So last night we did have friends over, Ian and Jess… met Ian through PLUG and Jess is his fiance. Both really smart people, I enjoy their company even if I don’t know them too well… I like talking to them n stuff, but each time we talk I end up feeling stupid and uneducated by the end of the night… which is partially true since I didn’t go to college.. I dunno, I know I’m not stupid, I just feel that way in certain situations and with certain people… It’s weird ’cause in other situations with other people I am thought of as really smart.. this ongoing contradiction is annoying… and it has me a bit down, I just feel so dumb right now..

So I dont know why i didnt mention it before, but I got to drive Myk’s Jeep for the first time on Thursday.. I hadnt driven since last december, lol. Not because he didnt trust me or didnt want me to, just because the situation never arose for me to ask.. and I never liked driving anyway. But I learned really quicks that a Jeep does NOT drive like a car, lol. I did fine tho, even tho I hadnt driven in like 8 months… it’s like riding a bike, sorta o_O I’ve gone out twice with the Jeep noew, I think now Myk trusts I CAN drive and that I wont kill anything, lol… I really am a good driver.

Today we got up late like usual on saturdays… played around for a bit, I booted into windows to get the windows updates and an updated NVidia GeForce 3 Vid card driver for windows so my computer will run at it’s optimal windows capabilities tomorrow… found out I hadnt run windows update since january, lol. I just dont use windows enough, and when I do I am doing something specific so I dont want to take the time to do an update and reboot and stuff %) Anyway, it should run ok for the party… it’s just sad going into windows, it’s the only time my poor little 450 mhz computer shows it’s age!

So yeah we are going to a LAN party tomorrow… should be fun. Just downloaded a demo of Battlefield 1942… looks pretty cool, we’ll probably buy the full version when it comes out, and I’m sure people will want to play the demo at the lan party tomorrow, just frustrating ’cause the demo doesnt have single player mode %( I have to set up a local server and play on that… and you need two players at least… i think *shrugs* i didnt try to hard to figure it out since we were going out. Yep I went out today! To unos to visit Bob, a guy Myk used to work with… he’s a kewl guy, fun to talk to… and we got to have yummie unos pizza %d

Hmmm… so I don’t usually talk about lame problems on the scifi IRC server.. but they are present in my everyday life. See it’s a crappy old server, and it’s not hard to exploit, so these script kiddiots come on and make a big mess, of course. So #13thHour has been moderated for quite some time now, sure it might hamper the room from growing, but we are happy with the community we have there… the rest of the server hated us for it, but we didnt want to have to deal with lamers, even if it did cost us the occasional kewl chatter from time to time… But just recently this one kid has been causing a lot of problems, so most of the rooms have become moderated, so of course this kid found away around it to annoy the hell out of everyone. Anyway I thought it would be safe to chat in a few other moderated rooms finally, but they insist on making themselves targets by insulting the lamers in the topics… it’s all quite childish, and I don’t want to be in a room that acts like that… arg… I should just retreat to #13thHour and never leave %)

Anyway… Myk is lying down ’cause his allergies were really bothering him and he took some Benedryl and is sorta out of it now, hehee… he’s in bed so I’ll go snuggle with him for a bit and see if i can make him feel better, hehe *wanders off*

Jimmy Eat World – Table For Glasses

This day has gone by so fast… and I’ve wasted it all screwing around, yay!

Called on a few more houses this morning, found the *cutest* one about 1 1/2 hours away % but it was so perfect we decided to not to rule it out… I called on it today and guess what.. SOLD! This is getting really frustrating… Well at least I know I have good taste in houses right?

My mother called last night, actually.. my little sis Annette ’cause they wanted to know why you needed a credit card to set up an ebay account. Apparently they are trying to sell a truck they have, on ebay, and they dont have a credit card. I told them why they needed it… then offered to let them use my account as long as they made sure to pay me back for the money ebay would charge me for the listing (generally a small percentage of what the item sells for). I guess they’ll get back to me *shrugs* The conversation with my mother was strangely civil though, even after the brief bitching about my father that I managed to cut off rather quickly. Apparently they went on a vacation in Georgia and Tenn and a few other states a few weeks ago.. went to Dollywood (oh boy! heh) and visited with Jerry(my ma’s husband)’s family. I guess they had fun, even tho I know it was incredibly hot. Made it a point to tell me they drove right past philly, thanks mom… and she bitches that i dont see her enough *shakes her head*…I talked to my little sis too… she informed me there are BillBoards in Georgia (they are illegal in Maine, and Maine is all she knows, so they are neat new things to her). She told me that one said “Adult Toys and Videos” she took 4 pictures of it ’cause it was so funny and she wants to show her friends… she is so odd. Also told me that she almost got detention on the first day of school! Ugh.. that’s my little sis… hehe

So Myk invited friends over for fish, cheese and beer… *shrugs* Don’t know if they are coming yet but I suppose I should go clean up just in case they do… not that they’d notice a little dust, lol… I am such a neat freak now, cleaning the place top to bottom at least twice a week… who would have guessed? I was such a slob growing up.. now the only messy place is my desk!

Right, so since it’s already almost 4 I should start doing that noew… *wanders off*

Myk is home from work today, had a lousy night last night and decided to call in *shrugs* He’s still sleeping, poor myn %(

Was looking for houses again yesterday… found 3 really nice promising ones, ONE of which was like PERFECT… called on all three to get an appointment to see the houses, all 3 have been sold already! They weren’t on the market long either, so apparently Myk and I are looking for the most popular types of house, heh. Anyway I dont feel like writing… *wanders off*

She’s In Parties – The Bauhaus

I’m not sure how much I’ve said about this… but Myk and I are trying to find a house. It’s kinda difficult ’cause I don’t have a car so I can’t drive around checking out places while Myk is at work (I might borrow the Jeep someday to doso however..), so I am pretty much confined to looking around on the net. I spent quite a while yesterday looking around and it’s terribly frustrating % For one I don’t really know the area too well, so I am confined to looking in just a few towns I *know* are nice… and we are very picky %) But I think we have to be, since this is going to be the “biggest purchase of our lives” and all, we want the perfect place! Without a 50 year mortgage of course %) We havent contacted a Realtor yet *shrugs* I guess that’ll come if we really have trouble finding something, they do seem nice enough, since it IS their job to please. I’ll look summore today, a friend of mine said Realtor.com was good *shrugs*

We went out for pizza last night… and assuming since it wasn’t a busy night that we’d have a decent time (we usually go on fridays, when it’s packed and we can hardly hear each other speak). Well we were wrong, apparently tuesday nights they put the worst, most inexperienced people on. Ok, we ordered an appitizer right? Comes BEFORE the meal? Of course, everyone knows that! Well they came WITH the pizza, without any dipping sauce, AND half were burnt. We sent them back of course, but it was enough to really spoil the meal. Went to radioshack afterwards to pick up a new alarm clock ’cause the other one broke… had to get it at radioshack ’cause it’s a special little “control center” alarm clock… all the lights in our house that plug into the wall (not overhead lights) are assigned a number and you can turn them on and off with a remote, or the alarm clock.. dim them too, it rocks %) The alarm clock came with these stickers too to help you remember which switches are for what stuff… half of them are stickers of lamps, it’s very silly %)

Anyway, I havent eaten breakfast today, and since I got up kinda early (8 instead of 9) eating breakfast would be good so I dont starve (haha) before lunchtime *wanders off*

Nine Inch Nails – Complication

I had a surprisingly productive day yesterday, so it was a good day for me %) I didnt get much further in the php tutorial, couldnt really focus on that for some reason, but I decided to use my current php knowledge to create one of those quizzes! Yep, and it even works! YAY! I took it myself.. It’s an IRC Addiction Quiz %)


Take the IRC Addiction Quiz!
By PrincessLeia2
. . . www.princessleia.com . . .

This may not be relevant to many ppl reading this.. oh well.

I got an email from my sis, she can keep the chinchillas for now, but she has a really small room and doesnt really want to keep them… I think Myk and I will go up and get them once we get a house (which we hoped would be before the end of the year…) So I’ll have my chillies eventually %) And to respond to a comment.. yeah Dweezle is old %( I didnt realize it, but he was about 2-3 years older than Eve… and Eve was born in ’94… so he’s at least 10 years old. When taken care of well they can live 12-15 years… sorta depressing thinking about it, poor old Dweezle… he’s still the same old crazy chinchilla tho %)

I’m gonna go wander off noew… *wanders*

Tori Amos – Winter

*Read a friend’s blog* Ah sickening religious optimism in the morning, just what I need to spoil my morning %) Gah It’s monday, I dont like mondays…

Spent the weekend reading mostly… we rented MST3K:Pod People and Mangolia on saturday night, had fish, cheese, and too much beer %) And there was a thunderstorm outside! Yay! It was a fun night, didn’t get sick from drinking this time ;)

Sunday I felt alright considering all I drank the night before (my body *still* aches… hehe). We had planned to go to the Linux Picnic, but we felt sorta bad so I didnt think we were gonna go. Our friend Nita ended up calling us around 4 asking if we were coming, we decided to *shrugs*… got there finally around 7, and turns out hardly anyone showed up, so it was sucky and lame %( I’m not sure what I expected, heh… Bar night on friday was much more sucessful, of course I wont be 21 for another 34 days %s

So I realized something rather startling the other day.. We have these really geeky, computer friends in real life, they are pretty cool, but seem to have a strange view on women… Why strange? Well I wouldn’t say they are women haters or anything, they love women.. just dont appreciate intelligence in women enough I think… and that really bothers me. I think what really did it tho was this:

http://michael.toren.net/markers.jpg

It’s a map of where a bunch of us live.. everyone gathered the coordinates and gave them to MCT to put on the map. Of course Myk (Time) was working so I wandered to the website and got the coordinates, and so I am the *only* woman on the map! MCT didnt say him and his gf… bj didnt have him and his girlfriend, etc… Only because I gave the coordinates instead of Myk, I get on there… and then of course there is the topic of the room currently “A good woman is like a piano. When she’s not upright, she’s grand.” … which again bothers me A LOT. I think it’s mostly because if I met these people online one day or something instead of meeting them in real life as “Myk’s Girlfriend” I could be their friend… as it is I am stuck in this inferior ‘woman’ stereotype, and it’s unfair… I feel uncomfortable with the women when they talk about soap operas and babysitting, and I feel uncomfortable with the guys ’cause I feel like I shouldnt be there because I’m a woman.. and they STILL sometimes treat me like a freaking idiot *sigh* I hate having to prove myself to these people over and over again, it’s really unfair… then again it IS encouragement to suceed in everything I attempt and not let them see me as a stupid woman…

Well one thing that was good about the picnic is I was telling a friend of mine about the situation with my father and stuff, and mentioned that my sister might have to give away my chinchillas Merlynn and Dweezle. Myk overheard this and was like “ack, do you want to go get them? I dont want her having to just give them away to some person she doesnt know” … I was a bit surprised by this, since I *know* Myk is allergic, and our apartment doesnt really have a place for them. But he said if her getting rid of them is an option then we HAD to go get them, even if they have to live at his mother’s for a few months until we get a house. I was really happy about this %) I miss them so much %(

Oh! I finished the 4th Wheel of Time book this weekend… I will type up the review noew %)

Book Four: The Shadow Rising, By Robert Jordan, 1006 pages

This book takes place about a year after the first. Rand and the others are forced into deciding what path each of them is to follow… inevitably splitting them up again. This book really focuses on showing how each character has changed since leaving home, for better or worse, and also give us a much better picture of some of their enemies, the 9 remaining Forsaken. It also aroused a great number of new suspicions and mysteries that I am very interested in being explored in the next books…

Well I’m gonna go noew… besides that php tutorial that I’m dying to get back to I still need to take a shower this morning after I clean the kitchen… *wanders off*

Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates

People should write more songs about things you use for eating like plates and glasses.. I’ve never heard one I havent liked… not that there are many…

I ran up2date last night and it upgraded my php for me, very nicely.. so now i have 4.1.2 (apparently THIS is what i needed to have everything work right, not 4.2.x) Anyway everything is in working order now, yay! %) I added a little php to r2d2’s little lan page, hehe.. and I’ve been working through the tutorial at php.net for about an hour now %) should have been for longer but i kept chatting, heh

I finished my MST3K page yesterday %) YAY! You can check it out here:

princessleia.com/MST3K

So I guess I’ll get back to working with php.. it’s friday %) Hopefully I’ll have a nice weekend… *wanders off*

You know how I said it was something simple and stupid that was wrong with the php? At least I was right about that! Heh… turns out the global variables beginning with $_ were implimented in 4.2.x … guess what version i have? YEP! One before that … 4.0.6!!! Gah, that’s why it wasnt working, I feel like such an idiot %) I gotta try to upgrade it now, heh fun %|

Matchbox 20 – Long Day

Sitting here waiting for papa john’s to deliver my pizza… they take checks for delivery, isnt that amazing? Sure amazing AND terrible, since now I’ll be tempted to get pizza all the time %) But I wont… I really should save my savings, heh.

So PHP is still not working, I have tried so many things I am getting so frustrated! I just know it’s something small that I’m overlooking and that’s what bothers me the most %( I have been working on my MST3K page to get my mind off of it, heh. I could play with *just* php a bit (no with mysql) on my webserver, but that would probably just annoy me *shrugs*

I opened the windows of the apartment and shut off the AC… it’s not too bad out, at least I am breathing real air for once %D Would be better if it wasnt humid out tho, humidity makes the room feel sticky, and that’s not cool…

Sister Hazel – Your Winter

Sometimes I just wander around random blogs to see what other people in the world are doing… and I realized today how much I absolutely dispise ultra optimists… Maybe not them personally, but when I read a blog that is continually sickeningly sweet it really disturbs me. I think I can safely say it’s more disturbing to hear someone be happy and positive about _everything_ than to meet someone who likes to drink blood. What can I say? I mean I’m not as pessimistic as I used to be, I really do look on the bright side when I’m in the mood, but my life’s not perfect… do all these super optimists just lie to themselves and the world in blogs and go home to beat their head against a wall? No one can be so happy!! The world may never know…

Right. So Open Office officially sucks ass. True it’s free, and it’s got quite a number of decent features, but it crashes way too often. I was writing a letter (real paper letter) to my penpal in england (she doesnt have a computer, and an online relationship would really ruin this 6 year penpal thing, hehee)… and open office crashed! Granted I should have been saving… and looking back I probably should have written the thing in vim and then moved it to open office to format and print… *sigh* I just get so frustrated with open office at times like this %) Not to mention it’s slow ass on my computer, and I ALWAYS get errors when saving and exiting (even though the saves do seem to take, I dunno why I get errors).. At least it’s better than Star Office %) I suppose this is one of the times where I have to break down and say that Microsoft Office is superior to anything so far in linux *sigh* even though you are supposed to pay for it, it’s fast in windows and really is stable as far as windows is concerned. Gah… stupid dumb everything

Hmm in other news I slept well last night! Yes that is news, I usually sleep terribly.. prolly after that hangover yesterday (which I got over pretty quickly, luckily) I was tired and able to sleep… Feels good to get a good night sleep sometimes.. of course I will probably pay for it with terrible nights of sleep after this *shrugs*

Anyway, I found out yesterday that my local httpd server doesnt like some php… it’ll process parts but wont respond to other parts.. I thought it was the scripts, so i uploaded them to the webserver and they worked fine… I have no idea what is wrong, and I would work on them on my webserver but I need to be able to access and use MySQL as root, which i cant do on the webserver(and dont want to, if i screw something up, my webpage goes down, as well as myk’s). Hopefully Myk can figure out what’s wrong tonight… I will wander around google and check some stuff out, but it’s entirely likely that I wont be able to fix it on my own, and will prolly break more if i try %) .. if I cant get that working I’ll prolly work on parts of my webpage that need work (oh that would be all of them, heh) *wanders off*