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So it was suggested to me to actually BUY a Jimmy Eat World cd if I wanted their songs. There are a few reasons why I wont. One of them being my current work situation, I dont have a job… and although I have quite a bit of savings I’d rather not spend that on cds ’cause once the savings is gone it’s gone, and I am sure there are much better things it could go towards. Now of course I *could* ask Myk to buy it for me, he would have no problem doing that, but if I begged him to get my ever cd I wanted we’d be poor %) besides, I’d feel guilty since he does buy me so much other stuff, oh and he supports my non working ass %) This doesnt mean that I dont buy any cds… The most recent cd I bought was the most recent Mediaeval Baebes cd… I like to support groups who dont have much other support and Mediaeval Baebes isnt too popular, and I luv them, so it’s a good investment %) I did end up getting some Jimmy Eat World mp3s from a friend of mine yesterday, I was kinda disappointed by some *shrugs* i guess every band has it’s lemons ;)

Anyway, after all that bitching I did about scripting in irssi… I finished the R²D² Bot. Yep, just a day ago I was complaining that I’d never finish it, and I can say now that he’s all up and running perfectly. See yesterday around 4:30 (which is like the end of the day since myk comes home around 5:30-6:30) I had quite a breakthrough. I finally discovered how the parsing worked, well, enough to make my script function anyway. So I wrote a few commands for the bot yesterday. Then this morning as soon as I got up (around 9am) I was writing script for that silly bot until I realized it was 11:30 and I still wasnt dressed, I hadnt even brushed my teeth… so I took a break and took a shower n stuff.. then I came back and finished up the script. It’s running now on the webserver… so when I reboot my computer, or my connection dies, or whatever, R2 is still alive moderating the room, yay! And he’s fast since he is running off a very fast connection, not like my crappy cable connection. But I am really happy I got the script done, it was a lot of work, but definately worth it %) I needed practice with Perl anyway, and it makes me feel like I am doing something.

So I got this interesting IM on ICQ (those ppl are so weird) from some guy saying he was writing a book about angels and was looking for people to “help” him with it. *Shrugs* Usually I just close these windows without paying attention, but this one I felt like responding to, so I asked a couple questions (he was offline) and forgot about it til this afternoon. I was still puzzled about his intentions until he send me the rough draft of a webpage he is working on to post the info on. Apparently he’s an artist/naturalist who does portraits for money and studies nature and other fields in his spare time. Pretty interesting stuff, and apparently he’s pretty well traveled, used to live in california.. lived in africa for a time while getting his degree, and is now living in England. I’ll believe him about all that… they were pretty obscure things to lie about. Anyway, he wanted my picture and a short description of what I thought about angels. I quickly explained that I didnt believe in them in the biblical sense and he said that didnt matter. So on this webpage he had painted portraits of people, and then written on pieces of paper what these people thought about angels. It was really interesting, and I guess he wanted to do a portrait of me and what I thought… So obviously skeptical I asked how he chose the people… and I guess whoever responds to his random ICQ message.. he was just going to do his friends and more notable aquiantances (said he knew the members of Massive Attack… and one of the portraits was of one of the members…), but one of his friends encouraged him to seek out strangers for the project as well. So do I believe this guy is gonna spend 8 hours (that’s how long he said it would take) on a portrait of me just for a book? Hell I’ve got nothing to lose, any idiot could find my picture on the net with barely trying, it’s not something I try to hide… and what’s the 20 minutes I spend writing a couple sentances about my idea of angels? And in the end I think it would be kinda cool to have a portrait made of me, even if I can only see it over the net %) Don’t worry, I’m not getting my hopes up.

Ah back to the r2d2 bot thing, since it took me so long to work on it and it’s done and I’m happy. I am gonna write a little “about R²D²” section for my webpage… he’s just a bot but he’s been on quite a few adventures since being created (i’ve come a long way from high school). It’ll sorta be like the section I had on my old spree site about R² which I am sure no one remembers.. I’ll probably reread that and grab some ideas from it… in any event I’m gonna sorta work on that, and write the little angel thing. *wanders off*

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