o/` Cake – Sad Songs And Waltzes o/`

It’s really dry in our apartment. It always gets like this in the winter, and dryness + long hair = static electricity. TONS of it, the only relief I get from it is my shower in the morning, and then my hair is wet. I put my hair up (like i NEVER do) last night because I was getting so sick of it, and of course as soon as I take it down to go to sleep I’m *zapping* everything again. *Stays away from computer insides and gas pumps* (the news media around here seems to be obsessed with warning people about gas + static electricity, and how it causes explosions sometimes).

Sometimes I complain too much. Looking back at some of my oldest xanga entries, I noticed that I was more positive in those… maybe it was because I was getting out a bit more, and it had only been 5 months or so since I was employed.. an entire year definately adds to this “hopeless” feeling %) I also didn’t care at all about getting comments, which I seem to check for often now… I guess I still dont “care” about them exactly, s’just I never looked for the multiple times a day, maybe I am just getting bored %) Yesterday I was definately bored. An entire internet out there and I just couldn’t *focus* enough to do anything, so after playing with my neopets for a bit I decided to read. Which was good, I finished the WOT book 10… and I am finally going to write up some reviews, yay!

Between The Rivers, By Harry Turtledove, 408 pages
I found this book very difficult to get into, and as a whole, rather boring. It was the tale of the world at the dawn of civilization, when gods ruled each town, and men were subject to their direct rule. It tells of the city and people of Gibil, the city of the lazy god, and how this god’s laziness struck fear of man’s independence in neighboring gods. Of course it is only a matter of time before the weakness of the gods is found and men elsewhere begin to rule themselves. I guess I would have enjoyed this book more if the characters were more developed, if was difficult for me to feel for even the MAIN character because he just was not believable enough. During the whole book I was waiting for something substantial to happen, and although the end does get a bit better, it was not really worth it, I don’t think I’d recommend this book.

The Last Hero, By Terry Pratchett and Illustrated by Paul Kidby, 160 pages
This large, illustrated book really intrigued me, I found it at one of those warehouse bargin bookstores and immediately grabbed it. It is a book of Pratchett’s discworld that tells of a group of older heros on a quest to “return the fire to the gods” and the journey by some of Discworld’s more powerful leaders to stop them, as this would destroy the world. As always, I greatly enjoyed Pratchett’s wit, and how wonderfully funny his characters are. The story itself was wonderful and greatly entertaining. It was also quite a treat to see visual adaptations of our beloved wizard Rincewind, and Death, and the spectacular pictures of the disc itself. I belive those who havent read any of Pratchett’s other books would even enjoy this, I will definately be reading this again and again

Sourcery, By Terry Pratchett, 260 pages
This is another book in the Discworld series. It tells of the eighth son of an eighth’s son’s eighth’s son, who is a sourceror of course, named Coin. Directed by the staff that holds the soul of his father, young Coin sets out to take over the world. As usually is the case, the wizard Rincewind is pulled into being the hero throught coincidence and mistake. A group of witty and funny characters, included the beloved luggage, fill every page of this book with “I can’t put it down” humor. Great book.

Book Nine: Winter’s Heart, By Robert Jordan, 780 pages
As with book eight, the complexity of the story continuing in this book causes it to move rather slowly. This book begins slowly and ends with 200 pages where it’s difficult to tear yourself away. Along with catching up with Mat, it further describes the invasion of the
Seachan, and more about their social hierarchy. Characters are reunited joyously and the last portion of this book leads you to understand more of the soul behind the renegade Asha’men, and several other large and small surprised and wonderous acomplishments, in the light.

Book 10 came out this month, and although I really want to wait until it’s in paperback, I am SO tempted to spend $18 on the hardcover (that’s with 40% off… since it’s $4 of top ten books sold at bn.com currently … currently #32 on New York Times Bestseller list). *Sigh* it’ll prolly be over a year until the paperback is for sale! Oh well…

I have no idea what I am going to do today. I am still on that “wow I got every goal I set for myself acomplished” kick… I am having trouble focusing as well, I think it’s because I have been sleeping a bit more than usual 8-10 hours a night, and when I wake up I am groggy, and that groggy feeling doesnt go away very quickly.

Two of my toes hurt. *sighs as she looks at her right foot* I probably hit them on something recently that I don’t remember… I am very clumsy and hardly ever remember where any of my bruises or other minor injuries come from %) But one of my toes is definately swollen, it’s not broken ’cause it still bends fine (not that anything can be done for a little broken toe anyway), and the other has a distinct area that is very pinkish… you never notice how much you depend on even your smallest toes to walk until one is hurt %( and I never notice how often I hit my feet on things accidentally until now. Yay toes.

So the guy who offered Myk a job in Florida called him yesterday. I am not sure if he has an official offer yet, but he was telling Myk all about how great the facility is down there… no cubicles, everyone has an office! *GASP!* When he told me this I laughed and asked if it was indeed the same company. “Yeah,” he said “No wonder my current facility is shutting down, it sucks compared to the others!” Bleeeh florida %) I hope he gets an official offer from them soon, I really would like to know whether or not we are moving down there, so I can plan a visit to see family again before a plane trip is required for that. And I know that Myk is seriously stressed out from work. Apparently just recently the *lost* his resume, and apparently they need the resume he was hired with on file, so they emailed him to get it. This was just the tip of the iceburg concerning the stupid mistakes this company has been making. The day he got the email about them requesting a copy of his resume one of his co-workers laughed and said “man, you are living in a dilbert comic!” … It’s not as funny as it seems! %)

Hmm, this is a long entry. Sometimes I wonder if I spend too much of my life writing about my life and not living it. Then I remember that having a life is very difficult currently… eh… at least I have people I talk to in IRC %) I NEED to find something to do today… *wanders off in search of something to work on*

o/` Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees o/`

Second entry of the day, yay.

So I said I was going to play with my bios this morning right? Ugh…

Fun With My BIOS

Hehe

I thought it would be fun to make a “splash” screen when my computer starts up, and my Asus motherboard came with all the software needed to acomplish this task, so I boot into windows and install the software.

The software isn’t the prettiest I have ever seen, it’s actually rather sad looking, but for some reason I decide to trust it, and I discover this neat little “backup your bios” tool included! Kickass.. I backup into a file on my harddrive (and onto a floppy disk just in case I need it in that format). Mistake number 1? Trusting this software.

I had a splash page that I prepared in The Gimp while still in linux. I go through the easy “do this then hit next” wizard, which includes pointing to the bios config file that I saved, and at the end of it they say to reboot the computer so things will work. I reboot.

The splash screen works! YAY!

I get an error about a missing “FastTrack Controller” … now I had had this error before, and Myk fixed it somehow while helping me out with my system. It’s not a terrible error, it still boots, but it’s silly to have an error like that. So I boot into windows.

“Wizard has detected new hardware, run hardware installation wizard now?” … WTH? I thought at first it was redetecting my normal Nic card, because windows sometimes likes to install drivers mulitple times (for fun?) so I cancel that and assume it’s just a silly windows thing. I go online to search for that FastTrack Controller error, and the first hit is for the P4S8X (my motherboard) help messageboard … apparently by default the ATA/Raid controller is Enabled, stupid? Yes. I restart so I can disable this in the bios… but why was it all of a sudden enabled? I reboot, go into the bios, change that back to Disabled, and go back to windows.

“Wizard has decected new hardware…” This is when it dawns on me that there is obviously something else wrong… why was something re-enabled that I had disabled? What is this driver that Windows wants to install? The driver for the SiS nic card.. my onboard nic card that I had disabled. Reboot.

Go into the bios, check my settings, and sure enough, EVERYTHING is set back to the defaults!!! That bios config backup tool *didnt work* So I fix everything in the bios (i hope!) and putter back off to linux.

Now this adventure would not have been so bad if it didn’t take half the morning %) Ugh! So much wasted time… I wasn’t even about to mess with the sounds on startup, it would be cheesy anyway, and probably get annoying %)

*looks at the time* Hrm, I suppose there is something I can work on for the rest of the day, I’ll think of something, if all else fails I can always look for quotes to add to my random quote file on my website *wanders off*

o/` A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras o/`

I was in #linux on minute.clockbot.net yesterday helping out an acquaintance with a Perl script he’s working on. It was really cool, he can check his mail (hosted in linux) from a web browser, the page looked really nice too, but he was having trouble viewing each email. You could see the inbox, the subject, sender, date… but when you clicked on the mail to read it you got an error. Now my knowledge of mailservers is severely lacking, Myk controls everything to do with our mailserver and I only weakly grasp the workings behind it all, but I said I’d take a look at the perl just in case I could be of help. On first glance I was lost! I understood what the script was doing, but without more knowledge about mail I had to admit I was really at a loss to what it was. I was able to tell him that it was not the perl script however… the error he recieved on the page when he tried to view the inbox was nothing like the error that the perl should have given if that was the problem. In the end he found out it was a simple mail problem, I was happy to point him in the right direction tho, and it made me feel better about my Perl abilities %)

Ah, last night Myk got printing all set up on my computer %) It’s so nice, color even! I have to say one of the biggest problems with linux is the difficulty in printing, that bothers me, but eventually (with a weekend of work!) we finally have our network printer printing perfectly, it’s so nice! And the color quality is actually better than when we were printing from linux to win2k, I am so happy… not that we print a lot, or care too much about the ‘quality’ when we do print, but it’s nice to have the ability and reliability there %)

We watched “The Sum Of All Fears” last night, it wasn’t bad, ‘cept for the whole Ben Affleck saving the world from nuclear disaster thing… oh, that was the whole movie? Dammit!!! It really wasn’t that bad, pretty much what I expected, but nothing award winning in my books *shrugs* After watching that I went to read for a while. I have about two chapters left in Book 9 of the Wheel Of Time, I will probably finish it tonite %) I went to bed rather early, around 10, since Myk wants to get on a “better sleep schedule” and keep a “better diet” He’s so cute %) He really looks fine, I mean neither of us are in top physical condition (no 6-packs I’m afraid, LOL) but we are healthy and by no means fat. I am glad I am involved with someone who is health concious tho, I have a terrible tendancy to revert to a bad diet when people arent looking, heehee, I guess I would have more self control if I gained lots of weight on such a terrible diet, but my weight always seems to stay within a 10 pound buffer zone around 130 pounds.

Myk didn’t have time to set up Unreal IRCD on my computer last night since he was busy getting printing to work, so I’ll work with services later sometime, instead I think I am going to go lurk in the wonderful world of my computer’s BIOS. Well, I am going to play with it a bit anyway %) See, my wonderful Asus board talks, but it has a female voice! It’s turned off currently, all it does is “talk” when booting up (to say the boot went successfully or not and why) and it verbally warns you if the CPU is too hot, or a couple other problems I can’t think of right now. When you turn the voice off it just uses system beeps to warn you of such things. But I have a pretty good handle on my box’s stability and cooling needs, so I was thinking of turning the voice back on, and changing the startup wav.. yes, you can change the wav files!!! So on bootup I can make it beep like R2 to say my boot was successful!!! YAY!!! Also, there is a “splash screen” that comes up when you first boot up, currently it’s turned off, and says “Asus P4S8X” with their pretty logo, but you can change that as well!!! Yeah, so I can have an r2-d2 picture there instead %) I am gonna mess around with gimp for a bit this morning to get a good splash page made. All these things are changed with a win
dows program that came with the motherboard (ick windows, but what could I expect?), I havent even installed the program yet. But this will give me a good lesson in how to backup a BIOS %) since there is no way I am changing anything until that is done, fun stuff.

Yeah, so I am going to go do that noew *wanders off*

Strange, my premium subscription ran out on saturday and my page doesnt look all *unpremium* yet… they must be lazy %) Hehe…

I have til Febuary 1st to get the network admins at psiblade to get their acts together and fix the services and make sure the server is stable or I’m afriad some of my friends are leaving. This upsets me of course, if they leave I’ll be joining another server with them… not that that’s a problem, I’m already on two servers, but I will feel as though I had failed them because, well, I have. It’s frustrating, these admins can’t even pull themselves to have a meeting if their lives depended on it! Rar.

Ok, I won’t let this ircserver thing bug me anymore, there is nothing I can do about it at the moment.

Yesterday I spent a lot of time reading, only have about 150 or so pages left in Winter’s Heart, it’s good, but I am noticing as the Wheel of Time books progress less and less happens in the story as it gets insanely complicated %) I took “Signs” back to Blockbuster, and um, ok, that’s about all I did yesterday %) It was a nice relaxing day….

*45 minutes later*

Gah! Sure, as soon as I say “I won’t worry about the ircserver thing, I get bombarded with an admin saying “I DONT CARE WHO HOSTS THE SERVICES!!!” and getting all crankiey with me, all I did was tell them we needed to fix this problem with the services or we’d lose chatters. See the ircserver we are running is Unreal IRCD … which is lame anyway, it’s because the people who started the network are all windows people, and even thought now most of the server is running on unix boxes, they won’t change to a REAL ircd (heh)… and currently they have the services running on an unstable windows box (redundant yay!) that runs on some business DSL line somewhere. So after this little bitching session by an admin I found these services: http://www.ircservices.za.net/ … they look decent, Myk is going to set up a local ircserver tonight so I can play with how to install these servoces tomorrow…(I would install the ircd, but since Myk is familiar with the configs it would take him a fraction of the time I’d take me to figure everything out)

NEXT!!!

I’m writing an admin page for R2D2’s (the ircbot) mysql database, so I can edit it from a browser (on our internal network, I am still far too paranoid to give root mysql access to any page on the web, .htaccess protected or not). It’s coming along nicely. I’m also moving the “address book” that I have on my computer to minute (our webserver) … so I don’t have to have apache and mysql running on my workstation all the freaking time, hehe.

In other news, while I was spending hours *relaxing* this weekend Myk was setting up CUPS on our printserver. Previously we had used a Win2K box for our printing and scanning.. only because there are no scanner drivers for my crappy old parallel port HP scanner in linux, but we decided that our limited scanning usage is worth just hooking it up to a box in windows when we need to scan. Having any sort of server in windows is absurd… we’d be getting ready to meet friends at a new restaurant, quickly go online to grab some directions from mapquest… and the print would fail because of some stupid windows problem, the windows box was sitting in the corner doing nothing for 2 weeks and all of a sudden it crashes during a print request, or just deletes the printer driver all together. It caused many very angry nights %) It’s all working nicely now, YAY! Even color %) CUPS is so nice *hugs her printserver*

So I was talking to a friend today about depression. Apparently he has been through rough times lately, and his depression that he has had for a very long time it is finally too much to handle alone. I mentioned my terrible time with the anti-depressant amitriptyline, and after mentioning this I decided to look up some information about this drug that I took for so many years (it’s scary how little I know about it). I found out some frightening things.

Family Practice Notebook : Amitriptyline

First of all, apparently the do not prescribe this for depression anymore because of “adverse effects” and among the these are “sedation and morning grogginess” “weight gain” and “Anticholinergic Symptoms” which include, yep, you guessed it, seizures! (I had a seizure my senior year in high school while in english class, they never found the true cause, but I got off the amitriptyline very quickly after that). Anyway, this site explains a LOT of my problems in high school, what was the doctor thinking putting me on this crap?! The funniest thing is, this medication is often used for insomnia… and insomnia is one of the most serious problems I had growing up! So it didn’t even work for that… Thanks doctor, for making me paranoid to take the advice of any doctors! Gah…

Anyway, it’s after 10:30 and I still havent showered and dressed *eak* … I hate mondays. *wanders off*

I had a decent day yesterday, did a lot of reading, then in the evening we ordered pizza and wings, and went to Blockbuster and picked up a few movies. The pizza was decent (for philly anyway), the movies were ok… We got “Signs” and “Ice Age” (as well as “behind enemy lines” but we havent watched that yet) and I guess I expected more out of them. Signs was basically just a bunch of “dramatic shots” and “dramatic catch lines” strung together in a so-so alien invasion movie. And Ice Age could have been much better if the sloth wasnt so annoying… I suppose it catered to ayounger audience than I am, but it had a lot of adult comedians… so I guess I expected more, more “Antz”-like I guess (that computer generatedmovie with Woody Allen, came out around the same time as “A Bug’s Life”)… anyway the long toothed squirrel was funny, that was the only character that saved the movie from being a complete bomb. The funny thing is we planned to see both these movies in the theater. We went to see Ice Age, but there was so much traffic that we arrived 10 minutes after it started and went to see “Panic Room” instead (which I dont recommend either), and the night we planned to see Signs there was a terrible rain storm, and a 45 minute drive on a friday night to a busy theater to meet our friends wasnt high on our list of things we wanted to do that night %) In the end, I am quite pleased that we didn’t see either of these movies in the theater.

I went to bed around 1 am… this better diet and regular sleep schedule has done wonders for my insomnia troubles. The best part is that doctors told me all along that I should try both these things to cure it and I never listened to them %) Oh well… I am just glad I can sleep like a semi-normal person again, I just need to stay away from the temptation of taking naps, especially on weekends!

So the irc server that I am part of is really starting to bug me…. ok, it’s been bugging me for months, but it’s really getting to a point where I can’t STAND it anymore. The services go down approx. once a day and when the ONE person who has access to the services box is gone for the weekend, of course they go down friday night and leave a server full of bitching chatters. So this morning, upon waking up, I find a pm from a friend of mine who moved his room to this server… he is threatening to leave again because the services are so unstable… it’s understandable, but to appease him I wrote an ops script on R2D2 (my irc bot) to give them ops when they ask for it in their room, the bot will also keep the room open so the modes and topics remain when the services die… this is starting to sound a lot like the scifi server, gah! Oh well, the server admins are trying to get together for a meeting about all this, hopefully something can be fixed before all the people I convinced to join our server leave… I guess I wouldnt be so frustrated if I hadnt tried so hard to get users onto this server. I guess it makes me look bad, I promote a server and then it turns out to have flakey servies.

Today will probably be pretty boring, but that’s perfectly fine with me %) I am really enjoing book 9 of the wheel of time series, and keep thinknig about how awful it will be when I finish book 10 (it comes out this month) … I will have to wait a couple years before the next!! AH!!

Anyway, I am going to wander off and do … stuff.

http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm <-- hehe

o/` Jewel – Don’t o/`

I have a sinking feeling that my list of “things acomplished” for this week will be rather short. On that note, I will noew write in my weblogs %)

On my birth certificate my name is “Elizabeth Ann Krumbach” … a nice first name that I’ve always been fond of, a middle name that is so common that it’s joked about, and a fairly uncommon last name. I’ve always liked my name, and the name “Elizabeth” gives TONS of options for a nickname. My parents called me “Beth” … apparently it’s because they had considered the name “Bethany” for me (ick). I never much liked that nickname, I guess since it was terribly boring. I actually got into a conversation once about how boring the nickname “Beth” is. So all through my elementary and middle school years I would drive my teachers insane by switching between wanting to be called “Beth” and “Elizabeth.” Eventually I settled on Beth.

During my senior year in high school I got online. And at this time all I had been exposed to as far as the net was concerned was aol chat rooms, and as a whole I was actually AFRAID of the net!!! Crazy huh? So when I decided to go to scifi.com and join their chat it was quite a step for me. When coming to create my handle (nickname) a few things went into my choice, PrincessLeia2. So in IRC people started calling me “Leia” and “PL2” and “Princess” … fine with me, the net was still distant enough from my own being that I didn’t consider that a real NAME for myself, and no one knew my real name, part of my paranoia was using the alias “Eve Johnson.” Amazing how paranoid I was! Now anyone with half a brain when it comes to computers can find my address AND unlisted phone number (no, that is not a challenge you crazy people!). Anyway, as my web presence increased, I met a few of my online friends, generally when I met them they’d have trouble calling me by my real name, which was kinda funny, and I actually began *responding* to “Leia” hehe… yatta yatta a couple years go by… I date, move in with, then break up with an asshole ex who didnt let me online and finally come back to my chatting world in sept 2001. I started dating Myk, and I sent him an email once and signed it “Liz” … I guess because I had finally got my self esteem back, and my life had COMPLETELY changed, I was really a whole different person then I was growing up. He commented on this and said it would be cute if I was “Lyz” .. as in Myk and Lyz … Now this thought had crossed my mind before, but I never took it seriously until he brought it up.

So my name is Lyz right? Have you EVER tried to change what people call you? I quickly realized that it would be nearly impossible to get my family and older friends to call me anything other than “Beth” so I just went along with telling new friends and family (Myk’s family) that my name is “Lyz.” Now remember online friends calling me “Leia”? Well I was at a lan party a couple weeks ago (the new years eve one) and a real life friend of mine called me “P L 2”!!! I have been officially deemed a real-life acronym, hee. Granted, I chat with this friend as well (in a chat room made up of all real life friends), and when playing games at the lan party I am always “PrincessLeia2” or “pleia2” *shrugs* Still, it was a new and interesting experience %) Anyway, now I have this problem of responding whenever anyone says “Lyz” “Beth” “Leia” “PL2” … and it causes strange, confusing situations, like the other day when I called Myk… the first voice message I left on it I said “hi baby, it’s beth…” and the second said “hi myn, it’s lyz…” … I am already messed up enough without having issues about what I should call myself ;)

Wow, that went on longer than I expected, hehe… Ummm… so I cleaned the apartment this morning, same old friday morning thing, I even got around to cleaning off some of the dirt scrape marks off the walls, I dont know how the walls get dirty but they do… and of course I ran into the problem “if you clean a spot you have to clean the whole wall” UGH! Hehe… I used windex on the wall
s too, they are all white walls, but not perfectly white, they are sorta off-white I guess so I didn’t want to use the bleach cleaner we have… anyone have any bright ideas on what would be wiser to use than windex? I actually don’t mind cleaning, sure I never want to get out of bed and use energy ;) but it does help clear my head (or maybe that’s the bleach? Hee), and it’s quite relaxing in a way.

I finished Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery last night, that’s the 3rd book I’ve finished since writing my last review, not unusual for me %) I should type up those reviews in the near future, and possibly make a second book page for books i’ve read in 2003.

I dunno what I’ll do today, I think I am going to look at some sed and awk books that Myk has and see how I can work on changing the name of a directory on my webpage and then changing every single document that points to that directory to a different directory without having to open every single .html and .php file on my webpage to do it manually (that would literally take DAYS). Fun fun, but I really hate the MyImages directory, and it’s silly to have an almost empty /images directory right above it.

Right, so I am going to TRY to get some work done today, yay it’s friday!!!!

Hmm, my premium subscription to this runs out today, sad… but I dont have the money to continue it, and I am not excited enough about the ‘features’ of premium to keep it even if I did, oh well… *wanders off*

Gah, today is even worse than yesterday as far as getting work done is concerned %)

I love getting stuff in the mail, I got my Disney Day’s calendar from my sister yesterday… it’s one of those day-to-day calendars, and she gets one for my every year for Christmas, this year she actually asked me if I still wanted one, well of course! *grins*

Today I finally got the second half of my shipment from bn.com.. and it totally rocks. See I didn’t want to spend $25 on the “Platinum Edition” of Beauty and the Beast (yes, the Disney movie), so I just bought the normal, one-dvd version for $18. Then I get a mail about the DVD being “currently out of stock” … great, but then about a day later they say it had been shipped, yay! So I finally get the dvd today, open up the box, and it’s the “Platinum Edition”!!! I pulled out the reciept real quick to make sure they didnt charge me extra, nope! I even went to the site to make sure I wasnt completely mistaken… nope! This rocks! Now that I have this version I am really glad I got it instead of the boring normal one.

So I was sitting in chat today, not really doing anything (shut up, hehe) and this person comes onto the clockbot.net server (which is strange unto itself since not many people know about that server) and joins #linux … a room I chat it, which is strange AGAIN because that room doesn’t get a great deal of traffic. And so this guy comes in and asks “are you a member of PLUG?” … I’d expect this on freenode since the PLUG room is there, but not on psiblade!!! After I recovered from my shock I said I was.. then he explained that he found the server through the PLUG website, which is interesting, I assume he meant through the “plug how-to archive” which is linked to phillylinux.org .. and hosted by clockbot. It’s still interesting that he found minute.clockbot.net from here, since I don’t think that is listed anywhere, but maybe he could have just typed in clockbot.net as the ircserver and it found it? Who knows! This guy sounded pretty cool tho, 19 and from a part of Philly I have never heard of (that doesnt say much, still dont know the area well)… It was nice talking to a new person tho, it’s not terribly often that we get new chatters in psiblade, and even less often that we get *intelligent* new chatters, heehee.

Um, I am done noew. *wanders off again*

o/` Barenaked Ladies – Powder Blue o/`

Yesterday was much better than the previous days. I didn’t really get much done, but I wasn’t depressed like I have been.

I got sorta bored and decided to clean out the drawers of my desk. I am such a terrible packrat, and when it comes to my computer desk I have never been very neat %) I suppose if I had 50 drawers I could be neater, I never seem to have enough room so I resort to stuffing things in the drawers. So I resolved to clean them out. The funniest part of this was when I was going through all the computer documentation… I have this habit of putting ALL my computer manuels and such together, so I have this big pile of unrelated some VERY old computer documentation, the gem of this search? I found install directions for Myst on win 3.1 hah! I did manage to clean the drawers out tho, and I put some of the stuff into boxes in the laundry room (where all sorts of stuff is stored). My drawers are all clean noew %)

So while putting away my drawer stuff, I once again thought about how much of a terrible packrat I am. I really have gotten better over the years, but I still have BOXES of Star Wars and Disney toys, as well as hundreds of odds and ends that I just can’t seem to part with, no matter how slim the chance is that I will find some use for them in the future. Like my Magic cards… while my toys might find a home of their own in a special room of my house, I can’t say that there is a very good chance I will ever play Magic again, but alas, I keep my cards around for “someday” … I think my problem is I get emotionally attached to my things, I really am a materialist unforutnately. Lucky for us Myk is not a packrat at all.

I decided to go into windows yesterday to install MS Office so I could go through some of the old floppy disks I have from high school. I was looking for one specific file, and I have TONS of floppys.. and I would have looked at them all in linux, but OpenOffice isn’t happy with all 3424 different file formats I used while in high school %) So I go to windows, install MS Office and go through my files… of course I never found the one I was looking for (a George Lucas film study paper I wrote my senior year), but I did find a few other short things that I had written about random historical figures that I thought would be cool to put on my site, if for no other reason than the internet needed more information about these people %)

I also started cleaning up my /html directory on my site… I still had some old files in there from php nuke that I needed to get rid of, and I kept the /html/themes/princessleia2/style directory because all my pages were still pointing to the .css file in there. So I went to every page on my site and pointed them to the correct .css file in /html … I finished that this morning, it took a very long time since there were also a few other changes i needed to make… like making my princessleia.com image ‘link’ on every page border=”0″ … and add the body tag where I had forgotton it… amazingly enough w3c.org WILL validate the page fine if you forget a body tag even if you use /body at the end of the document! Strange. Anyway, I made my site much better now… I also found a bunch of pages that I made for all sorts of reasons (picture pages and such that I made and sent the links to friends, hardware pages to describe my computers, etc) that I never got around to linking back to the main site, so in all I guess I added something like 7-8 little sections to my site yesterday, fun fun.

I guess that’s all I want to write for noew *wanders off*

I was going to work on my website right? I was going to acomplish something today so I dont feel depressed right? I was going to… oh… *quiz* … Looks like I am not getting work done AGAIN %(!

“The lesson today is how to die…”

Which Strange Little Girl would you be?

This quiz made while Angel was procrastinating her ass off.

You are the kind of person who always used to ask why, until your parents screamed “Because I said so, now shut up!”. You’re always seeking answers to ever question, solving every puzzle. You also have a strong sense of justice, and believe that ultimately people should pay for their crimes. At the same time, you do hold compassion for those who act out of pain, which creates an inner struggle. How does one judge someone and simultaneously understand why they have done wrong? It’s a balancing act, and weighs heavy on your mind, particularly when judging yourself. Sometimes, there is no answer to a question, which disturbs you. Your goal in life should be to seek a happy medium between ‘an eye for an eye’ and ‘forgive and forget’. Not everything can be black and white, right and wrong. Don’t fear the grey. Trust your intuition, because it’s usually right.

This description is very interesting, since I was sorta struggling with the “justice” thing a couple days ago in an entry…