Well I never did get around to writing any emails yesterday… but I did get my chat client to match my email client! Looks really kewl noew :

(click to see larger, 89k, screenshot)


So yeah, I played with colors a lot %) I also changed the way my first terminal is too… the one when I boot up, it’s so pretty noew %) hehe.

It ended up being a really nice weekend in all, I had fun %) Oh and we watched adult swim last night on cartoon network… new eps of harvey birdman, that show is so funny, hehe. And there were episodes of other kewl shows on there that I hadnt seen before, so that was kewl.. the brak show, sealab 2021, aqua teen hunger force… I went to bed around 12, read for a while, and thinking that Myk would come to bed any minute I started to try to go to sleep around 1ish… But of course I tossed and turned til at least 2:30… and Myk still wasnt in bed when I ended up falling asleep… see I seem to move around a lot when I go to sleep, so it’s better if I am at least REALLY relaxed or actually asleep when he comes to bed, so I dont bother him. Anyway, I guess he ended up going to bed around 3ish… then he got up before 6, hardly any sleepy %( Stupid neighbors upstairs decided to be extra noisy with their getting ready this morning, heh… So I ended up getting up when he left around 7:30… and I’m actually *not* tired, prolly ’cause this weekend my sleep schedule was so messed up, and I slept too much, hehe.

Right, so we went to that BBQ/LAN party this past 4th of July, and we took like 30 or so pics… and I said I’d get them posted, but we couldnt find the usb cable for the camera all weekend. So last night while I was trying to go to sleep one of the things I thought about what where it could be, so this morning I went looking for it in the places I thought of… and lo and behold I found it. Of course then I couldnt find the camera! I thought this was due to the universe being against me, (and this still might be true) but it turns out Myk took the camera to work, thinking the cable was at work, DOH!!! So I still dont have pictures. Tomorrow tho, I will have them tomorrow *knocks on wood*

I dunno what I’ll do today… Maybe work on my site a bit since it’s been neglected for the time I was playing with new r2’s perl script for xchat… which is up and running pretty well btw, I’m really impressed. There are some more things I could do with it of course, but I wanted to get it up and running. Maybe I’ll look into porting it to irssi today… or maybe I’ll spend the day writing emails *shrugs* For noew I’m gonna go grab some breakfast.

*sigh* weekend is almost over %( We ended up seeing “Minority Report” last night, I didnt want to go see it really, mostly because of that Lexus commercial, I *hate* when people use movies to sell products. But it was Myk’s birthday and our friends suggested we go see that so we did. It wasnt bad I guess, I dont like Tom Cruise much, and there are always paradoxal problems with movies that have to do with “seeing into the future and trying to change it” movies. But hey, it’s Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise I suppose they can get away with anything, just look at ticket sales, $73,424,800 in 2 weeks, not bad! Still the #2 movie in the country… and the theater we were in was pretty full, this is it’s 3rd week. Anyway, we went to Unos afterward, it wasnt bad for a saturday night… of course it was like 10 pm. They did the whole birthday song for Myk and he was all embarassed, hehe, but it was fun… we all came back to the apartment after and watched some wallace and gromit movies, as well as a dvd of aardman entertainment shorts, turned out to be a fun, (non-alcoholic!) night. We stayed up and chatted n stuff til about 5 am. See, 4 day weekend and my schdule is totally upside down.

Ah I feel a rant coming on! … So we paid like $8 each to see a movie, that’s not counting the overpriced snacks, etc that go along with movie theater attendance. So all this just to see a new movie, ok, sure, it’s something to do, it’s fun, I am willing to do all this to have something to do with friends sometimes, and something to talk about. So we get into the theater sit down and watch those silly on screen ads and movie questions. Then the film starts rolling “yay previews” and then I see… COMMERCIALS!! Now I know that commercials before movies have been pretty common for almost 10 years, and they pissed me off then too, but this theater showed like 5 or 6 of them!!! Thoughts ran through my head of seriously leaving at that point. Why do they need commercials? You figure they pay their employees minimum wage, it’s a 22 screen theater that is always busy so it’s not like the movies arent paying for themselves, and the markup on candy is like 300% … while dirt cheap popcorn and soda is marked up insanely, do they really need to show me 6 commercials before my movie?! Flockers…

Right, so I’m sure I have stuff to do today besides write here… so i’ll go figure out what that stuff is noew, I guess I should write some emails, I have been slacking off on that lately (oh yeah I always slack off on writing emails..this is nothing new).. so yeah.. bye.

Happy Birthday Myk!

love you myn %)

Yep, it’s Myk’s birthday today, so we slept in til too and have spent most of the day just hanging out playing with our computers. It’s a nice day out too so we have the windows open, giving the poor air conditioner a break. Yesterday turned out to be a little more eventful than I thought it would be, we had to go back over to the house we were at for the LAN party. See, while we were there on the 4th, our friend Rae borrowed our win2k disks to install win2k on her computer (oops piracy MS is gonna beat me up noew), and her computer ended up crashing. Some driver messed up windows, stupid OS!!! Anyway Myk and I went over to fix it, took a couple hours, it was a big mess. Then we came home…were kinda bored and hungry, so went out for pizza… Yummie, three cheese spinach from Joseph’s in philly %d Anyway, we ended up going to bed at like 4 am, hehe.. long weekends mess up my sleeping so much, I dont like sleeping at night! I like sleeping during the day… (% sun bad!!!

Anyway, we’re gonna go to dinner and the movies soon, a couple of our friends are taking us out ’cause it’s Myk’s bday and all, hehe. Anyway, we have to get going… %)

Happy Birthday Ash!!!

Happy Birthday Lucy!!!

It’s also my sister’s strange canadian boyfriend’s birthday today…but he’s just not special enough to get onto this page.

*Yawn* So I was at a LAN party all day yesterday, offline so I couldnt write in this or anything *shrugs* The lan party was fun though, we played UT, watched some movies.. ate lots of food. We have pictures, i’ll put up a link for them as soon as we find the USB cable to get them off of the digital camera, hehe. But I guess it was a pretty good 4th of July, and it was completely alcohol free, woohoo! Hehe. We watched Shallow Hal… I’m not sure who rented it, but it was definately a strange movie. It had it’s moments I guess, I laughed, but as a whole it’s not the kind of movie I’d recommend to anyone, it got really cheesy at some points… We also watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I saw it in the theater last summer, it’s still funny, hehe. As for playing UT, n-tropy kept wanting to play capture the flag, bleh… I dont like CTF much, so I only played a couple games of that. And my monitor is getting pretty dark (all brightness n stuff are turned all the way up, it’s just an old monitor..), so some of the maps were kinda hard to see in *shrugs* I played the best I could without complaining.. just got annoying sometimes when I’d be stuck in dark inside places and couldn’t get out because I couldnt see the exit, hehe.

We saw fireworks too, I think the last time I saw them I was in seneca falls at the Italianfest.. and I had to leave during the finale so I could get to work on time *sigh* not good memories! … but these fireworks were nice, lots of pretty ones %) .. but noew that I mentioned seneca falls, that reminds me, I got a letter from Fleet Bank in the mail on wednesday. Now this letter was addressed to me, at my current residence, 400 some miles from where I opened my accound in seneca falls… so they *know* I am not anywhere near that anymore… The letter was to tell me that the ATM at my “local Waterloo branch” wont be closing afterall… (waterloo is the town next to seneca falls). Strange huh? Stupid banks. Anyway, I guess that’s it for noew, I have some ideas for my xchat script so I’m gonna go play with that for a while..

You know how sometimes a day is going good, nothing to spectacular, but good, and then something little happens that just totally upsets you so that the rest of the day is spent being depressed and bored? Well it’s one of those days for me! This morning when I wrote my post I was in a pretty good mood.. and noew I just want to go to bed and wait for a new day to come along so I have a fresh start.

First of all, the scifi chat server is all unstable today, and ok, it’s like that a lot, so it’s just irratating. But I am trying to work on scripts for my new bot and I cant freaking do it on a server that wants to quit every 3 seconds. So noew my script is a little weird ’cause I was working on it (testing new things), when the server quit last and totally pissed me off… *UGH* I was so frustrated that I even wandered to another irc server to try to work on it, only to find out that the scifi server is so freaking special that my scripts only work there. *Sigh*

As if this isnt enough to upset me, we found out soon after I wrote that first post that Myk isnt getting the Sparc box afterall… apparently one of our friends responded first. This was all after Myk wrote all this stuff in one of the chat rooms about all the stuff he wanted to do with it… and was so excited, and so happy and all saying how his birthday was gonna rock… I guess when I thought he was gonna get the sparc it made me feel better that I wasnt really able to get him anything (well I *could* but it would be paid for out of my savings, and he’s told me before that he doesnt want me spending that on him). Plus he’s so impossible to shop for.. I thought I could pay for this and it’d be so perfect! … So I guess the whole thing falling through really upset me: 1. because I know how excited Myk was about it 2. All that guilt came back about not getting him anything … I guess I’m too sensitive, and I dont take disappointment well, I actually started crying! Yep, I’m such a girl… I guess it was just the mood I was in, and I slept weird last night too.. maybe I’m tired? I dont even feel like going to the plug meeting tonight ’cause I’m so depressed about all this crap, it’s so stupid.

*sigh* I guess I’m gonna go play with my neopets, or something… even if the scifi server comes back up in the near future I think I am just too upset and frustrated to work on my script… laters

Ah well… I am so happy %) I got my xchat r2 working! He does the most important thing that mirc r2 did, and that’s responding to the ! command.. so !cake and he gives you cake… it’s really kewl, today I’m gonna add summore %) So once I get the xchat bot up and running I’m gonna wander through irssi stuff and try to port the script to irssi, yay! Hey maybe nex week I’ll even have him up and running in irssi, that’d be so cool! Anyway, I’m really happy that I’m understanding this perl stuff, ’cause I thought it would be very difficult and impossible… luckily I’m determinded to get r2 off windows %)

So tonight were going to PLUG (philly linux users group)… should be fun I guess, as long as after the meeting we dont roast in a silly pizza place… it’s so hot out, already 91 at 10 am… all this week there have been severe weather advisories directly because of the heat… it sucks. Luckily we have nice a/c so I dont have to go outside in it! supposedly the heat index got to around 110 yesterday, bleh, I’d be soooo sick if I was in that. I guess dispite philly being a little hotter than other places I’ve lived, it has the advantage of widespread air conditioning. Of course that also makes the electric companies happy… EAK @ our electric bill.

Anyway, at the plug meeting I guess a friend of ours we know from the group is selling us a little sparc 10 box %)! Myk’s really excited, he just saw the post about him selling it last night, and responded really fast with “GIMMIE” … hehe, he came into our bedroom where i was reading and was like “GUESS WHAT!!! HEHE!!! I FOUND MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!!” … it was so cute %) But yeah, tonight I guess he’s gonna get his new little sun box (he uses one at work and has since wanted one for home use). So that’ll be kewlies %) I guess he’s gonna put debian on it.. and we’ll have a 6 computer lan %) … Oh and he’s gonna set up an irc server for me, so I can develop perl scripts for xchat n stuff and not have to worry about the scifi server’s continual restrictions and gayness… Speaking of which the server has been up and down most of the morning, stupid thing. Pisses me off! I cant work on this script if the server is that unstable! %) If the server doesnt get stable soon I’ll have to wander to another server to work on it which could cause problems in the script since the scifi server is a “special” STUPID EVIL server that’s not the same as any other in existance because no one but scifi would be so stupid as to have one that bad. Hehe… But it’s my home %)

Moving on.. I read something very interesting the other night. See I am reading the books I talk about, but in addition I am reading this HG Wells book “The Outline Of History” … it’s only the first half, and it’s an old book, hardcover published in like 1940 (and this is the 1940 edition, so .. yeah). It’s been very interesting because this half of the outline describes from the beginning of the world, to the beginning of roman empire, using the knowledge they had in 1940. Of course this is post darwin, so it bases human development of the fossils found of “pre man”… And at times it’s kinda funny ’cause they defend themselves when they allude to religion as being mostly BS… Like where they describe where they thought religion with a central god figure got it’s beginnings. They believe that in some pre homo sapien species of man there was an “Old Man” of each little group of people. He was respected because of his age and wisdom, even in times before a spoken language existed. Well this, they believe, might have sometime turned into a godlike figure.. maybe one time a very important and influential old man of a group died, and from then on people did things in his honor… I guess it’s widely seen that sacrifices (human and animal) were some of the first “religious rites” preformed… the people thought that by pleasing the old man, or god, that their crops would grow well, they would have good health, etc… Of course this progression from old man in pre homo sapien species to human crop sacrifices to god took thousands of years, but it does seem to make sense. *Shrugs* at least to me %) It gave me something kewl to think about anyway.

Hmmm anyway, it seems like the scifi server has stablized a bit *knocks on wood* so I am gonna go play with my perl xchat script summore, yay! Laterski (%

SO with madragoran’s help I wrote my first perl script for xchat yesterday %D! YAY! All it does is give voice and a welcome message to friends in a list, but it’s a start %) I had a bit of trouble at first … and madragoran helped me when I made obvious mistakes, but in all I only actualy “stole” one line from his script, hehe.. and although I am sure there would have been other ways to do that certain thing, I was unsure I could figure any out so I borrowed it for noew (of course I SAID in the script that I borrowed it… hehe). So it’s mostly mine, and I understand the whole thing, so that’s cool %) I’m really proud of it. Of course I spent at least 5 hours working on it yesterday… after I was like “I just spent 5 hours on a 19 line script!” .. but as always with these things, I was sorta learning as I was going so that explains a lot %P Anyway, today I am gonna go through some more scripts and see if I can write something that can respond to commands given in the channel by other people (like my mirc bot does)… Since the perl.c library for xchat is so extensive in theory there *should* be a way to do it, but I *am* still a newbie at both perl and xchat stuff.

Other than that I got the books I ordered %) YAY! … I went for a little walk yesterday and when I came home they were sitting at the door, I was so happy.. I started reading the Sorceress of Dashiva last night, s’good so far %) Oh and Myk has thursday and friday off for the 4th of July, YAY!!! Then on saturday, the 6th is his birthday %) YAY!! It should be a good weekend %)

Hmmm I guess that’s it for noew.. laterski.

Hmm I didnt write anything really yesterday… Oh well not much went on %) Got up pretty late (11ish) and I was looking through the 2 xchat perlscripts that my friend madragoran sent me… did a bit of looking at perl.c as well *sigh* I’m very frustrated ’cause I still can’t understand it enough to write a script. I was really tired yesterday too (despite sleeping late I didnt sleep well… and although that’s not too unusual, it does make concentrating very hard). SO I am gonna see if I can find some simpler scripts online today and *try* to just write a simple on join +v script… so maybe someday I can get R²D² off mirc, and so he’s more stable n stuff. Plus he’ll be all off icky, icky windows %)

I think I’m gonna go for a walk as well… It’s supposed to be near 90 today… but in the upper 90s for tuesday and wendesday… so there is no way I’m leaving the house then!

Well I am gonna go get a shower, and dressed.. Then I’ll get to work on the xchat scripts %) Hopefully I’ll have more luck understanding them today…

How Gay Are YOU? [?]

I think this quiz was very unfair… I don’t like chicks at all! The times I answered yes on the survey were purely innocent, bleh!!!

You are 10% evil! [?]

That’s right! You’re the meekest of the meek! You’re the least amount evil! The philosophy in ying and yang is that no one person can be completely good or completely evil, but you’re pretty close to complete, goodie-two-shoes!

uh… yay evil! … doh! %)

Find your emotion!

Hmmm that’s not *entirely* true.. But then again most arent %)

It’s good to have my page back… but I spent most of the day reading, I finished Quantum Psychology and wrote up a review :

Quantum Psychology, By Robert Anton Wilson, 202 pages

In this book, the author tries to draw parallels between the
scientifically world changing concepts behind quantum physics and his
new way of looking at how our mind works and interacts with the
universe. With no “formal” education in Quantum Physics (no degrees in
this field, etc.) he takes both the simple and more complex theories in
Quantum Physics and makes them understandable to the casual reader,
while also describing how they reflect our own human psychology. He
brings forth examples like how a photon “is” a particle, and “is” a
wave, and puts this into real life, intellectual, situations (where many
people say quantum theory has no place). In all although I am not sure I
agree or completely understand all of what he says in this book (I guess
it *does* require a bit of a mind for understanding pretty abstract,
“unnatural” concepts), I can say that this book DOES get you thinking
about things you might not otherwise think about.


Oh and last night I was able to put up my cute little neopets sites (since princessleia.com is back up to host them on), yay! They are :
http://www.neopets.com/~eveey

http://www.neopets.com/~firethrower13

http://www.neopets.com/~rhtux

I’ll prolly submit one of them to the neopet’s “site of the day” sometime next week or so… but I’m not sure which looks the best, any suggestions?

I also got a WTC thing written up like last week, but of course couldnt post it ’cause my site was down, so that’s up now… here,.

Heh… this is like a whole blog about my webpage… oh well, my life isnt much more exciting than that. Although I did talk to my cousin today. She’s a little older than me, and we never knew each other too well, but she moved down here last week to live with her boyfriend who is going to med school here… So we’ll be hanging out some %) YAY! Should be cool…

I guess that’s it…