o/` Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major o/`

How many cents off a gallon of gas is a human life worth? Next year will you sleep well every night despite every mile you drive on your cheap gas being paid for by the blood of our fellow countrymen? Of course you will, because you think this war will be about “terrorism” you think this war is because we “might be attacked.” Have you honestly thought out these scenarios? Do you care?
I am such a hippie.
I talked to my sister Annette today, apparently she is being held back in the 8th grade… I’m not terribly surprised, just disappointed. I guess they are giving her a chance to go to summer school and stuff to try to make it up and proceed to high school with her class, but she doesn’t care and said that she’d rather stay back. I asked her if she’d try harder this time, her response was “nah” … *sigh* oh well, there is really nothing I can do about it.
We were going to try to have some people over this weekend to watch children of dune… but like so many of our plans, these were rather short notice, so no one can make it *sigh* I am however going to go out with Nita and her sister to an outlet mall on monday. I’m not a big shopping fan, and I don’t have any money, but it’ll be good to get out of the apartment for a while.
So this linuxchix mailing list is really great.. there is one mailing list of theirs I signed up for recently called “grrltalk” and I’m really glad I did. See the number of female friends I have is very very low, and of those that I can talk to when I am really stressed out? Well, I dunno one or two maybe? And they are not *very* close friends, so it’s hard… why this lack of female friends? I dunno, I think it basically comes down to not sharing enough interests *shrugs* … But, I do share their feelings! There was this thread on the grrltalk mailing list about dealing with stress and when it gets you down, it was quite interesting, and made me feel much better that the feelings I have when stressed out are universal… I mean most guys I talk to when I am stressed laugh at me and it feels like I’m crazy! But I now realize that the reactions I have are normal, yay!
Something has been bugging me lately, and it has to do with people, surprise suprise! … I complain about people too much, but this bugs me. These people who continue to try to teach me obvious things about computers. Now I do love to be helped when I ask for it, I appreciate when people answer my questions, and I do enjoy helping when i can… but some of these people just go on and on, as if I don’t understand the fundamental elements of computers. Even when I tell them I understand, are they just trying to show off their computer knowledge and using telling me as an excuse? It bothers me because it makes me feel like they think I’m stupid, it makes me look stupid because people come into the channel and see that someone is explaining this to “me” … I dunno, I should just avoid these people %)
So I hate “reply” … it never works the way I want it to! I am fairly new to mailing lists, and in mutt I try to be careful because when you hit r to reply (g for group reply works a little better, but its not perfect) it trys to send the message directly to the person instead of the list. I have only made this mistake twice, and people have done it to me too while replying, so I dont feel so stupid I guess… But yesterday Myk forwareded me a message from a list that he and some of his friends are on (private list) from a friend of is. I read the mail, and hit reply to send an email back to this friend and guess what? Yep, reply sent it to the private list. FUCK! Luckily it needed to go to the moderator for approval, so I msg’ed the moderator and told him to ignore it… he said it was fine but it still made me look stupid! Ugh… hopefully this will teach me to pay attention to the “To:” field!
Now what was this email about? A web design and host
ing job. Woo! This small company doesnt want to spend a lot, but they believe having their own company website will boost sales. So I sent our friend my information, apparently i’m the only person who replied to his list message, so he said he’d give the company (who is owned by his friend) my information, along with info for some web design/hosting companies, but he said he’d try to push them in my direction since he’s really not sure how much they are looking to spend, and there is no doubt I would be cheaper than a web company. So we’ll see, I am trying not to get too excited about it, but with the money I’d make from this, I might be able to pay for a hosting place for both the company website *AND* my own! That would be so great. Plus I’d have a company website under my belt to put on my resume! Woo! … ah shouldnt get too excited… (%
So I had a bit of an arguement with a couple of the other ops on psiblade last night. I am just glad I was around to catch what happened… see apparently someone flooded off the server the other night in what could have easily been a text flood or something (it only happened once). But one of the ircops decides to ask the guy who did the flood what happened. So he came into the guys room (which is a secret room, but since we are ircops we can see it) and asked him to explain what the flood was. Well of course, as anyone who owns a room and is confronted with someone asking such a question he says “who are you?” … now instead of the ircop saying “I am an ircop, just checking it…” he says “i’m me” … the owner of the room proceeded to kick him. Wouldnt you? Possibly not, but on psiblade we allow people to kick ops, and he didnt even know this was an op! Well, the room owner added the op to a shitlist or something, so the op would auto rejoin, and be kicked, several times. So what does this ircop do? Unregisters the channel! The admin for mst3k then got involved, and AGREEING with this ircop, he unregistered the room AGAIN and took it over. This is when I was messaged by the room owner to tell me what was going on, I looked in #opers and asked what the fuck was going on. The other ircops claimed they were in the right because the room owner didnt “ask politely” for them to leave. I called them Nazis. Luckily a fellow ircop came to my aid and agreed with me. Of course, who wants to be on a server where the ops are that controlling? I don’t. Luckily I was able to talk the room owner into coming back and not talking shit about us all over a bunch of networks. *Sigh* … I wish the other ircops would just realize how much work I do to promote psiblade, not everyone joining the network will be a shining example of humanity, but if we want our network to grow we need to tolerate a bit of it, this person caused no trouble and was being put down by ircops! That is unacceptable.
Anyway, it’s about noon, I am going to go find something to work on *wanders off*