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| 12/29/99 |
Well, I'm back now, back and b-b-b-b-baaaaaaaaaaaad. I had a great Christmas with the parental units and relatives, and I hope you did too. Got some cool stuff for the house which I'll throw some pics up on the cam soon enough. Right now I'm doing docs, or to more exact, waiting for them to come back to me for fixes. I have a huge list of stuff to do on my site, the UFies.org site, and others. I might even start that today. But I'd like to get dressed first (was up late last night and I haven't had the effort to get dressed yet you see).
Who borrowed my Win98 CD???????????????
I lent it out a few days ago and have no clue to who :( Now I have another box that will be turned into a windows system and I have nothing to put on it. Maybe I'll turn it into a FreeBSD system like I originally planned... wonder if it's bios supports bootable CDROMs. I'm not sure if I should deck it out with more memory (256mb anyone?) and a cheap/fast cpu (I'm thinking K6-2 or K6-3) and somehow turn it into a gaming machine; or use it as another linux server. I could probably use it as a windows box better, and remove the need for me to ever reboot. That of course, would mean I'd have to have my '98 cd :P
| 12/23/99 |
My buddy Cat5 scored some boxen (p166mmx, 32mb ram, 15" moniters, 2G HDs, built in networking/video) from work for cheap, and I got one! (for future payment when I have more than $RENT+$100 to my name). Best thing is the moniter is better than mine and though the box is yet untested, the moniter has replaced my old goldstar, which will go on the new old box as a windows box or a linux server or maybe I'll use it to finally learn FreeBSD or something.
Thanks dude.
What else.... well, I finally got the art up on my walls and it looks awsome. Now I need something for above the computer and life will be good. I didn't use the huge screw for the Waterhouse... I thought that even though I'm going to be here for a while, they probably won't appreciate big holes in the walls. Wandered to a poster store in mission last weekend and snagged a poster of a section of this Delaroche print which I originally saw on the wall of a friend of A's. A very haunting picture. It's sad to have to put it up with pushpins, but you gotta do whatcha gotta do right? Anyway, here is a (bad) Delaroche (complete with moniter-to-be-not-used-any-more). Here is the Waterhouse that is on my other wall (another bad shot).
Still have boxes and stuff, but things are getting more "real" here. Not that I've had a chance to enjoy it all, I've hardly had a second to myself it seems lately.
Christmas shopping done!!!!!!!!! Yeap, in a mad rush around the mall I manged to get the ArcterParents shopped for. Not too bad stuff at all if I do say so myself. I hope they enjoy it :)
Now to wrap.
Note to self and note to other people: If you are going to use a jar and tree branches as a Christmas tree, don't give it to someone with 2 cats. Two days in a row I came home and found it on the floor or table, water all over the place, and orniments in disarray. The cats retreated under the bed as I ranted at them. Ah well, next year I'll know to put barbed wire around them. Or train the cats. Nah.... barbed wire and a rocket launcher is probably easier.
Ok, I heard this the other day on a US radio station (92.9). Apparently there's some gameshow that Fox is looking at. Basically you win the chance to marry a millionaire.
Erhmm.... excuse me? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this? I thought so. Lets list off the things wrong shall we?
*sigh* some people's tv stations....
Yesturday sucked. Long day at work. Spilled mocha on myself.... had no money, no mailbox, bills, came home to find gas had jumped from 42.x to 58.9, came home to find my kitchen table full of water, the xmas tree on the ground along with tapes and papers, had to vacuum with a broom, had some friends bail on me for a movie. A bad day. The good part was A came by and brought not only food but cookies! Good cookies too! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm............
Well, I look around the room and see nothing else of note, other than a sleeping cat (in a most odd position I might add) and the cover of a computer case. Well, and a desktop box (obtained today from Cat5 if you forgot already) and a bag full of yet-unwrapped xmas presents. Know what this means? Yes, that's right, sleep for me!
| 12/21/99 |
So much for sleep though.... we started a little late :P
I have paintings now! And a Christmas Tree! No pics just yet, as as soon as I finish this up I'm going to bed.
Did I mention I hate christmas shopping? I figured I'd just get a couple of things in town today... good idea, bad execution. Being as it's 4 days till christmas, all the men are out in the malls, and it's chaos. Oh, and the 'ol mastercard got maxed out. Greeeaaaat... so much for putting everything on plastic. Hope my parents don't mind getting recyled Linux t-shirts from the expo in April...
Ok, so it's probably not that bad, though I do plan to see what I can do with this "Internet Banking" thing (no, not by stealing money!).
Another "first time in the new place" event fell tonight too. First night of spaghetti! A little over done, but that's my fault. I'll have to learn to readjust the microwave action though, the high setting is a little too high. That and the fact that it turns on if you push against the door sort of worries me. But it's hidden in an area of the place I'm never in (the dining table) so I should be safe from going sterile. The bolts I got for the bed aren't right (right idea, wrong size), so I have to hit Revy for a refund on them. The only "first thing in the new place" that is left to do that's fast approaching is laundry. Hope that I can accumulate enough loonies for it!
Ok, new pix on the cam tomorrow, as well as an update on the xmas shopping. Current number of people got for.... 3.5. People left.... erhmm.... unknown. Like I said, it's gonna suck, I'll make a list at work tomorrow. Oh, and my list of bitches about the new place (nit picks really, nothing here really sucks except the lack of laundry facilities, but that's just cause I'm used to having my own washer/dryer).
Oh, and some final good news... the building manager is gonna get a locksmith in to fix my mailbox, so I'll be able to get my mail soon! And a heatlamp bulb for the bathroom, so I don't freeze my arcterass off getting out of the shower in the morning :)
| 12/18/99 |
Today was spent using my xmas bonus from work. There wasn't a lot in sears that I could get, till I realized all the things from the old place that I didn't have. So when I left there today I had a new toaster, wok and various pans and cooking utensils. Hell, I even have a clock in the living room now!
Christmas shopping hasn't even been started. I got some bows and tags, but that's about it. I'm really glad payday was yesturday, or I'd be completely screwed. Moving halfway through the month completely tapped me. Oh yea, and I have to pay for rent at the end of the month... eeek! I'm sure I could sell my body to science or something.
Went out shopping today for (along with the household stuff for the xmas bonus) furnature. I'm looking for a coffee table, a couple of endtables and maybe a bedside table. And the bolts needed to make my bed a reality. Speaking of beds, do singles not exist anymore? In Sears I was looking at the beds they had there and the tiny ones the size of my current one were all labeled "twin". No fscking way were those twins (if the one I have sitting against the wall waiting for a couple of bolts is a twin), they were barely singles. Course, it makes sense as a twin is more expensive than a single, right? Hmm.... I sense a conspiracy here!
Guitar is going well... I almost have B and bar chords are well.... coming slowly. I'll be a god yet dammit!
So now I have to eat lots it appears, I stocked my shelves with $100+ of food and such, so I have no reason to not make lunches and have a decent breakfast each morning right? Well, that's the theory anyway.
Now I think it's time to head over to Iambe's and go rent a DVD or something. Tonight I'll finish up (well, ok, start) christmas cards and hopefully get that small part of christmas done so they get to various places by at least new years, when of course the world will end (at least according the tabloid I saw in save on foods today). Course, I don't think the post office'll be open tomorrow (though I'm sure I can get stamps somewhere else), and they won't be picked up till monday anyway. But it's something else to check off the "todo" list right?
| 12/15/99 |
Now, if you'll allow me to bitch for a moment or 3...
If I were to design a perfect day, I wouldn't include pouring rain, or a lake where the parking lot should be. I wouldn't put in missing serial cards, or a trip onsite to replace a server. I wouldn't have servers that have their HDs go bad or the need to replace them. And I certainly wouldn't arrange all these things right when I'm starting doing some neat coding stuff either.
Hmm.... so much for xmas card shopping and K-bday (*wavetoK*) shopping at lunch. Hello wet and ugly driving....
Aside:
You know, life is pain, but there are moments in that pain of such sweetness
that it's all worth while. I had one of those moments a while ago, after a
long ride through the dark night. Not long after everything went to shit all
around me, not only for myself but for others, but it was that moment, or moments, that
makes life so sweet.
'nuff philosophizing for one day, I'm off to finish burning a new HD.
| 12/14/99 |
Finally got things almost totally settled down here. With some help from solas I made my living room and kitchen respectable. The shelf is now full, and over flowing in fact. So much for getting more stuff. I suppose a brutal cleaning is in order, but for now I just wanted things out of boxes. Cyranth brought over his couch and with a bit of re-arranging things are very homely. Now to work on the bedroom.
Thanks to A's friend I might get the chance to head and look at her basement full of stuff, including a double bed, coffee tables and so on. And she said "I don't want it, just come and take what you want". And who am I to pass on free stuff? So that'll probably be tomorrow night.
Today was going to really really suck. Driving down the highway I thought to myself, "what do I have to do today?" and came up with the answer "visit 4 sites, all with problems." This is not a good way to start out a day. That combined with a missing serial card didn't help :( Luckily the site that needed said serial card agreed to do things on Wednesday instead, so I was down to 3.
I went to the first one. Plugged in the laptop, ran the batch file to upgrade
the modem code (thanks Stewart!) and it worked...
... perfectly.
I went to the second site to see about their fubared HD. Ran fsck manually,
waited for a long time for it to finish up. Looked at the /lost+found dir and
said "eeek", copied some files back and forth... rebooted, and it worked...
... perfectly.
Went to site 3. They had a date problem combined with a dial out restriction,
which basically means they set it so they couldn't connect to the net after 5
and the date was 12 hours off or something. I reset things, upgraded some
files, some docs, and the new console code I was working on and rebooted, and
it worked... (yes you guessed it)
... fine.
(fooled you!).
So my day of hell turned out not too bad. That combined with getting the living room clean (only bed and bath to go!) made for a productive day. Now as I didn't get to go for a run (wierd day, started out very nice and sunny and slowing progressed to pouring rain) and I just don't feel like doing anything but getting a decent night's sleep, I'm going to do just that.
| 12/11/99 |
1:18am
Yeap, more packing, but now I know almost exactly what has to be done
tomorrow, and it's all set up to go. Now to get some sleep... 5.5
hours just ain't what it used to be...
Thanks a million in advance to my friends and family who are helping me move btw :)
| 12/10/99 |
Erhmm.... no, at midnight I was moving boxes of kitchen stuff to the new place.
Around 9 or 10 last night after practicing bar chords on the guitar to the tunes of Blue Rodeo I figured that I should get some boxing done like I said I would. So I started with the freezer. Ok, that's not quite right.... in a quest for food last night I went through the freezer to find I had meatballs, but no spaghetti sauce (though I found some later). In the process however I found I had a lot of extra stuff in there. Like... lots.
So I was brutal and got rid of anything that was moving, green, had more than an inch of ice on it or was not recognizable as animal, vegetable or mineral. Things are a lot cleaner now :)
Anyway, that led to cleaning out old containers, which led to cleaning out the fridge, which led to cleaning out the drawers and packing stuff up. I took far longer packing than moving, so I figure it was worth it to avoid having people come and sit around while I put wine glasses in newspaper.
Long story short, at around midnight I had 5 boxes packed and the entire kitchen (minus the last little bit of food in the fridge/freezer) cleaned of my stuff (oh, must not forget the kettle. Moved it all to my car, and to the new place, unpacked (even organized the new kitchen a bit, and discovered I have a million or so mugs) and brought the boxes back. By that time my laundry was finally done (no free laundry at the new place :( ) so I did the bed thing.
Now I'm at work writing cool code again :) On a new moniter which replaced the fuzzy one that was destroying me earlier. They think they are taking it back on monday to it's home (we got it for an install or something) but are they ever wrong! Muahahahahahahaha, a 17" moniter that I can have at 1280 and I can see without squinting! Yay!
Oh, almost forgot. raskal has put up a raskalcam. I still says he needs to show more skin.....
wh00p!
| 12/08/99 |
This also marks my foray into php3. The gallery has some bugs in it as far as resetting things if there's a fubar'ed link (ie: gallery.php3?pic=4222222abc or something) but that I'll deal with at some later time.
Throw some comments my way if you care.
My appologies to the stalkers. I may put a live cam up that I can turn on or off if I'm there, but like I said, 99% of the time I'm oot and aboot.
| 12/07/99 |
Earlier
Well, the day off was good. I'm not 100% yet, but doing better.
Today has been a day though.
| 12/04/99 |
They belived me that I was financially able to pay and wasn't an axe murderer. Fools! So this means I have in my possession keys for aptmt 102 of some address somewhere. Cool. Oh, and all my friends with trucks, erhm, got plans for next weekend? :)
My phone seems to be working now too. Tres weird.
I took the day off tomorrow. No, not because I've had a hell of a weekend, boss, but to hopefully kill off whatever is making me cough up lovely yellow stuff for the last 4 or 5 days. A day of 0 stress, 0 need to do anything, and just pure relaxation (something I haven't had in ages) will be the ticket I hope. No obligations no phones no nothing.
And now I'm going to bed. Wake me up and I'll have to kill you :)
9:01am
I just got in.
Interesting weekend so far.
Started Saturday with my "I gotta get out and find a place" (same thing I've been saying for the last few weeks). So I grabbed a paper and circled a couple of places.
Checked out the first one and found it was far to far out to get high speed net, and it was a fscking sty. Towel hangers half off, a deck blocked off due to dangerous sagging, etc. Not a good place. The second was right near Iambe. Nice, not too bad, no idea about the pets allowed or not. On a whim I wandered to the next apartment building up from that (where cyranth lives) and happened upon a guy washing the front walk. Taking the chance that a) what I'd heard about a place being available was true and b) this guy was indeed a manager like person of some kind I talked to him.
Well they had a place available, wave ready (with a little outlet labeled "wave" in the living room), no probs with pets, and cable tv was included. Not too bad. Free parking space too.
So after consulting the folks, talking to cyranth to see if he had found any hidden little "gotchas" I said I'd take it. Now I'm just waiting back to hear from the guy who is doing the background check on me to say that I'm not a criminal or anything (muahhahahaah).
And my phone died (yet ressurected).
And I lost my ring (since found).
Then last night I went out with my buddy S invited me out. S wanted me to come along to be a match up for A, so he could make the moves on S2. S2 being A's brothers GF (D)'s friend. Yea, it's screwed. Anyway, I know long before he did that he didn't have a chance with S2, but oh well. A's bro didn't come along, but his GF D did. So it was myself, S, S2, A and D. We hit a movie (Toy Story 2, very good, go see) and then a club (cat and fiddle in Poco). A good place, with loud music and not enough seats, but lots of pretty girls, we had a blast! Much better than the last couple of my forays into clubs I think. So we danced some dances, had some drinks (no mom, I didn't drink and drive.... it's hard to shift with a beer in your paw <g>).
S tried unsuccessfully to start a spark with S2, who I think had a better time with me than him. I had a great time with A and D ran home at 1ish or so, probably scared off or having to work or something.
It was a good time. Ran S2 home when we got booted out of the club at 2 (we went all around Maple Ridge so she could listen to the end of a Sarah M. song or 2), dropped S off, and then instead of taking A home decided we were both hungry (all I had had all day was a hamburger and fries). So we trekked out to a shell station that was open all night and got some food from a lady who was obviously just starved for someone to talk to.
It was a good night. But I'm fscking tired.
| 12/04/99 |
| 12/03/99 |
Morning
I think I got sleep last night, but I'm not sure. Ended up talking to Leather
Otter about his taking over the UFie seti@home team stuff, which has been
arranged. Hope it works out. My new arctercam site is /almost/ done. All I
need to do is put some pictures up and then I'll release it. Might put in the
option for a live cam as well, just in case I do have stalkers. Thing is it
sucks to have to kill the cron job that runs the cam when I want to play quake
or something. But on the other hand, 99% of the time I'm not there, so people
get the same picture of the back of my wall over and over again. We'll see.
I might be able to figure something out, but till then I think it'll be a
static image, a la frickcam.
Except for coughing up yellow stuff this morning (and using the last of the meds that got me through the day yesturday) I feel pretty good. It's friday, all the lights were good for me coming into the 'wack this morning, so that must be a sign right? Either that or Fate is preparing me for a really bad day by giving me a good drive in. Hmmm....
Course, my day can't be much worse than roomiekid's.... roomiewife was taking him in to be circumcised this morning. When I got to hold him while she was getting ready to go out I didn't tell him, I figure he's going to find out in a bit anyway, why not let him enjoy the car ride right?
That and at less than a week old he probably won't really know what is going on anyway.
Ha! Finally I came out the winner of something with Iambe. We went to the pub last night and were talking about men, women, and young women. I admitted that these days I honestly can't tell how old someone is. If they are in the 16-30 range generally I can't even hazard a guess. However, 22 is always the Right Answer. If they are younger they think they look older, and if they are older they think they look younger, and you come out a winner both ways. So she asked me how old I thought our waitress was. I said no clue, and she said that she was 26. "Women can tell." So when our waitress returned I asked, she said "well, how old do you think I am?" to which Iambe said 26 and I said 22. She pointed to me and said "bingo" and then something about "I'm going with him" (sadly I couldn't think of a good flirty line to go with). Iambe of course claimed she looked mature, but I know the truth! It was a good guess though I must admit. Course, Iambe claimed she was talking about the waitress that brought us our food (who could be 26 as she was in the same school as solas (sol, tell me how old that blonde waitress at Finnies is?), but that wasn't our waitress.
Ok, I'll stop gloating now :)
Here is proof that you learn something new all the time:
| 12/02/99 |
1:11am
Well, today is the open house... or will be, when I wake up in 6 hours. I
don't understand marketing people. We're cleaning the office. The bosses
(bossi?) are out of town or something, so it's me and our salesdude. First he
gets me to clean the workbench off of all the stuff we were working on.
Then he goes and puts other mess on the workbench,
to give the appearence we are working. HUH?!? WTF? Maybe I'm just an idiot,
but wouldn't it have made more sense to just leave it as it was? Well
wouldn't it? I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that an open
house was to open your office up to the world to show them what we're all
about. This would include the notes written on the whiteboard (all
whiteboards are 99% empty at this moment), the work we're doing on the
workbench and so on. Now, it wouldn't include my cow-orker's
2 week old lunch, sitting on his desk and happily growing things. I will
however, let him deal with that :)
2 things waiting for me at the post office. Hope I get there in time after work tomorrow. The first <hung head> is the start of my christmas shopping. Yes, I know, I should leave it till the last minute like any other respectable single male, but sadly, I didn't. Everything else though I'll leave till Dec 23rd again though ok? The other is a CD that I ordered ages ago. Oh well, I guess they had to ship it sometime eh?
I semi-retract my bitches about Keating from yesturday. The dude I talked to first, Stewart called me today and asked if I had sent the info. Well, Adrienne, whom I spoke to while onsite the other day had given me the distinct impression that the information he passed back to me (it is something wrong with the ISDN line itself) came from Stewart up in tier 2. Seems that's not quite right, or something. Anyway, good 'ol Stew called me a couple of times today. Once just to say that they were working on it! Wow, now that's service. Course, I think he is on prozac or something, cause he was far to happy. I wonder if he got the purple flavored ones...
Thoughts for the day, as I'm in a whimsical mood:
Oh aside. I finally got caught up with (and hung out with) someone I met (literally) years ago <wave>. That was cool. Nice to find another person like me out there once and a while ($DEITY forbid!).
| 12/01/99 |
Oh, and happy december :P
