Fisher – February 1994

Yesterday we went out and did a few errands. Of course since we can’t seem to get out of the house (unless it’s an important appointment) before 5 we ended up leaving around 5:30 and hitting all sorts of crazy traffic. We wanted to go out to Hatboro Beverage and get some Lindenmen’s Kriek (cherry lambic, $110 for a case of 24 12oz bottles.. so only for special times, like vacation!), needed to go to staples to get some cd-r’s (there was a sale on them, $40 with a $20 rebate for 100.. we usually dont like staples), and needed to get a couple pumpkins. Easy right? HAH! It took about 2 hours, the traffic was insane, at one point we got in a HUGE line of traffic and it turns out there was an accident (we found out later, turned around to go a different route so we didnt have to wait)… So finally we get home and realize that we didn’t get a corkscrew! Our previous one broke under extreme circumstances (it was crappy and cheap and we were opening a wine bottle with wax and a cork on it)… so we had to go out again. I guess it was around 8 when we closed the door and said “no more!” hehe… I made Boca Burgers for dinner, the yummie veggie burgers since we dont eat beef. And that was good, after we sat and watched an episode of mst3k and drank the yummie cherry lambic, and that is when I realized I am not sure if I could actually get drunk off it… it is quite sweet, and only 4% alcohol, I am not sure I could drink a lot of sweetness, but hey I have the rest of the week to find out %D

So I have a little review of Mort now:

Mort, By Terry Pratchett, 242 pages

The 4th book in the Discworld series, this book focuses on a character that has been spoken about and even present in a few of the previous books, Death. Death recruits a young boy named Mort to be an apprentice. Death leaves his job to the boy when he decides that he wants to have a taste of what it’s like to be a human. And inevitably the boy makes a mistake and starts to unravel the fabric of time! This story of love, adventure and Death is definitely one of the funniest yet, I really recommend it, even if you have not read the other books in the series.

Stonyfield Farm strawberry yogurt is yummie. I went grocery shopping yesterday before all our errands and I hadn’t had yogurt in a long time and realized I missed it. Stonyfield Farm yogurt is special too, for a couple reasons… 1. it’s all natural 2. it’s got a cute cow on the front 3. I met the guy who drew that cow and he lives in my hometown! Yeah, I was taking an intro to pc’s class my senior year in high school (i needed tech credits, and didnt want something challanging) and it was a good excuse to bring a famousish local artist into class. He uses a Mac, like most graphical artists, and besides doing the art for Stonyfield Farm he also did a great deal of graphical stuff for some Mac magazine… pretty cool, especially since my hometown is pretty small. *Finishes her cup of yogurt* so you should all get this yogurt ’cause it’s yummie and fat free, and all natural n stuff.

Wow, I just wrote a paragraph about yogurt.

I dunno what we’re going to do for the rest of the week. Probably just hang out here, I have a few books on my shelves that I still havent read… I’ll probably get Myk to take me up to the mountains or something later this week so we can look at all the pretty leaves, since in this area it seems the leaves just turn yellow and fall off the trees, very boring… I am so spoiled by New England’s beautiful foliage I guess.

Yeah, this entry has now come to a boring natural end.

Dishwalla – Counting Blue Cars

I am not sure why I felt so awful yesterday morning. Maybe I was tired from the lan party on saturday, maybe I was a little depressed after writing that letter to my father in rehab, maybe it was just a hormonal imbalance that makes me feel bad sometimes for no reason. I really don’t have anything to be depressed about, and I honestly hate it when I feel depressed. I don’t have to work, and I’m well taken care of. I have a beautiful apartment, a loving and nurturing boyfriend, I’m relatively healthy, and so is all my family. I just feel so selfish when I’m depressed, I have so much to be thankful for and it’s like I take it all for granted and get self pitiful for no reason. Maybe I really do have some sort of chemical imbalance that makes me feel this way… I mean most of my mother’s family IS on some sort of anti-depressants, and they say things like this run in families, I am just reluctant to medicate myself… but maybe it is the right thing to do? Or maybe I am just not feeling fulfilled enough, maybe I should just get a job, even if it is part time at a store or something, I think I need more social contact than I get. Maybe that’s my problem? I have a lot of very good friends online.. and I am friendly to all Myk’s good friends, but in real life I am desperately lonely for companionship outside the realms of the relationship I have with Myk. Thanks for the comments yesterday, it’s nice to know that there are people who care %) and I am feeling much better this morning.

Yesterday afternoon a friend of ours invited us to go to an amusement part with them. It was the last day of vacation for him and his girlfriend so they wanted to do something, and the evening special at the park seemed like a good idea to them, from 4 to 7:30 (when the park closes) you can get a $10 pass to go on rides you want. It would have been fun to see them, but by the time we spoke to her it was already 3 in the afternoon and we weren’t even dressed yet. It wouldn’t have been til about 5 that we’d get to the park, so it wouldn’t end up being worth it… Ended up just staying home. Around 7ish Myk suggested we head up to Exton (about 45 minutes away) and check out the The Drafting Room location there (the local one is the one we went to on my 21st bday)… turns out they have the raspberry lambic that I like *on tap* (the cherry is my fave, but the raspberry isn’t bad). So we went up there, got lost getting there of course, lol, both Myk and I are masters at getting lost of course %) Ended up almost in Delaware before we turned around, almost gave up, then saw the exit we needed to take. So it was about 9:30 before we got there… the food and the drinks were great, the raspberry lambic on tap was really impressive, I had one of those, then a bottle of the cherry… we stayed there for a while, even had a cappuccino before leaving, in all it was a really nice evening.

So we came home and I watched adult swim (it was around 11:30 that we finally got home). I wandered in to look at chat and the irc server was all *down* Apparently the network admins on the other 3 servers we are linked to decided that they NEEDED to change the name servers last night, whether Myk (the owner of the hub, and most powerful connection of them all) was there or not. So the just disconnected our server and made the changes they needed to, so last night while Myk wanted to relax he had to fix everything on the server so it would be up again. It was all quite rude on the part of the fellow admins, couldn’t they have waited til they were all there? Or if that was difficult at least EMAIL each other to say when the change would take place? Honestly it was quite ridiculous. Anyway it took a couple hours to straighten the whole mess out, during which I wandered off to read for a bit. I finished Mort yesterday… I’ll post a review when I get a chance to write up one. Started reading Orson Scott Card’s Treasure Box yesterday, and I’m already halfway through, its really quite good, I’m impressed… but then again I tend to like Card.

Ah so the lan party on saturday. It turned out to have a pretty good number of people, 10 I think in all…and unfortunately THAT was when I started feeling crappy. Depressed at a lan party! I love lan parties! I had been looking forward to this for over a month. And yet after 2 hours of Battlefield 1942 I was bored. They ended up playing it for 6 hours. I wasn’t about to ask them if we could play something else ’cause everyone was having so much fun, so I just hung out on the couch with one of the dogs and watched tv. I mean I did play some… and around midnight after they decided to finally stop playing BF1942 I got on and played some Warcraft 3. I mean I guess part of my problem was my computer doesnt even meet the minimum specs for the game, so sometimes it freezes up, and I have to systematically reboot every other map or so just to avoid that, it was getting annoying… but even when Myk offered to let me use his computer I didn’t want to play, ugh %( it sucked. It was nice seeing everyone tho, even if I was a supreme party pooper. Also got to meet a good friend of Myk’s that I had played UT with online, and chatted with before but never met. He was pretty funny.. made this comment when someone joked about spraying water in the house with all the computers around, “oh the computers don’t work after you let those sparks out” Heehee. I was laughing for almost 5 minutes. It was fun hanging out with people anyway, even if I was in a lousy mood, we even got pictures this time! %)

26th Of October LAN Party Pictures

I woke up at 6:30 this morning. I don’t know why, it wasn’t until after 2 that I went to bed last night, stupid insomnia! You know how sometimes you wake up and you start thinking of something that upsets you (possibly a dream reminded you of it) and you just start thinking about it so much that sleeping is impossible? That has happened to me a lot lately, and this morning is no exception. SO now its 9 am and I’m still awake, writing in my xanga journal, yay. I will probably go to sleep again after I write this, or at least try… and I’ll focus on thinking happy thoughts! I just need to think of happy things to think of so the stupid bad ones don’t keep invading. It’s going to be a bit difficult to fall asleep I think tho.. the people are outside doing yard work and it’s making my allergies act up… allergies in the end of October! bah!

Anyway, I did get an email this morning cheering me up. Another person emailing to tell me they like my site (princessleia.com) … this time they especially liked the Lyrics page, which is a bit embarrassing since I have really neglected that section lately. Anyway, it’s always nice getting emails from people about my site, it makes me feel like it’s all worth doing, since people go there and enjoy it… sometimes (usually when I am depressed and irrational) I feel like it’s all just a complete waste of time.

I guess I’ll go try to get more sleep now so I don’t end up crankie and tired later this evening. I think we’ll prolly go grocery shopping today, maybe head up to a nice beer shop later so we have nice beer to drink this week while Myk has off.. but in all probably a pretty mellow day, the way this whole week should be… *wanders off*

I’m in a really crappy mood.

Last night was nice. Myk has the week off now, so we decided to order in some yummie indian food %d Got a lot of reading done last night so I’m almost finished with Mort. Also watched Pi… I have it on DVD and it had been a while since I watched it. Ended up finally going to bed around 3ish.

Of course I woke up at like 9:30 this morning, stupid insomnia! We’re going to a LAN party this afternoon so I really wish I could have slept longer, ugh, maybe I’ll get another short nap in before we leave *shrugs*

We’re trying to make plans for thanksgiving… Myk doesnt really want to spend it with his family since we’ve been spending most holidays with them, so I am considering either going to NY, going to Maine, or having my Aunt Elaine and Chet down here for that weekend. I really wanna see my little sis, so we’re considering meeting my Aunt Elaine up in Maine at my ma’s or something… I dunno it’s still a month away, but seeing family would be nice, and nothing ever gets done unless we plan far ahead %)

I think I’ll go back to bed… *wanders off*

Tabitha’s Secret – Forever December

Cleaned apartment this morning, going to find a kewl enlightenment theme noew so my desktop is all pretty when I go to the lan party tomorrow, yay. %)

The Cranberries – Just My Imagination

“Cobain’s Diary Reveals Tortured Man” … I love how observant headlines can be! This is from an article about how excerpts from his journals were published, what an exciting development! Maybe this is why he shot himself in the head! And here I thought he was just cleaning out the barrel of his gun and it was all an accident. Pfft.

Finished reading The Redemption of Althalus last night:

The Redemption Of Althalus, by David and Leigh Eddings, 792 pages

A friend of mine suggested I read this book after I had been pleased by many of David Eddings’ other books. Unlike most of his books, this is only one volume, and Eddings’ true talent for character development shines. At times I find myself a bit bored with the progression of battles and the strategy involved in books such as this one, but in this particular book I was very entertained during the portions having to do with battles. The characters meddle with time and space in innovative ways so that the plot is continually unpredictable. And the characters themselves are lovingly unforgettable. In all I’d definitely recommend this to any Eddings fan, as well as someone just wanting a taste of Eddings who isn’t ready to tackle one the series’.

I think I am gonna start reading Terry Pratchett’s Mort tonight… a lot of Pratchett fans I talk to say this is one of his best of this series, so I’m really looking forward to it. Oh my life is so exciting.

Myk’s vacation starts this weekend, a whole week off! Of course that means I wont be online all day, hehee, it’ll be nice to be together for a full week though %) My computer parts are expected to come in sometime next week as well, hopefully they will be sent by newegg tomorrow, so we can get them by next Wednesday or so. I can’t wait %) We’re going to a LAN party this weekend, it’s really ashame that my computer wont be ready with it’s new stuff, but I have used it in the past for lan parties, just one more wont be too terrible. So I installed Unreal Tournament today, first time installing it in Debian! And the only trouble I had was running an X program… which was easily solved with some help from a friend, so that’s all running and ready for the party. Went into windows and installed Battlefield 1942 this morning, and Warcraft 3 is all set up to be played %)

Ok, so Episode 2 is in the Imax. I am very VERY disappointed that it’s not showing here in Philadelphia, but we were sorta considering going to Pittsburgh to see it (NYC is closer but I really don’t like that city much, and Myk DOES know his way around Pittsburgh). Anyway this would be cool for several reasons. My broski Eric lives in Pittsburgh, if we needed to we could crash there… and two of the people on my xanga subscription list are there! It’d be so cool to meet them ;) since they do have plans to attend opening showings of starwars. But see, my computer stuff will come sometime next week, and I’d HATE to not be able to get my computer stuff ’cause I’m in Pittsburgh (assuming the package doesn’t arrive by Thursday). Plus this is Myk’s vacation, and I really think he wants to relax during it… my begging to drive 6 hours to see an 8 story yoda fight with a lightsaber is no one’s idea of relaxation now is it? So I am torn between my want to go, and KNOWING that if I make a big deal over it Myk will forgo his wishes and take me to see it, possibly being miserable the whole time. I don’t want to ruin the only vacation he gets this year! Then again he might enjoy going… bleeehh %)

So I was messing around with gimp::fu yesterday, the perl module that comes with The Gimp.. and it seems pretty cool. I think I will go through a bit more of the “scripting” tutorial today to see how things work within gimp perl scripts… maybe I can create a few kewl perl scripts to make gimp make pretty things for me %D Yeah so I will go try to do that and hope I am not too eternally distracted like usual… ever notice that when you are at work or something you think of all the wonderful things you can do with the computer if you just had more time? And then on weekends, vacations and times of unemployment all that just goes out the windows and you goof off constantly? Yeah, I have that illness ;)

*wanders off*

How has my day been going?

(a small snippit from chat, uh we have our halloween nicknames on)

-@PrincessEvil2- YAY! it works %)
-@FrankenTime- k8)
-@PrincessEvil2- crap
-@PrincessEvil2- Segmentation fault

It’s been like this all day. Bleh…

Vertical Horizon – You Say

So I have to pay $9.95 if I want to see the Wallace And Gromit shorts. This is very sad. I don’t want to PAY $10 for 9 1-2 minute movies that I can only download and watch on my computer! I wish they’d release the region 1 dvd… I guess if worst comes to worst I can probably get someone to send me the VHS that’s being released over there (no, they wont even release the vhs here, how sucky is that?) Gah… maybe someday they’ll release the dvd here… but I won’t hold my breath.

I haven’t been feeling all that great the past couple days, mostly just tired and I have this awful cough. I’m prolly fighting off all sorts of viruses, since it’s that time of year… at least I don’t have a full blown virus or something yet, and it’s almost November *knocks on wood*

I went for a walk yesterday, it was nice. I even saw a deer! I had never seen one in this area before, and this was 3:30 in the afternoon, so quite notable. I saw some rabbits too, and a bunch of squirrels %) It was a nice walk.

So those sniper shootings are really creepy. I usually don’t pay much attention to the news, but this has got everyone scared… even as ‘far’ as I am from DC. People getting shot just doing ordinary things, and the shooter is threatening kids now?! That just sealed his fate I’m afraid, sicko. And demanding 10 million dollars? This is obviously not a very smart person, he should know that such things just *dont* happen. Oh well… lets just hope this all ends soon, kids are missing quality outdoor time because of this maniac!

YAY! But are they playing it here in Philadelphia? … I don’t want to talk about it *cries* we are considering a trip to pittsburgh however…

Episode 2 IMAX Theater Listings

Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels

Finally got rid of my headache yesterday %) Ended up going to Mailboxes Etc to send out the stuff to newegg for the exchange… FedEx is evil! It cost me almost $40 to send the stuff back!!! like 35 something for shipping, plus the $4 for $500 of insurance I needed to have on it. And this is just standard ground delivery, the overnight shipping was $176! The delivery date is thursday, which is nice, ’cause that means if newegg isnt too backed up with returns I should get my new stuff by mid-next week.

I spent the morning looking for information on the problems we were having with the board. I found out a lot of interesting things… For one I found out that this board apparently has some memory issues, but I NEVER knew anything about this until I specifically did a search for it, which is disappointing. They SAY it should be fixed in an upcoming BIOS upgrade, so we’ll wait and see. They say for the time being if there are problems I should set my ram settings at 133 mhz instead of 166 (for my DDR333 ram) which is frustrating ’cause I paid for the faster ram *shrugs* luckily I’m not too much of a stickler on the speed of ram so I can stand to wait for a bios upgrade. Also I found out that under optimal conditions this board unofficially supporst DDR400 ram *and there was much overclockers rejoicing* So in short, I found out that the ram probably was not faulty, it was board problems. I also did some research into the “Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7” error we were getting during heavy system load (first OS compile). I now don’t think it was what was causing my crashes, since a lot of people have this problem and just ignore it because it doesnt cause problems. The only people who had real problems were ones who had their IRQ7 port being shared (which I did not, and most people didn’t, that’s part of the reason the error is so odd). But it’s not board, processor, or chipset specific. It happens with all sorts of hardware, and I was not really able to find a definative solution. Anyway, I think when I get my parts back we are going to start out by installing windows XP just to TEST everything, since that is the OS that supports what we use and most people using the messageboards I looked at used that. I’ll delete it after, but just to make sure everything is running fine… *shrugs*

I also went looking for drivers for the onboard sound card and lan card.. a search that ended up a bit disappointing. I was unable to find a soundcard driver from SiS, they support the two previous chipsets (SiS961 and SiS962) with drivers for linux, but not mine. I guess this isn’t *too* bad, in the bios it’s easy to disable the onboard sound and just install my SB Live card… that’s a better card than the onboard one anyway, it’s just it feels like a waste having a card in there I can’t use, ya’know? I was lucky to find support for the lan card however, so I’ll just use the onboard lan until we break the
boundries of 10/100 mb across lan transfers ;)

Anyway, the new Wallace and Gromit movies should have been released today %D! So I am gonna wander into windows to watch them (no quicktime for linux… bleh!). *wanders*