Mediaeval Baebes – Aria (with Delerium)

I changed the look of my site here, I wanted to make all my sites sorta look the same, this one looks much more like princessleia.com now.

Nut of the week? Well that award has to go to Mr. Charles K. Johnson he believes the world is flat:

The Flat-Out Truth

“Not the Bible but Johnson’s own common sense allowed him to see through the globe myth while he was still in grade school. He contends that sensible people all over the world, not just Bible believers, realize that the earth really is flat.” Yeah, he’s a christian. %)

French’s yellow mustard no icky crust cap is nice, but unfortunately it’s not perfect, doh.

I’ve been working on my Books page and it is all nice and arranged now so it is easy to navigate %) I have it set up so you can browse the reviews by author or title. I’ve been thinking lately about all the books I’ve read in the past few years and how sad it is that I do not have reviews, and I have tons of time to read so I think I am going to read a few books over again. i’d really nice to read the Homecoming series by Orson Scott Card again (unfortunately I don’t have book 1, doh!), and the first two discworld books… Anyway, this afternoon I am going to try to get the whole “gimmie money” part of the Books page done (Barnes and Noble Affiliate program). Yay for capitalism. What can I say, Barnes and Noble rocks, they have saved me lots of money, and they arent evil like Amazon %)

I did get a little work with PHP done yesterday. I thought about making an easy way to post updates to my site using php, but then remembered that that would mean I’d have to have a site on the web to edit my site.. which means unless very carefully password protected someone could easily find that page and mess with my site. That’d suck. So for now I will just do little php things. I already have the little counter on my page… and yesterday in the top part that has a quote I made it so each time you go to the page you get a different quote (well probably, there are 15 of them there currently and it randomly selects one when you go to the site).

I spoke to my Aunt Elaine last night. She called me on her cellphone because she gets free evening and weekend long distance on it… and of course she just happened to call right when I was sitting down to eat dinner %( I didn’t want to be rude, and I definately didn’t want to pay for a call back (I hate the phone as it is, I dont want to pay for it!) so I ended up talking to her and stuff while Myk ate dinner and mine got coldish (we had Boca Burgers). It’s always nice talking to her, she tells me all about all the current family gossip (ugh) and she’s just all around nice to talk to since we are so much alike. Apparently half the family is not talking to the other half about something, who knows the whole story but it’s just a big mess. In any event I’ll just stay with my Aunt Elaine while up there and try to stay out of the middle of everything %) It should be a fun trip, and we are planning to see Star Wars Episode 2 in the IMAX while we are up there, yay! Speaking of Episode 2, no, I don’t have the DVD yet, and yes, I know it came out this week, I’ll probably ask my ma to get it for my for christmas or something.

Tomorrow night we are going to a birthday party for a couple we know. They just got married a few weeks ago, and they have the same birthday, so they are celebrating with a double birthday party %) It should be fun, and Myk went out and picked up some La Chouffe (8% alcohol yay) .. a case of the huge magnum bottles (50.8 oz each), whee! %) Anyway it’ll be fun to go to a little party with some of our friends.

I am going to go take a walk now *wanders off*

-@Time- hmmm, if the aryan group had its own KDE program, would it be called KKKK

hehe

blue plastic wrap is leet … and the same price as clear plastic wrap (at least where i shop), yay!

Foo Fighters – Walking After You

So it has recently come to my attention that Eminem has a movie?! AND it was at the top of the box office this past weekend!? What is wrong with this world? Waaaay too many wiggers and posers out there, and I hate them all %) Including my little sis, arg! 13 years old, lives in MAINE, loves rap, and “talks like black girls talk” … I will never get over my disappointment. Yes, I live under a rock.

I don’t look 14 in that pic I have here do I? A person in #goddess said I did… I tend not to believe him, but I *did* get ID’ed for the last Rated R movie I went to. *shrugs* Then again I have seen some 14 year olds who look older than I am, gah.

Clockbot (the win2k print/scan server) is still off today. Apparently there was some sort of IDE error when Myk tried to boot him up the other night %s He hasnt had a chance to look at it. Last night he got home around 8ish (he had a dr’s appointment).. so we didnt eat til about 8:30, then of course we had barely any food in the house so I went grocery shopping. Finally I came home around 10ish and decided I wanted to monopolize Myk’s time by cuddling and watching a movie with him, so it wasnt til midnight that he was able to get on his computer (besides the time I spent grocery shopping). So hopefully tonight he will get clockbot running so I can mess around with printing again tomorrow. I think today I am gonna mess around a bit with PHP, it’d be really nice to utilize more php on my website, and since I stopped messing with it for about a month I’ve forgotton a bunch of what I knew, doh %( I should really stop messing around (like writing in my weblog and chatting, DOH!) and get more work done so all my time spent on the computer is not completely wasted.

I love Debian!

apt-get is the greatest things ever %)

Ok, going to get some work done noew *wanders off*

Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up

So this day was almost completely full of disappointments. For one it turns out that 21″ flatscreen monitor seems to have some problems with color… something that the PLUG post neglected to mention. The guy selling it said it could “probably be fixed with realignment or something” Heh, well I really don’t have $300 to spend on “probably” I am very demanding on my monitor, and there is no way I am paying for a monitor with messed up color.

I played with printer settings on my computer for almost 2 hours today, very frustrated that nothing was working. Then I wandered over to the printer computer. It wasn’t on. AHHH!!!! I guess it was my own stupid fault for not checking a problem that obvious, but it’s rare that clockbot is turned off %( I forgot that Myk removed a harddrive from it last night, he must just have left it off, doh!!! So I was frustrated again and quit that.

SO I decided “hey how about I install my apache server and php4 so I can get some work done with php” (I would do it on the webserver, but I dont like messing with things there, besides I dont have root access so I wouldnt be able to mess around with mysql there). So I install apache, then install php4. Then spend a little over an hour figuring out what I did wrong and why it wasnt working %) Eventually I found it was just I added something in the wrong place of the httpd.conf file, and it was all fixed. So now I have Apache and PHP running nicely on my system, and the best part is I can run apache and it doesnt hurt preformance! In fact, I can run TONS of stuff and it doesnt hurt too much, which of course is no help considering how absent-minded I am. I have 9 virtual desktops, and sometimes I *forget* about things I have running, at one point today I had gimp and idle xmms running as well as mpg123 and mozilla, and opera, and all my chat sessions…. you get the point %) Since these things dont slow down my system anymore I forget they are running. *Huggles her computer*

It’s only 4:30, I think I am going to do an overhaul of my Books.html on my website, it really needs it… I actually sent someone I sorta know from a chat room (the chat room where we chat with people IRL.. I am sorta shy so I dont often chat there), and he was interested in my reviews! Of course the page is a mess, and I felt bad. So since at least one person is interested in that page it’s worth fixing. I feel really good today, despite my failures I really did get a bit acomplished, if only everyday could be so sucessful %)

Barenaked Ladies – Powder Blue

Why don’t I use xanga’s nice little amazon linked “now listening to” thing? AMAZON IS EVIL!!! They sued Barnes And Noble over “patented” click and buy ordering, which allows a company to hold credit card information and such in a database on the website so the buyer does not need to retype everything every time. Now sure, I am sure amazon just did this to try and hurt one of their biggest competitors, but they hurt all businesses on the net! Luckily the lawsuit failed %) But still…

NoAmazon.com for more information.

So I was going crazy yesterday afternoon trying to get printing set up in my box… I guess I can say I made some progress because I know some of the things “not to do” I still have yet to download that deb package for printtool… only as a last desperate resort %) I dont want to cheat! Hehe.

I dont want to get too excited about this yet… but a guy posted to the PLUG list about having a 21″ flat-screen monitor that he wanted to get rid of, and he’s trying to sell it for $300. We’re going to make him an offer, Myk said he’d pay for half of it if I’d dip into my savings to pay for the rest, no problem!!! 21″ would kick ass %) especially compared to the old Compaq 13″ one I have now. Hopefully we were the first to respond to this… we were disappointed early this summer when we thought we were the first to respond to someone selling a Sparc 10 only to find out someone else got to it first %( *hopes she gets this monitor* if not we will keep sorta looking, I can survive with this little one for now %)

After I got frustrated to the point of giving up on printing yesterday I took a short walk. Which turned out not to be so relaxing because I couldnt stop thinking about things I had to worry about, I am such a worrier. Then I got home, completely unrelaxed, and still not in the mood to mess around with samba, so I wandered around checking out some deb packages through apt-cache search. I found this one for xmms which is “tux dancing” … but it turned out to be really lame %( Then I downloaded xsnow and xpenguins, which I had had in the past, just never had a chance to download… I know there is an xfishtank too, but it’s sorta lame.. anyone know of others? %) Here’s a link to a screeny shot of penguins and snow on my desktop if you wanna see it %):

xpenguins and xsnow

I also spent some time and redid my user apps menu, I am using the “base” theme on my desktop, the menu doesnt look so great in that theme but the rest of the desktop does so I can handle it.

user_apps.menu
Last night we had some perogies and veggies for dinner, each had a bottle of yummie Lindemen’s Kriek, and then sat down and watched the second movie on our new mst3k tape, “Teenage Caveman” … it was pretty funny, especially since the teenager was like… 30, hehe. Speaking of Lindenmen’s, we broke our “we should not go out to dinner much anymore” rule again and went out for an expensive dinner at the Drafting Room. It was really good tho %D! I was able to try some of the Peach Lindemen’s, it was really good, where the cherry is very cherry, the peach was subtle, really a nice taste. I think next time we get a case we’re going to try to get half peach and half cherry %)

So I think I am going to go attempt to once again tackle this printing problem, wish me luck! *wanders off*

Moody Blues – Dawn Is A Feeling

I started some work on trying to get printing to work here in Debian. See the dilemma is the print server is a Windows 2000 box (only because our scanner does not have linux drivers, so it NEEDS to run on windows, bleh, stupid cheap HP scanner), so I am trying to figure out a happy moderately simple way to get my Debian box to print to it. Now when I had Red Hat this was not a problem %) Redhat makes it very easy with their happy clicky printtool. A .deb package exists for this, so I considered going that route, but I dunno… %( Bleh there are a bunch of how-to’s online that I have been looking at, it’s all so confusing, most of them involve samba, and I know *nothing* about samba, yay! Heh. This is a good project for me tho, I’ll probably learn a lot through this %)

So I found out some bad news this afternoon. Eric’s boyfriend, who we met a few weeks ago when Eric was in town, has been diagnosed with MS. %(!!! This really gets me down… it seems MS strikes the coolest people. Ray was definitely cool, he was in college for a Biotech degree and everything, seemed really smart, and funny… and I know my best broski Eric really cares about him. Apparently the medication they put you on when diagnosed has been known to cause depression, that’s exactly what someone needs when they are diagnosed with an incurable disease % I guess he’s hanging in there, some good days and some bad. It is sad tho…

I ordered some books from bn.com today %)

Hearts In Atlantis – i’m not a huge Stephen King fan, and i never saw the movie, but people recommended this to me, and they have over-stock on this hard-cover edition, I’m getting it for $5.98
The Guns Of The South – As much as I am interested in “alternate history” novels I have never actually read any of Harry Turtledove’s books, amazingly enough… this seemed like a nice place to start, a time traveler goes back in time to the civil war and arms the soldiers with ak-47’s
Homebody – In an effort to broaden my Orson Scott Card collection I’m getting this book… I have yet to be disappointed by Card, and the last book I read of his (Treasure Box) was stellar.
Winter’s Heart – The 9th book in the Wheel of Time series, so I HAD to get it %)
Armor – This book by John Steakley got such rave reviews from a friend of mine I completely forget what it’s about, hehe, but I am sure it’ll be good.. and more scifi than fantasy, so a nice divergence from what I’ve been reading lately
When True Night Falls (coldfire trilogy #2) – I started reading the first book a couple days ago (recommended by the same person that recommended Armor), it’s quite good, so I figured I’d get the next book
Crown Of Shadows (coldfire trilogy #3) – And the third book %)

Myk asked for his thanksgiving vacation time today %) made plans for his Christmas vacation as well, yay! So for thanksgiving he is taking the day before (Wednesday the 27th) off, and the Monday following. We’ll probably drive home Sunday evening, and use Monday to rest… or might drive back Monday morning to avoid some of the holiday traffic *shrugs* I guess we’ll play it by ear %) For Christmas he is getting that whole week off! Which makes sense since Christmas is on a Wednesday, it would be silly to go to work on Monday after a weekend now wouldnt it? And working thursday and Friday after Christmas, bah! %) (they automatically get Christmas eve and Christmas off). It should be a nice couple of months, I love this time of year.

Anyway, I am gonna get going.. It’s after 4:30 (stupid Monday!!!) and I havent gotten as much done as I would have liked to today, AGAIN, doh. *wanders off*

Jimmy Eat World – No Sensitivity

So I started a livejournal, the entrys here and there will probably be identical after this %) I have friends in both places so it seems logical right? Anyway, I got the livejournal code so I could get a free account. I then contacted my ma’s old friend Ellie (they stopped being friends after the divorce I guess… heh) ’cause I knew she had a private livejournal to tell her I had one. She asked me if I had paid for the premium service and of course I didnt… I’ve been at xanga for months and I still dont pay for it, besides Livejournal doesnt have ads, not even on the free sites! So there was really no reason for me to pay for it. So she offered to give me 2 months (it’s like $5) I told her no, but she did it anyway, gah! Said I would really like it, ’cause I could customize stuff, and plus if she had questions with premium she said she would use me as a question answerer, hehee. But it is only two months, and if I want it longer than that I have to pay for it, so I’ll just become a normal free user after that. I played with it a bit this morning, it’s interesting, but I wouldnt pay for any online journals… sorry xanga, this is merely convenient for me, I could always put a journal on my own page %)

I finished the 7th Wheel of Time book on friday night, and then finished another book yesterday (I had a lot of time and it was a good book), so I have reviews of them now.

Book 7: A Crown Of Swords, By Robert Jordan, 880 pages
Again Jordan weaves a masterful tale in this 7th book of his Wheel Of Time series. Probably the most significant, or at least interesting, information in this book is the elaboration of information about the Seachan people. It’s very interesting to learn these peoples’ intentions, as well as seeing the characters’ reactions to the new and exotic beats brought by them. An important discovery is made that the fate of the world depends on, and we are left with a bit of a cliffhanger as to the fate of one of the characters. Also a few more of the prominent Black Ajah are revealed. Very good book, and didn’t seem to slow down like the previous book.

Myth Directions/Hit Or Myth, By Robert Asprin, 329 pages
This is book 3 and 4 of Asprin’s Myth series in one book. This book still follows the story of the magicians apprentice Skeeve, and a colorful cast of Demons (Dimensional Travelers). The first story brings Skeeve to a strange dimension where a game decides the ruling city of a land. Of course our young apprentice gets mixed up in it all… The second story is much more elaborate and I liked it more, Skeeve and his friends get involved with a reluctant king, a homicidal queen, and even the mob. Asprin’s sense of humor again caused me to laugh out loud a few times, while his wonderfully original cast is witty and lovable. A great book.

I think I am going to order more books tomorrow.. I have 1 on my shelf that I havent read, and I just started another last night, but I want to get my new box of books before we go up to my Aunt’s for thanksgiving (it’d suck if they sat on my doorstep for 5 days)…

So I had a lousy bad dream last night. It started out with me going back to the town I lived at with my ex… only it wasn’t that town, all the people were the same, but it was more like a city, really strange. I spent most of the dream avoiding my ex, and hanging out with all my old friends… there was this mall too, and in the middle of the spiral staircase between floors there was this HUGE model of the earth. Very strange, I dont have any idea where I got THAT from. Anyway as this huge long dream progressed (I woke up several times from it but always fell back to sleep into the dream) I met up with a few old friends from high school, including Leslie, who for some reason or another hated me. It was all very strange… in part of this dream there was an underground bar, that you could only access with a key… and in another part there was a grocery store that we couldnt park next to so I had to walk through the rain with all the grocerys to my car because no one would help me. Yeah, weird random stuff. I don’t know what I was thinking when I went to bed o_O

We took pictures of our computers last night (since my computer is all upgraded and everything is pretty and perfect now, hehe… So this is r2d2 %)

We have the rest of the pictures up on a little site I put together last night: Time And PrincessLeia2’s Computers. The only ones not on there are second (because he was dismanteled at the time), and the cobalt (our webserver), which is at the colo and I have never actually seen it before.

In other news… on monday of last week (Myk’s first day back from vacation!) there was a meeting to tell the employees that most of them would be laid off come early March. This is bad of course because Myk took this job because he assumed it was a nice big company that would give him a stable income, hah! Is anything stable anymore in the tech industry? Apparently not. So this whole week has been rather stressful for him. He’s updated his resume and has applied to a couple jobs, but it’s quite possible that he will not be making as much as he was. (anyone hiring? %D http://michael.bevilacqua.us) And sure, we can survive if he made less, but we’d have to avoid most of the dinners we have out, and cut our spending everywhere a lot. So I’m considering getting a part time job at LEAST. I told him that last night, and he still is playing the “I want to take care of you” role of an italian male, hehe… still he did admit that if his next job doesnt pay as much it would be helpful for me to find something “but only when I know that! And definately not before Christmas!” Hehe… Like I said before, he’s not against me getting a job, I can if I want to, he just doesnt want me to feel the NEED to get a job, and of course he wants me always to be home when he is, hehe. I dunno, maybe a part time job would be good for me, at least with that I’d look forward to my time on the computer and I’d probably utilize it better.

Yeah, so I am gonna go now, I think I’ll go through my wishlist on bn.com and see what I really want to get this time around… anyone have suggestions of good books? %)

ROTFLMAO

Frank Sinatra – Night And Day

This entry will be relatively short %) Last night we got everything put together on my system! %)! It all is working really well. I played UT last night and I really cant believe I suffered with my slow system before! UT looks sooo much better. I am gonna try to install ut2k3 later and see how that goes. I stayed up really late last night ’cause I was so excited to use it, and then woke up early this morning to play with it more. But I think I am ok now and I am going to go crawl back in bed ’cause I’m freaking tired! Hehee.

I’m so happy!!! *Huggles her computer then wanders back to bed*