ya know Man'g?
Regardless, today I must help Juan. Juan , "I don't speak much english." Juan. W00T. And I have to help him over the phone. Rock. Nothing better than that you know? Just vocal conversation on the high end of computer troubleshooting with someone who barely speaks english. I know Scott's gonna comment on this, cuz I believe he's had the same complaint. My hopes is I can manage setting up the VPN and Firewall to accept Remote Desktop Requests and then allow me jump on his computer so I can just fix it my damn self. This is why I want everyone on DSL in my company. Remote Desktop. Boom baby, no more crap with talking.
At dinner with Kate's parents. It was fun. We had some sort of beef product cooked in it's own juices. I'd have to say it was tasty along with the jasmine rice mainly because it was. Tasty, that is. They stayed for the first three innings of the game and gave Norah a drawing table. Plastic and resistant to staining. I'd label it a +2 Table of Protection if I was a geek. Which I am.
Congratz to Jarrod Doyle. For what? Meh. You should ask him.
I'm finishing this journal entry at home because I never remembered to post it. I should install Kate's new Hard Drive. It's a scratch drive for her photoshop. It's a little excessive...but then again so is rugby. People still play that. Speaking of playing I have this strange urge to play soccer. Not league soccer. No sort of ultimate competition thing...just have fun running around a field with friends playing soccer. Naturally I think of this while it's winter..but...well maybe next year I'll do something. In the meantime I need to find the prices at the Y for a memebership. I'm ultra lazy and I need someplace nearby that I can easily walk to heavily exhaust myself and walk back to pass out. It's a good plan if I ever do it. I should be free tommorow. I think I'll do it then if I remember.
I should buy some free weights for the basement as well. I mean I can't afford a treadmill but I can afford a few blocks of concrete and a steel pole. Surely I can put it in the base where no one roams and work out there in my free time. Meh. Maybe a Christmas/Hannukah gift.
Playing Reincarnation again...got tired of it crashing for a while and just quit for a bit...hopefully it stays up this time.
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| Why do you make me have to hurt you VMware?! |
[Oct. 22nd, 2004|11:33 am] |
So I've been playing with Workstation on my desktop for about a year or so now. I'm happy with it and enjoy my occasional second or third PC I have up my sleeve. Recently however I've found that I wanted to delve further into this Virtual World. I worked with VmWare GSX which does the same thing as Vmware Workstation except it allows you to place the operating systems as services on the the host system. In other words you need a main operating system as the base and you install other Operating System inside of it that run off the resources of that main system. It's cool...but I wanted something a little more. The way that is I have the Overhead of the main system to worry about. I could reduce it by running linux as the host but I wanted something more. So I checked out ESX. That runs right on the hardware. Booyah! So I had nice 2 week period of elation thinking about installing it and running three servers on my machine...
Right.
Problem 1. It needs a minimum of two processors. This processors must be server quality. This last part is doubtful as I think I could run them on lower cache processors but the big hold up is the fact I need two.
Problem 2. I need SCSI. It will not run without SCSI drives and then I think it wants two. Right. I ain't got money for clothes let alone that. (Note: Chances are even if I did have money for clothes I'd probably buy computer equipment anyways.)
Problem 3. Ok, so there is no problem 3, or I didn't pursue it enough for problem 3.
Regardless my pipe dream has been flushed away and I'm left with GSX. To run GSX I need to run Server software so I guess I'm just going to have to wipe my current Win2k system out and start hacking with that. Meh.
Jeremy is in Seattle hanging out with Taylor. That's cool. Hope he has fun since he's been getting the shit end of the fun stick lately.
Shadowrun is looking...sparse for this Saturday. Only Shaun and Hibbert can come and I have not received word from Jarrod about him attending. Jeremy is in (ironicly) Seattle and Scott has to go to work. While I've no doubt Scott can type it up from IM at work I'm sure he'll have to do the what said location is named after. Work.
Work is cool. I wish I didn't have to do inventory for all of it. It's cool though. I'm taking an Access class with Fidel sometime in November and we'll be ab le to make a good inventory database so that maybe it won't get so out of date next time.
Things I wanna do at work.
1) Upgrade all the damn computers around here. We had a Mac problem because we couldn't update them because panther (The Mac's operating system name) had a disagreement with our firewall. The Firewall gave them the hand and the updates had to be done around it physically. Booyah. Alot of the Pc's don't have the latest As/400 Clients and some of them need CallPilot Upgrades....etc. etc.
2) Upgrade to Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 when it comes out. It looks hot. If it can do everything it says wirelessly then I think it will save me and the people who use them in the field ALOT of time. I've had too many issues with the software. Syncronization with the OST and holding Mapi in place while setup...it's just no good. I'd rather have the completely wireless package. Now how to get it so they do it is the question since the software costs a king's ransom.
3) Training. I wanna know CallPilot, I wanna know Access, I wanna know AS/400. I wanna know this stuff because it's all useful stuff that I could use here and other places if I move on. It's all resume building stuff and that's what I intend to do. If I can't afford schooling then I'm milking the real life for all it's worth.
4) Get people to call me back. Listen I know it's cool to go to the first person who answers but when you call me for a problem and we worked for 30 minutes on it and then you call back in later and I'm not there, leave me a damn message. DO NOT call someone else who has absolutely no idea what you are talking about. It looks bad that you don't wait for me and you waste the other person's time. Chances are if you waste 30 minutes with me then another 30 minutes with him and then resolves the problem 15 minutes later you've wasted 30 minutes of time for 3 people. Sure it may not be a ton but this is just an example.
I'm hungry. I want Italian food. I think I'll get som Gnocchi with Cheese at my local Italian Eatery. Mmm... I gotta write some SR while I'm there. Taking the Powerbook. Oh yeah.
Kate was sick yesterday with a Sore throat and some soreness (Mostly due probably to the 16! Hours of work she did to get Friday off. She wanted some ice cream and got some Ben and Jerry's. I counter with a selection of ice cream myself. I don't what they put in these containers but it should be illegal. I wouldn't be surprised if some little kid sold themselves on the street to get some of this stuff because it was damn good. I dunno. I really was never into this kinda of food until Kate started acquiring it and making it.
Which reminds me, I need to see how much the YMCA down the street sells their membership for. I'm getting the pudge(TM). I don't want the pudge(TM). It's just not good. I know if I don't make a stand somewhere, I never will. My fat will realize it's winning and take over. No good. No good. So. Yeah! Maybe I should pick up a set of headphones and a player of some sort. Maybe an iPod. Kate's told me they are pretty good and since she isn't getting one I might as well.
Anyways. I'm done rambling.
-- Josh |
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| What the...? |
[Oct. 11th, 2004|02:51 pm] |
So, we took my fathers advice and deciding to go to Bristol Toyota where the salesmen are nice and the car are to be trusted. Arriving there we were treated very nicely by Eddie the owner of the place who came out to meet us and then was hooked up with a salesman who showed me around to all the cars. They had the typical selection of user Camry's (ranging back into 11K area. Ouch.) to the lowly corolla which was around 8K for the lowest model. I wouldn't pay more than 6K for a corolla so I was reluctant to dish out for them even though I knew they'd more than likely last the term if I took care of them.
After spying around the place for Toyota's the dealer took us to see the other model's which they say they "trust". In other words cars that have a good warranty, (Hyundai's which have 60K or 100K warranty plan) or cars that have been proven reliable. Checking out these model's Kate goes, "Hey they have my dream car.". She spied a Suburu Forster a car she told me she wanted to get (Or of it's like) while trying to buy our first car. Normally costing in the teen's of thousands of dollars when new or even used I had steadfastly refused having no clue about the future status of our budget. Seeing how we were looking and Kate hates it when we don't at least give it a look we decided to check it out.
It was 98. It looked pretty clean on the inside. The guy who owned it before us put matts down ON the matts. So as to not dirty the car. Craziness. The car was nice and spacious and the seats hugged you nicely and gave me a comfortable feeling. The driving was good. I can't say it was as smooth as our camry but I got the feeling from test driving other used vehicles that this was the rule rather than the exception. They tag on the front said 9K. 2K less than that other car. Still more expensive than I wanted to pay. I wanted to pay 6K to 8K. over like 5 years.
We looked at few more vehicles and disqualified most of them. They were standards or they hadn't been checked out yet as trade-in...etc etc. I should learn to drive a standard. It's much cheaper. I looked at the forester and decided maybe we should price it and see how much more over the top it is in pricing. I got nice feeling from the whole exchange rather than the "You are going to be taken for a ride and you may do nothing about it." feeling I got from Pride.
He wrote it up and told me they can't do more than 4 years on the loan because the car is below the year 2000. Meh. Eddie dropped the price on the vehicle to 8K. This sweetened the deal. They grabbed the Blue book on the car and it was 9,795. (Yes, I checked as well.) Not bad. I like when cars are below book value. Considering that pride was trying to sell me a vehicle for 1K above book value and started the base price at 13,999 it was more than reasonable.
We though about it for a little bit more and finally decided this was probably the best move. Kate could have this car, and I'd use the Camry. The Forester was less fuel efficient anyways and I need to travel longer distances than Kate so it should be ok. Best of all Kate could more easily do things like bring Norah and her new huge ass stroller out places as well as getting gorceries in the back of this vehicle without having to pile stuff ontop of itself in the back of trunk.
Now all I have to do is install that stereo in the Forester once we get it and the car situation should be resolved.
-- Josh |
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| I'm at work... |
[Oct. 8th, 2004|10:49 am] |
...all thanks to Scott. He let me use his car. It's cool that he can trust me to use his practically brand new car to go to work as I recall it was one of those things he loathed to do, unless he was drunk...and then only if he was really drunk and that was just to drive him home.
So yeah. Word up to Scott.
Shadowrun tommorow! I've got a few things cooked up but nothing major so people that want can figure out what they are doing with their characters in their free time. IE. Not being chased by Tachi. I'll send out an email about it in a bit.
Back to work. Sigh.
-- Josh |
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| In other more happier news... |
[Oct. 7th, 2004|10:10 pm] |
SOTA:2064 is out!!! In other more translatible terms (State of the Art 2064) it's a Shadowrun book that details changes and happenings in the Shadowrun world as far as culture and game play items. Of note is the changes or additions of rules for Physical Adepts and the hopeful addition of the Social Adept. Very cool as the two were either sorely lacking or non-existant.
Scott's probably already ordered it even though I never really responded to his message...but that's because I'm a slacker that buys cars out of his price bracket.
Tribes 3: Vengence has come out. I'm hoping to buy it sometime. Probably not this week or maybe not even next week... I dunno. I just gotta watch the cash flow. It's going to start to get tighter now that winters here. I gotta tally up our bills and expenditures. See what we normally go through. This way I can figure out what I can afford and not afford. This will also dictate the Christmas Presents for the people close to me.
Winter sucks. I hate paying for heating. I'm a wicked tightwad I know...it's just ingrained in my head right now. Plus our windows are air leaking fiends. My parents are getting new windows in that insulate and are sealed and nice. Meanwhile I think I get more airflow when my windows are *closed* than when they are opened. Meh. By the time I'm so cold I can't take it anymore it's time to sleep anyways. Meh.
In other news that may help my money woe's Fidel(My boss) is telling me that they may switch to Nextel for all the Sales people...that's...alot of phones. I'm in charge of...all the phones. So they say this may help me with the possiblilty of a pay raise/hike when they come to my review...which in retrospect I should have asked when they were going to do. Hopefully it's a decent raise when it comes because I tend to give decent amount to the company and I'm prepared to do more for them. Here's to hoping for good news.
-- Josh |
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| News from the sleazy side of life. |
[Oct. 7th, 2004|09:46 pm] |
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Yeah well, in the more stupid parts of my life I do things on impulse and don't listen to the calm rational part of my brain that's normally engaged while doing cooler things...like computers.
So I began the process to buy a car.I looked at a Nissan Sentra 2002 GXE for 11K. I really only wanted to spend 6 to 8 grand on a car but for some reason in my mind that never really clicked.
So...the car merchants were sleazy as hell. Naturally, right? At one point the guy wrote down in a scrawl some figures and the words "I will buy this car." with a an X and line under it. He said to sign it. I'm like fuck you. You sign it.
So anyways, while I was saying I wasn't really interested some part of my brain said "You could probably afford this." 200 dollars a month over 6 years.
The rational part was saying internally "I could...were it not for the other bills I'm going to receive for the rest of winter and some teeth repairs I'm gonna eventually have to dish out for." So regardless, I went for it and they let me take it home as a dealer owned and insured car.My father needed to co-sign for it still, and I put 500 dollars credit down on it. I never signed loan papers but I did sign a credit check paper that had some small agreement which I'm sure had a clause saying it was non-binding if the deal changed.
Tommorow I went to work with it and basically thought it over while talking to the other people. Some people said it was solid car, other's said it was expensive, and other's said they won't pay more than 8K for a car. So little bells went off in my head sometime in the mid-day and I talked with my boss for a little and decided I was going ot return the car.
The car place called for a bit and talked to my father who informed them we weren't interested in the car anymore. I talked to them too and they fed me the "Non-refundable deposit" bullshit. Right. My father called another dealership he was good friends with and they basically said the guy was full of shit. They can say it all they want be we have the right to return it and get our deposit back. You'd assume I asked them to kill their first born the way they talked.
So I went with my father back to the dealership and they gave me the whole frickin' deal and brought over the store manager and said I was stuck and that my life was over and I should just buy one of their cars and get over it. I discussed it with them for a little while using my style of I don't believe a word you are saying. My father walked in (Having had a bit of problem finding the place) ended the talking and said we don't want the car we want the deposit refunded and we'll take you to the credit peeps if you don't. They started to talk again and my father just said to get up and leave. That's what I can always count on from my father, he doesn't care about being the bad guy. He just does what he has to and shrugs at you if you have a problem with it.\
So it's gone. Good riddence. It was an ok car but I wasn't pleased with the service nor the price. The blue book value was 10K anyways for it's mileage count and I saw better prices online anyways. So they could be more shady dens of nefarious evil. So what. I think I can take it now that I got a taste.
As for cars I'm looking for I think I'm going to look at Toyota's again. My car lasted 8 years without serious incident and I treated that thing like crap. I figure if I take care of a different one maybe I'll be ok.
-- Josh |
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| *RIP* Corolla 1996 Metallic Green *RIP* |
[Oct. 5th, 2004|01:59 pm] |
A haiku for my fallen car.
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On the road you fell
Your heroic persistance
I will remember
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Hammy yes. But it should deserve that much for carting me and my friends around since I was able to drive. 8 years. Not a bad run. Think what would have happened if I treated it better.
I have to go pick out a new car to buy. Well, not new. Used I mean. A new used car may be the more accurate statement of what I have to buy. I don't have much money to put a down payment on it and I loathe to put anymore money on my Credit Card who's minimum payment is at 108. Not good. The tax return is taking care of that. Regardless this is going to push our finances to the max since we still need to get our teeth fixed as well. All the money is very mindbogglingly flying around and I don't quite like it.
Regardless we should be able to handle it. I always panic with this sort of thing. I don't like commiting money for 4 years expecially when it exceeds 100 dollars. I'm figuring for a used car I'll spend 150 to 200 a month. Although we got the camry for 147 a month. We have to pay 100 for insurance...and my father used to handle insurance for the old car...so figure...another debt for 250-300 a month. Not so good...I should have more pay down the road anyways.
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[Oct. 4th, 2004|12:31 pm] |
April 15, 2004: Support for VHS is coming to an END
Our VHS sale ends on April 30, 2004! Every anime VHS tape has been reduced from it's normal price to just $3.48, and all Samurai Cinema tapes are only $9.98. Plus we're still giving away a FREE surprise gift when you buy five or more tapes at once! Our VHS inventory is dwindling, thus sales will be based upon availability, so order now! PLUS - This sale may also represent your last chance to own certain titles, as some shows may not be released on DVD.
If you are still interested in utilizing one of our VHS rebate programs for Urusei Yatsura or Kimagure Orange Road, make sure your shipment carries a postmark of 04/30/04 or earlier. If not, the package will be returned and you will not get credit towards your DVDs! For more details about this program go here: (link)
As of May 1st, AnimEigo will no longer support VHS! So get your rebate tapes out and orders in - TODAY! |
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| At work... |
[Oct. 4th, 2004|09:18 am] |
I'm at work listening to the people behind my front wall of my cube natter their gossip. Natter natter natter. I thought I left that stuff back in high school. Like those high school football jocks that still think they can play the game so come the preps or skanks that still think they gossip around everyone and still get away clean. It's pathetic and I hate it. None of it is directed at me but I suppose the scars are still there from when it always used to be.
How do you scare 400 people at Island-Oasis? Turn off our power for a long enough duration to down the AS/400 Server. That how.
Macintosh G5's...they are fast, cool looking, and they also work...Classic mode (The mode that emulates the old macintosh systems for legacy programs) however is a pain in my ass and because it can't emulate the printer that they want to print off of I look like a ninny. They need to print out of Outlook 2001 for Macs and they won't be able to print out of it because of that problem. It's the only classic program we have and we won't be able to get out of it until we upgrade the Exchange Server. That's not going to happen tremendously soon.
The Blackberry Server is in it's new home and looks cool and best of all it has a UPS! Which means that when the power went out over the weekend I didn't have people and Fidel yelling at me because the blackberries won't send or receive email. Supposedly from Kate's brother's mouth, they have a new Nextel Blackberry coming out. I hope it has Bluetooth. (Bluetooth is basically wireless for computer devices. So you can have your bluetooth mouse you can have your bluetooth phone and you can have your bluetooth toaster. Sure! Right click three times and it will start the toasting process. Go nuts!) Then again another part of me hopes it doesn't. Bluetooth has gaping security holes that are so large they even talk about them on NPR (National Public Radio) That's one gaping crator of a hole. So I could get something cool that doesn't need to be plugged into my computer to be syncronized or need to link two things together to exchange phone numbers...say...that's a cool marketing idea. No more pens! Use your bluetooth phone number swapper! Avoid that whole "Do you have a pen stage?" in your new relationships.
Heh. Well that's enough until I finish this new call.
-- Josh |
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| Rent is almost due! |
[Sep. 27th, 2004|10:48 pm] |
Rent's almost up. That means financial ruin has arrived once again! Booyah! I'm overdoing it, but that's what I do. We got more than enough money for rent so it's no biggie.
I'm trying to return my Urusei Yatsura Anime for credit at www.animeigo.com but I have a feeling they aren't doing it anymore. Which sucks. They we're going to give me like...5 dollars a tape. Which is better than nothing for getting the DVD equivalents. Kinda silly though. Like Monty Python said "See all those grainy dots and and bad film in striking clarity with the DVD's!" The quality will be just as bad as the VHS equivalents because the masters they used to publish are that bad. Not that I care. At least the DVD's won't degrade more. Also I can take bitmaps of the DVD's and I have to go through hell or at least talk to my video store jockey Bill to get them transferred to DVD. I'll buy the DVD's. I like pretty boxes.
Alright. Short post. I'm tired and I gotta drive one and half hours to work in the Cape for one hour and then drive back. W00T!
--Erghitz |
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[Sep. 26th, 2004|10:24 pm] |
So, I'm trying to change my damn Icon from a Thri-Kreen(sp?) to this silly picture of a cat with boxing gloves from one of my old anime's I like. It's not going well since it seems I'm the only one that liked the minor character and the fact the movies were first out on VHS making it difficult to port out the pictures. I'll probably buy the DVD that he's on in advance so I can make some of my icons I want. I suppose I need to make more intrests and actually try and add friends and update. Probably won't happen but what does it matter since this is supposed to be a self justification thing anyways.
Work is going good. I have a handle on everything that is going on and I seem to have little trouble dealing with all the problems they receive. I'm assertive, I have good ideas, and Fidel seems to treat me as an equal which is something he didn't use to do. Two days ago we talked about setting up RIS (Remote Installation Services) at work. We both joked about how useful it would be...on our resumes. ;)
Steve is the other guy that works in Island Oasis on the MIS team. He's this big black dude who looks like he should be a bouncer. Regardless a few weeks ago he got bitched out a few weeks ago for not doing enough work and since then he's been more friendly to me. Maybe it's fake but since it's work I don't care. I'll just keep an eye out for shinanagins and dodge when needed. He went out for Network+ training last week. He called in once and made the offical "Oh my god" comment of the week. "It's so many numbers!" he said. For those not versed in networking technologies, that's all it is. Numbers. Me and Fidel (The Network Admin) laughed about it for while. Steve sounded so surprised. It was just kinda comical.
I have been in contact with a few people I know and it kinda sucks. I used to talk to the Arlington peeps alot but we've been slowly drifting apart. It's the distance and the fact my daughter is a handful. I kind of which I could be that idle friend but I get very distracted very easily and when I may be thinking "Hmmm, I should write an email." I'll look at something on the floor that shouldn't be there and pick it up and throw it in it's proper place and BOOM! I've forgotten. Now add an infant I have to constantly watch over and it's not hard to see that I never manage to write the email.
Talked to Adam today. I gotta go carpet shopping with Adam or at least pitch in on his carpet he's decided on. He bought Kate this awesome blender for a housewarming gift a while ago and it's been very useful. Plus I barely see the kid and I suppose it'd be a cool time to take him around arlington or wherever to show him some cool places to eat or whatever. Maybe we could go to Shabu-Zen. I dunno if I ever showed him that place. (Shabu Zen is a hot pot restaurant where you cook your raw products in boiling seasoned water. It's tasty. They also have tons of dipping sauces. It is very clean and in Boston's Chinatown. Very clean. Trust me it's rare.)
Been having some problems with Jeremy. I'll call him and try to work things out.
Shadowrun is going good. Tachi is no more. The adventurers finally managed to deal the cyberzombie a fatal blow and end the streak of revenge that would soon ensue had they not. There was some initial trepitation(sp?) but after a grevious chest wound to a player character they decided it would be bested if it ended there and now. They managed to take out four Red Samurai, (The other two retreated.) Arthur was gravely wounded, but he feels much better now.
Had a Yard Sale. No one bought any of my anime. This is because the mass of public sucks. I'll just sell it on Ebay and get DVD's of anime from the bunch that I still like. We made around 100 duckets (Dollars to you folk that don't know the insanity we spout here at home.) and are probably going to buy winter clothes with it.
I'm getting sick. I can pretty much feel it. My throat feels a little sore. Hopefully it won't be anything serious and it just a little exhaustion from the days activities but since my whole family had the cold it may just be that it was inevitable.
In other news Iran wants safe power...and to show the world they mean business they launch a new test cruise missle a few days after saying they are going to enrich some uranium for the "Safe Power Plant." Riiight. Honestly, it's just plain rediculous. One who wants to put on the positive face for power shouldn't test god damn missles days after saying they are going to do the nuclear shuffle. Ok. I listen to too much NPR. I only have AM radio in my car. Leave me alone! ;)
Alright. Till my next post.
-- Erghitz |
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| Since I can do it...why not? |
[Jul. 20th, 2004|09:56 am] |
I figure I can post at work now since I've been situated enough...not that it'll become a habit regardless.
Things I've done in the past...thing.
Rented an apartment.
Ignored FFXI.
Got a Blackberry from Work. (It's my precious!)
Created various software installation to solidify my feeling of being a total and utter geek.
Ignored my anime which is not growing at a rate I find comfortable. I suppose a lot of the anime isn't as good as I like it...but then I haven't really tried.
Got a new job.
Bought my THIRD power supply for my old computer. Damn you god! This one is a good one...I hope.
Started playing Archmage again under the new guise of www.the-reincarnation.com (No doubt I'll become disillusioned and quit after I get my tail thrashed.)
Realized that Norah is quickly starting to understand the feeling of I want. And that rapid foot stomping and and dancing is the way to satisfy that need.
Trying desperately to get FNM into the store to satisfy the magical itch of so many magic players we have. Damn banners!
Played Shadowrun. Made a forum for Shadowrun.
Sighed as I realized it's not going to be as easy as I thought getting everyone on the forum to roleplay.
Replaced my tires on my corolla because my car shook like it was constantly in a 10.0 earthquake.
Listening to more and more Portishead. Scott will undoubtably not believe me.
Hung around with Kate and Norah.
Looked at my extremely enhanced Nemo DVD player. Otherwise known as our Xbox.
Pondered just putting the damn TV on the floor and forgetting about this entertainment center nonsense.
Congratulated Jeremy on his job...and sympathized with Jeremy...about his job.
Realized in the 20 minutes I've been sitting here I can now research that damn spell in archmage.
Bombed my Exchange 2000 test. Feel like a tool.
Oh well. If I think of more stuff I'll just post again.
-- Erghitz |
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[Apr. 8th, 2004|10:26 pm] |
Sitting at home wth Norah.
Got some cool ideas for Shadowrun which sucks, mainly because ideas I have for the game don't get instituted into it until at least a month away. Nothing like feeling like my ideas are stale after thinking about them for a month or two.
Trying to work with my Exchange book but I'm a little distracted right now...so I'll probably just get some of the niggling details around here done.
Having Passover this Saturday. I should be watching the store Friday. I also should be going to play Rifts on Sunday. This pretty much makes an unhappy Kate. I'll make it up to her somehow.
In other news Adam Scarborough, got his job down in this neck of the woods which might mean he can come hang out more often, which is more than little cool. Plus since he's getting cable and maybe a new system he might be able to do some nice LAN or Internet gaming action. W00T!
There is an electric toothbrush sitting next to me. For some reason it's grabbing my attention, maybe because I remeber when they used to be like 200 dollars. Now you buy a pack of teeth whiteners and you get the little whirley bird for free. *shrug*
Got Final Fantasy XI. It's pretty fun and I kinda like my little TaruTaru Black mage even though the little twerps in the town talk all cute.
Example:
Him: Are you happy-wappy?
Me: No. *Cast stone*
Him: *screams as he is beaten to death by magical stones*
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What. You'd do it too if you could.
Norah's a little cranky having a tooth coming in. It's not like she's angry all the time like most people imagine it. Just view it as though you were talking to a female friend and everything is normal until you say something mean. Then imagine she suddenly gets PMS x10. That's pretty much how Norah is. Act nice and she has a ball. If something doesn't go her way it's instantaneous tantrum and crying.
I've got the webcam I bought a while ago ontop of the monitor. I might set it up one of these days. You can see my ugly haircut. Maybe I'll stop paying for bad haircuts one of these days or even more importantly get less sensative about them. The latter is doubtful so I better get crackin' on the fooling myself with another place.
My sister is watching ER. I can watch it but I'm not really a fan. Ever since mister sarcasm doctor lost his arm via helicopter blade, and then Kate telling me he died a season or two later by a helicopter falling on him, I can't take the show even remotely seriously enought to enjoy it. It's ok. I can get my sarcastic doctor fix from Scrubs.
Meh. I better stop this posting stuff. I may actually like it and start posting again. *laugh hysterically* Yah...post...I kill me.
-- Josh |
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| Update...four months later. |
[Feb. 12th, 2004|01:07 pm] |
Good things: Going to New York, Good Tax Return (Thank you, Norah.), Norah is walking around, Norah's off the formula (Yay! No more 30+ dollars per week for super milk), still have my job.
Bad things: My mom's computer is busted, my computer is busted, my other computer's power supply is busted, and I may have sent a 2,000 Volt shock either into my motherboard or my case. I'm hoping case. |
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| Blargh, evil food. |
[Nov. 4th, 2003|01:02 pm] |
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Aside from the fact that my current meal is so sterotypically bad, (Beef is dry, potatoes are not cooked enough, side noodle dish is mooshy and the sauce has the taste of ground stone mixed with water), aside from the fact I've been building a stupid Java workstation for a user I've never even seen, and aside from the fact I want a job that pays alot better...I'm doing ok. |
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[Sep. 25th, 2003|11:47 am] |
My massive work abilities have freed up some time to do some shadowrun at work and I've managed to cook up some good stuff. I've even gotten a pseudo story setup up for someone that might be reading this lj. Sometimes, I really surprise myself with the stupid things I come up with only using a few details I remember off the top of my head. Othertimes I just sit there and go "Ummm..." for an hour or twenty. Regardless it should be fun for all involved. Or else. Or ELSE!
I'm worried about this week's shadowrun, because I won't be pulling many punches. Then again I say that every week and I manage to screw up the non-pulling of said punches or the players completely dominate what I throw at them. This time I think it's a little different because I'll reward rash actions with bullets rather than complete domination. It's cool to charge in some place guns flying, and even cooler if you come out unscathed. The coolest is when I truly throw the safe at you and you make it out alive. Hopefully, that'll happen and people will have more fun/respect for the game. No apologies.
Norah's getting dangerously close to speaking whole words. She manages to almost say Daddy, which comes out as a Gigi, or Dagi. She can say Mamamamamamamama. Not Mama. So its more like working the mouth muscles than actually saying the words. She's pretty damn cute as she is, I dunno if I can take her actually talking or making sense in any form or fashion.
Then again, if we can talk and she can understand maybe I can tell her to stop taking those monster poops in the evening when I come back home. Always a plus, ya know?
Played some Panzer Dragoon Orta. (Tank Dragon(Dragon Master?) Orta) Has a cool foreign feel to the name when its translated loosely. I've basically confirmed what Scott and I have said about the game. Only he and I will like it and all others will shun it and ask why we bother even playing the game. They won't understand. It's just fun.
Kate's character for Shadowrun is complete. She has bought dice. I've made the inklings of the begining of her introduction into the game. It's almost like she's going to play...Hold me, I'm scared! ;)
To add to the randomness of this update, I'll just say that I don't have much to do at work, however on Friday and Monday I have a total of 8 timed calls. Which means that specific things need to be done at specific times or specific people will get pissed at someone, specificly me. Yay.
Playing with the idea of having Shadowrun on two nights. Saturday and Sunday once every two weeks. They will be from 1:00pm to 6:00 or 7:00pm so that people can go to work at night like they normally seem to do. Then the next day we can start at that same time and go till 5:00pm. Not sure if that fits everyones schedule but it seems easier and will give more play time if it works. Plus stretched over two days it won't seem like a huge meeting of just rolling dice over and over. Comment me on what you think.
I think that's all for now.
I'll talk later.
-- Josh |
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| Your chair a little higher? Sure. Lemon in your soda? Why not. |
[Sep. 11th, 2003|01:09 pm] |
Yeah, so I got a new crop of MACD calls. Like four of these ask for specific things to happen at specific dates. Like, "I need my computer set up now, but I want my files copied over later." or "Setup this new computer with my software now, and move my net drives over tommorow" or "I have this program. It has a CD-Key. You were supposed to have installed it last time you came here. Where's my CD-Key? I don't know!".
The last one in particular is good. Normally we have all the program keys but for some reason this one went rogue. Someone says she should have it and she says we should have. Chances are I'm gonna have to go to the vendor with incomplete info and then eventually just shoot myself when they say they need to talk to someone important instead of me. Also I get assaulted with this call because it was supposed to be done two months ago. I did it. She says I was supposed to have installed a new version she said they had ordered. I look at the form. It says it was ordered 7 days after I installed the current version of it. Riiight. And even though we have an order form for it we have no key. Riiiight. Anyways. I'm super busy and I just felt the need to waste 15 minutes of my time to complain into some digital media. I won't even get into the laptops that are still being completed.
-- Josh |
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