Wow, I was really bumming in that last blog yesterday… I feel better noew %) I’ll probably take Leslie’s advice and just go out for dinner tomorrow, have a drink there. I am thinking of going to Unos.. ordering a cheesey deep dish pizza, and some sort of disgustingly sweet/strange alcoholic drink… and top it all off with a brownie sundae. That would be good.

Of course we haven’t heard back about the house yet. No doubt the relocation company doesnt do anything on weekends so it’ll be next week before we hear anything. I guess Myk wants to get me a motherboard and processor if we don’t get the house, but I was thinking about it recently and there *are* games that would work better if I had a faster processor, but I am really content with it right now. What I REALLY want is a certain domain name (which will remain unnamed until I buy it because I can hardly believe it is unowned). If we register through gandi.net it’s only $10.. and we still have that part of the cobalt put aside for the now gone princessleia2.com so it wouldn’t be *too* much work.

I dunno what we’ll do today, prolly nothing.. we have to swing by blockbuster and return a video (an mst3k movie… “Mitchell”), but other than that I think we’ll just chill.

I got a birthday present from my mom yesterday %D!

It’s a supplimental book to the Wheel Of Time series, really interesting… and it has lots of pictures %D hehe. It only covers up to book 7 (book 10 is coming out in november) but since I am only on book 6 that’s ok… it wont give away much if I start reading through it now. It gives lots of in depth information about the history and stuff… really cool, and gives me a much better “picture” of the whole Wheel Of Time world… wow, I don’t think I have ever been so into a series before…

Anyway, I guess I’m gonna go read for a while *wanders off*

Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals

So I called the realtor this morning… she says “two other people put a bid in at the same time as you did” luckily we were one of the two high bids, but since there were multiple bids it has to go to the relocation company for review before we know if we got it or not. THAT SUCKS. See my 21st birthday is on sunday. We were hoping to know about the house by today, so if we got the house we could celebrate my birthday here at home, not do much (since we’d be poor because we are buying a house!)… and if we didn’t get the house we were gonna be all depressed and get completely trashed spending outragous amounts of money on alcohol on my birthday. Now we won’t know which to do!!! Damn, I wish this wasnt all happening around my birthday %( Noew I have to have a boring birthday no matter what. St00pid house people!

Madonna – Frozen

So we didn’t hear from our realtor yesterday… I’m not sure why she just *wouldnt* call us after finding out from the realtor selling the house if we got it or not… prolly the answer came later last night and she didn’t want to wake us up or something by calling late? Gah.. I’ll call her this morning once I wake up o_O

So you know those people who just “hate their birthday so much” that they are offended and even mad when you go out of your way to celebrate their birthday? I HATE that! Like yesterday, a friend of mine was turning 32… maybe not a wonderful age, but he certainly isn’t old… I made him an ecard (hosted on my website so no spam), made a topic in a room to celebrate his birthday, and then when I saw him yesterday evening in chat I said “Happy Birthday!” And what do I get? No comment about the ecard… a change of topic in the room celebrating his birthday, and a “Leia.. don’t remind me” when I wished him happy birthday in the channel. Bleh… I don’t know why I try so hard (%

So about that irc network stat generating stuff I was working with yesterday, I found nothing that I could really use for what I want to do. So it was back to trying to make an irssi perl script for pulling the /luser stats from the server. Well that was an absolute failure %) I am not very good at perl you see, and so anything in perl is a bit of a struggle… so I discovered the function “sleep” which is supposed to put the script to “sleep” for a given number of seconds, and in effect working sorta like a timer… I’d create an infinate loop, and at the end I’d put the sleep function, so before starting the loop again it’d stop for … say.. 15 seconds. Well I had a lot of trouble with that for 2 reasons. For some reason (whether it was irssi or something inherent in irc servers I dont know), even when I was doing a test, having the client say “hi” every 15 seconds it would show up to others about 5 times, after that it would continue to say “hi” but I wouldnt be able to see it as another chatter… very strange. Plus, I discovered that the sleep function puts the entire irssi program to sleep! I am not sure why, I only wanted the script to stop, but it makes irssi completely unresponsive, I cant switch windows, or even close it without a kill… it seriously sucks. I tried looking around CPAN for another way to write a “timer” but sleep was the only function I found… SO I decided to give NET::IRC another try. Ugh. I only worked with it for about an hour yesterday, was able to actually connect to a server with the correct nickname, username, etc… but each time I try to get it to do something (like joining a room) I get errors. I was probably just tired and stressed out yesterday tho, I’ll give it another shot today.

Anyway, it’s friday, and that means it’s cleaning the apartment day. So I’ll go do that, then call the realtor if she hasn’t called by the time I’m done… I’ll post later to give news of the house bid status %)! *wanders off*

Peter Murphy – Dragnet Drag

I’m stressed out %(

We havent heard back about the house yet… but it’s only 11 and they have til 5 to tell us if we got it or not *sigh* We were looking over paperwork and stuff last night, it’s all so expensive… we’ll be able to pay it all, but it’s kinda scary (for me anyway) to be so responsible… the mortgage will be a little more expensive than what we pay for rent here, so our standard of living really shouldnt change much, it’s just when you own a house there are so many things you have to worry about. I guess I’d be nervous if we were millionares too %) In some ways I really don’t want our bid to go through because then we would stay here another year, putting off all this work just that much longer, afterall, I am the Princess Of Procrastination %D

Well to get my mind off all this I was playing around with some irc network stat generating things. One of them uses the Round Robin Database, but doesnt seem to want to work properly.. messed with that for WAY too long yesterday, hehe… I just stumbled upon this other one that uses the MySQL database (that I have been doing some work with recently) to collect ircstats… it’d be my job to write up the php to interpret the info, it might be a kewl project! And I would learn a ton more about php and mysql.

Gah anyway I’m gonna go wander off and hope that I get that call about the house soon… I don’t know what I want the response to be, but either way I’m sure I will be quite relieved when the call comes…

The Cars – Since You’re Gone

Yeah, The Cars… I was at a keg party once and they were playing an old vinyl of The Cars and I realized how cool they were and downloaded a bunch of their mp3s when I got home, hee.

I had a really REALLY strange dream last night. See I think I lived in a mixture of this apartment and the apartment I lived in above a liquor store in Seneca Falls… which is strange because the difference between the two is just so vast that it could only be captured in a dream. Anyway apparently I was living with my mother, and I was in the kitchen doing dishes, and listening to Fisher, when my mom comes in the front door and yells at me for listening to “The Devil’s Music so loud that the whole neighborhood could hear it” Then went on to tell me that she was trying so hard to get back into the Christian lifestyle and I was countering her every move at it.

Yes, very odd.

I am not sure where this dream came from, I guess I was thinking of calling my ma and telling her we put a bid in on a house… and monday Myk made a comment about all the churches in the area we are moving to… and I dunno, OH! During part of the dream Mr Bones (the cat I had with my ex) was walking around and I was cleaning his dish… That must be from Myk and I talking about getting a kitten when we get a new house… I was missing my other kitten %(!

Anyway, I told Myk last night that we shouldn’t talk about “which would be our room” and “which would be the computer room” and “where the cat little box would go”…. until we knew we got the house. I’m just terrible with jinx’ing these things with my excitement… did I ever mention I’m superstitious like that? Heh… so instead I am thinking of all the bad things about buying this house. And I will list them here to convince you (who reads this?!) and myself that they are real concerns.

1. the yard is really small, I like big yards, and because of the lack of space there is a pretty good chance we won’t be able to get a dog (Myk wants a dog…). 2. Owning a home is freaking expensive! We will run into this whenever we buy a house, but as of noew the mortgage is $200 more a month than our rent here. Now of course we will get by… and I will be close enough (about a mile from) to places where I can get a part time job, but still, I will work and we will maintain this same standard of living… 3. The house is in an area that is a bit more populated than I would have liked 4. There is unfinished work to the attic above the garage, and neither of us are good at “carpentry” work… it will need to be finished. 5. The fireplace is a propane fireplace instead of a real one with wood and stuff.

Ok enough talking about the house.

Besides that strange dream I guess I slept alright most of the night.. that is until I woke up just after 7 really thirsty (I keep a glass of water by my bed, but I apparently had drank it all throughout the night)… plus I was sneezing and coughing because they are doing the yardwork outside today… I am so allergic to cut grass (oh! there is another reason, we’d have to get a lawnmower and cut our own grass! hehe). So I got up, got a glass of water, took some Benadryl and crawled back into bed.. not falling back to sleep of course, ugh.

Right, so a little note on the move of my irc channel #13thHour. I was concerned that moving it to another server would “kill” the room… I couldn’t have been more wrong! Strangely enough emailing everyone and telling them about the change has pulled a bunch of people back, it’s much more active than it’s been in MONTHS… I’m really happy about that, I was concerned that the room was going for a serious slump again. Unfortunately we have lost a couple people… but I had to expect that. It’s ok, I really am pleased with how the move has gone… I ended up leaving r2d2 on scifi, in a #13thHour moderated room, if any of his “friends” comes in he -notices- them telling them to go to the new server. And anyone else coming in just will leave… in any event no one gets voice (% So it keeps the room from migrating back. I dunno when/if I’ll ever shut down r2.. I am so paranoid that someone will open in up as a ‘joke’ or whatever… gah… I care about irc too much!!! Hehee

Last night we had our friends Mike and Nita over… they are really cool, another couple that met online, but like 4 years ago so they have been together for a while. We sat around and told them about the house we bid on, they seemed really happy for us after a quick “how long have you been looking? I HATE YOU!!!” (they have been looking for about a year apparently… we started looking in august). Hehe, all in fun tho… we went out to Olive Garden … it was ok, I got yummie eggplant parmesean %d my fave… it really turned out to be a nice night, afterwords we came back here and talked a little more, Myk showed them an episode of Harvey Birdman (click on “harvey birdman” to go to our download site for a funny episode!).. they liked it, hehe. Also Mike showed me a site he has on his server… password protected that he has a bunch of o’reilly text versions of books on, said he’d send me a login and password for it (% That should be kewl. Also we talked about our linking of our IRC server with the others (’cause Mike asked if we had gotten tired of the unstable scifi server yet)… he offered to help me with a perl script to graph the data about usage on the network %D I would write a perl script in r2 to run the /lusers command every 5 minutes or so, it’d grab the users # and the time and put it into a file that I could use for graphing. He said if I had a file then he could help me out with the graph writing part… that’d be kewl %) I think I will look into making the script today, it would be fun…

Anyway, I have stuff to do, and this blog has been freaking long, hee! *wanders off*

Fisher – Ordinary Moment

This song comes from a cd I got yesterday, an early birthday present %) It’s Fisher (http://www.digitalsound.net/). They had a song on the Great Expectations soundtrack, that’s where I heard them first.. then found out they were an mp3.com group. I have a few of their mp3s and honestly enjoyed them, so I figured since this two cd set was *only* $13.99 I could ask for it *shrugs* … Plus it’s signed:



I listened to the first disk this morning “Uppers” and found myself terribly disappointed. They are technically a “pop” band, but usually they arent so popish… the site says “The uppers are the upbeat tracks that make you dance and sing, a treat that will pleasantly surprise Fisher fans.” Heh… not a pleasant surprise %(!!! I really wasn’t happy with it. Luckily “Downers” makes up for it… the website saying: “And the downers are, of course, the songs that make listeners feel, those “reactive” songs that Fisher have become known for.” Known for and loved for! Gah, silly of them to make uppers, ish mostly icky.

So in other news we got to look at two houses since I last wrote. See we realized that if we were moving out of this apartment we’d have to give 60 days notice to the owner people. That means we either needed to find a house and make sure we can get it by October 9th… or stay here another year. Staying here another year would suck %(

So yesterday I redoubled my efforts for looking and actually stumbled upon something that looked nice. It had a fireplace, no loft, but it seemed alright. Called the agent and she said it was really great and she’d love to show it to us. While on the phone with her I mentioned another house I had seen online, the one with the fireplace and loft (i had called the realtor 3 times and left voicemail twice, plus an email… no response) so I figured it was worth a shot to ask her about it. She got really excited, saying it was just down the street from the other house and we’d LOVE it ‘caue it seemed to be exactly what we want. Then she said that an offer was being put in that day and would probably be accepted so we had to act right then. Unfortunately Myk had to work and couldn’t get out with that much short notice, plus to make the move on it we would have had to have mortgage stuff ready and make an offer then. SO we sighed and decided to give up on that one. Myk did call and get a mortgage pre approved however, so when we were ready we could grab what we wanted. Anyway, we ended up seeing that first house last night, it was decent, had a few problems but it was to be expected I suppose. It had a garage that was converted into a finished game room, and dispite the ground floor kitchen and bathroom needing some work we decided that it was mostly what we were looking for and we should probably bid on it. WELL Myk emailed the realtor this morning, saying that we really were interested in it… she called him back and guess what? The deal on the house with the loft fell through! AND the price was just lowered by 5 grand!!

Myk left work around 11:30, came to pick me up, and we went over to see the house with the loft. The carpeting was MUCH nicer than the other house. Everything was much nicer. The back yard was pretty small, but otherwise it was just so perfect… trees in the front yard, a cute little garden, newly redone windows throughout the house. It’s beautiful %)

So we went back to the realtor’s to make an offer… turns out it was owned by a guy Myk used to work with! Apparently he was fired recently and is relocating to florida, small small world %) It made us more sure about wanting the house noew, we know the REAL reason it is being sold… and Myk can even call the previous owner and ask him about it… Anyway it seems really nice, I dont want to get too excited about it ’cause whenever I do we end up unlucky… but we will know by thursday %)

Anyway, we are having a couple friends over tonight … prolly will go out for pizza or something, that’ll be kewl *yawns and wanders off*

Well we didnt go to that LAN party yesterday… we slept late and then with the heat and our allergies bothering us we decided it wasn’t really worth it, and we’d prolly just end up being crankie.

We did get irc.clockbot.net linked up with the other servers tho! I sent out an email last night as the “official announcement” of the room moving. So far it’s going over well.. except for a little episode last night…

See there is this script kiddiot, Yoshi, who used to chat on scifi, causing trouble and having a big ego about being “so into computers” He uses CompuServ and runs windows ME, need I say more? Yes, he is the typical 17 year old windows using, mirc loving monkey who thinks since he knows c++ and mirc scripting that he is so mighty. So somewhere along the line he developed this hatred for Myk. Now Myk doesnt have time to deal with kids like him, and tells him exactly that “go away you stupid windows monkey i have work to do” and Yoshi takes offense to this. So every chance he gets he comes into the room and “fights” with Myk “trying to see how much Myk really knows” … Now if you dont know this already, Myk has worked as a systems administrator at several companys in the past few years and currently works at a fiber optics company running their linux network and developing testing programs. So he has a normal job, and really only chats for fun, obviously doesnt have time for a windows monkey to come in and doubt what he knows. It’s all quite lame… So back to the point, Yoshi chats on a server linked to ours, he’s not an ircop or anything, but came into BOTH rooms we are in (deep13 and 13thhour) last night and caused a scene… asking why clockbot was linked, who gave him permission, then throwing around baseless accusations about how Myk “nukes” people and how he treats me badly. Now obviously to link a server you need permission of the servers being linked to, n stuff, so it was quite obvious that we did have full right to link. And about the treating me badly, wtf? He must be confusing Myk with my asshole of an ex.

Anyway, I had to deal with this stupid fight last night, and it sucked ’cause I was trying to read, when Myk comes in the room and was all “yoshi is trying to get us unlinked” Gah… eventually he left tho, hopefully he’ll just stay away. This was really upsetting to me because we did so much work to move the room, change our irc server to link up, and we thought this would be such a perfect place. I told the other ircops around that we didn’t know yoshi would freak about this (i didnt even know he chatted on the server much) and that we were all mature enough to just ignore problems with him… he just needs to keep his distance if he has a problem with us, not come in and start fights. It was pretty much agreed, and most people in #deep13 realize that he’s just a lamer anyway… so things are cool. Still it did upset me that all my work moving the room n stuff was threatened by one loser’s lameness.

Ugh, I wrote a lot about that %(

I didn’t sleep well last night… Because of the room crap I didnt even TRY to go to sleep til after 3 am anyway… I read for a while… tried to go to sleep… then my allergies started acting up, took some benadryl ’cause that usually makes me sleepy. It did and I fell asleep when Myk came to bed, I dunno.. must have been after 5 or something. Then I woke up at 7 with my left eye all tearing uncontrollably, stupid allergies! My eyes are still all teary. I did fall back to sleep for a couple hours, but finally around 11 I decided to get up.. I feel so tired %(

*Yawn* So have I mentioned yet what a disappointment the 6th Wheel Of Time book has been? I am about halfway through and it’s no where near as captivating as the other books have been, I find myself continually putting it down, and that’s sad… I guess this is what everyone means when they say the series gets dull %) Apparently I am not the only one to start getting bored at book 6…

Hmmm oh… heh.. the other night I asked Time to tell me about DNS… actually i said “Tell me a story about domain names” since I realized I never really learned much about the history of the system or how it currently works exactly. So Myk started explaining it to me, took about 20 minutes, and after I guess I had a bit of a puzzled look on my face so he got out his O’Reilly DNS and BIND book. It’s actually quite interesting… I’m surprised I survived previously without knowing it ;)

Anyway, I gotta go wander off to irc and teach everyone how to use nickserv n stuff… we are all such newbies at this! Being on crappy no services scifi for so long… hehe *wanders off*

Peter Murphy – Deep Ocean Vast Sea

Sooo drowsy. I finished the memebers sections on the #13thHour site… still some work that needs to be done tho…

Speaking of my beloved #13thHour… this morning the scifi server went down twice. First for about a half hour, then later for almost an hour… this has always happened every couple of weeks, but now it’s happening much more often… a bunch of rooms have left the server because of it’s problems, and #13thHour is one of the last of the “old rooms” to still be around. But since a couple weeks ago when scifi cancelled farscape the server has had 5 times the number of users coming on to support bringing farscape back… With this flood of so many new users the crappy scifi server cant handle it, it’s been going down 2-20 times a day since this started. Completely unacceptable if anyone wants to maintain an intelligent conversation. Plus there are no services on scifi… so there are problems with getting ops, reopening rooms… etc. And people who have already left are all “why dont you move #13thHour off that crappy server?” .. I was very reluctant, as scifi has been my main “home” for almost 4 years now… also there are are a few people who I know won’t follow to a new server (the scifi dedicated)… and some old friends that won’t know where to find us if we leave scifi.

The server’s instability finally won though, and we are moving. I spoked to shade (irc.mystic-net.org) and JoMomma (irc.mst3k.org … linked to shade’s server, where I chat in #deep13) and they said we could link irc.clockbot.net and bring #13thHour there. Now this is not completely abandoning scifi. Other channels.. #deep13, #bottestlab, and probably soon #pitchblack moved there, it’ll be like a mini-scifi… with only the kewl rooms… Most of the room members seem pretty happy about it that I’ve spoken to, but I have yet to make the final email announcement to all the members.. *sigh* It’ll be a big change, but for the better, we’ll have stability, chan/nick/memo services, working commands, all the things that make scifi lousy… I’m looking forward to it.

So when Myk comes home tonight we will talk about it, shade will help us link the servers…

I guess we’re planning on going to a LAN party this weekend *shrugs* people I dont know… some friends of Myk’s from work, I like lan parties and playing games, but I’m insanely shy and I havent met any of these people *sigh* I installed one of the games we’ll be playing Ghost Recon with the expansion pack, i dont know how to play yet ’cause I havent felt like playing games… it’s very odd, we bought Battlefield 1942 and I havent felt like playing it! %( I dunno why… it’s probably the benadryl making me sleepy and sluggish, Myk even asked me a couple of times this week if i wanted to play WarCraft 3 and I declined…

Gah anyway, it’s friday! %) I am gonna go read noew

Tori Amos – Enjoy The Silence

Too many people know about dot.tk

It was cool at first, instead of having the #13thHour webpage at princessleia.com/13thHour it was at simply 13thhour.tk and when I signed up a few months ago it was as fast as any other good forwarding service (that’s all dot.tk addresses do, unless you pay for them). But now, no doubt due to the popularity of “free domains” the service is very slow and really not worth it anymore. On dial up a friend of mine said it took about a minute for it to even find the page! On cable it takes upwards of 10 seconds… now I know this is free, I shouldn’t complain, so I am considering just doing away with it.. I could always get 13thHour.com if i wanted to pay upwards of £100! (how much is that in USD? like $165 or so? tooooo much).

Ok, enough complaining about free stuff. I am in the process of redesigning the #13thHour site however, and I’m quite pleased with how it’s coming along %) I’ll post the linky when I get it.

Ummm oh! It’s my broski Eric’s 21st birthday today!

Happy Birthday Eric!

Not that he reads this… hehe… still it’s the 19th, know what that means? Only 10 more days til my birthday! woohoo!!! 21 here I come %d *lines up the shot glasses in preparation*

Heh, we finally went grocery shopping last night… h8 grocery shopping. I wish it was all magical and the food just appeared in my house, it would save SO many headaches… i hate people… when I’m rich and famous I wont go grocery shopping anymore, I’ll make someone else do it for me! mwahaha! erm yeah. But we got home at like 8 from that.. and i hadnt eaten dinner yet… actually all I had eaten all day was a half of a slice of pizza, and I still wasn’t hungry. They should add Benadryl to any weight loss plan, it certainly kills my appetite… so much so that I even feel sick if I eat much. I guess it actually does suck since eating is good, and I am drowsy all the time from the benadryl as it is, I dont think not eating has helped my energy level at all, heh. The worst part about this all is I never used to get allergies at this time of year before this! Gah… st00pid pennsylvania, mark my words, I will NEVER move any further south than this!!!

So Myk is getting stressed out and wants to take a vacation. We were sorta planning on something this fall anyway, since the summer was so hot, and Myk hasnt had a real vacation in over a year (it was when he was between jobs…), he did take some time off when we went to see my family in maine, but you can hardly call “meeting the parents” a vacation now can you? Hehee… We’re thinking moutains, lakes, NO PEOPLE… *shrugs* we should plan soon tho, each day Myk is coming home more frustrated and stressed out than the previous, and we want to go somewhere before the holiday season. I told him he should take off time right after my brithday, and instead of getting me a big present for my birthday we could spend a really nice vacation somewhere. Of course he was like “NO! How about I get you something nice AND we have nice vacation” Gah… he’s so hopeless, I dont *need* anything, and I’d rather have a super vacation in the mountains and no presents, oh well… %)

Right so I’m gonna go do stuff noew… *wanders off*

No Doubt – New

Well I finished that irssi port of madragoran’s unmasking script for the scifi server:

http://www.princessleia.com/tools/shit-fi.txt
it uses a file called UNMASK.dat as well, loads it into an array, but I doubt anyone who reads this chats on scifi AND uses irssi %) dont know why i even post these things…

Anyway I did end up finishing the validating of html on my site yesterday %D! Now everything but the php nuke specific pages are w3c.org validated, yay! I am working on a new layout for the #13thHour page so I didnt bother to validate that, but otherwise it’s all pretty noew %)

Took Benadryl again today, they were mowing the lawn outside and it make me sooo sneezy, fun fun.. so now I feel better allergy wise but i’m all froozy, heehee *wanders off*