SO yesterday afternoon I decided to take a walk around 3 pm… dispite my terrible alergies and the thunderstorm advisory(it was sunny, I swear!). I grabbed the walkman and an old tape I had and went out. See there is this trail that goes around the apartment complex, a mile long, so I thought I’d walk around it a couple times to clear my head. Well the tape I took with me is a story unto itself %) It was labeled “Music Tape 3: 1997-1998” so it was a bunch of stuff I listened to then. I guess I’m proud to say that it wasnt bad, I have a bunch of those songs as mp3s now even. It was funny hearing the clips of WCYY (the radio station up in maine I used to listen to) on the tape, ’cause it was so obvious I taped all the songs off the radio… Anyway, I was about halfway around the complex and it got all dark and cloudy.. the birds started making noises and I was just like “aw crap, it’s gonna rain” So instead of running I just kept walking… by the time I got home I was soaked %) It was fun tho, the lightning and thunder didnt start till after I got home, I might have actually walked around again if it werent for the thunder and lightning I KNEW were coming *shrugs*

So last night lots of thunder and lightning. I had a bit of a sinus headache though, from my walk, of course I should have expected something like that. I felt pretty crappy, started making dinner when Myk came home but he took over when he saw I wasnt feeling good, he’s so good to me %). We ate dinner… watched Law and Order and snuggled %) I felt much better after a couple hours of snuggling and talking, it’s really nice to do that sometimes… I feel so comfortable with him. %)!!!

So right before bed we came in here to check our email n stuff… and I found mail from my former employer on my desk. I guess Myk had just put it there without saying anything to me (prolly ’cause I had a headache). Anyway I opened it and it was a check for $479 ($650 gross… blood sucking taxes…) Apparently Nice N Easy was audited by the US Department of Labor about overtime wages for the time I worked there and instead of getting in trouble to the full extent of the law, they’ve decided to send all current and former employees who were suspected of having miscalculated overtime. Heh, apparently they miscalculated a lot $650 would have been over 2 weeks of pay for me. And it doesnt bother me too much, ’cause I have the money and I can save it noew, instead of having it then and wasting it with my ex… although, with this extra money it DOES make buying Linux for my PS2 a much nicer option %)! Maybe I’ll convince Myk to take me out this weekend so I can buy it, hehe. See it’s like $199, comes with harddrive, ethernet card, keyboard, mouse, and a version of linux for the ps2. We’ll be able to network the ps2 to the rest of the computers!!! %) It’s gonna be so cool, but since it’s $199 we were holding off, all my income tax return is in savings, and I didnt really want to spend it… but this is like bonus money I never knew about… sooo… %)

Hmmm… I guess that’s it for noew, I’m gonna go talk to my sis for a little bit… %)

PLUG was ok last night.. a presentation on KDE scripting, which doesnt exactly interested me too much… seeing as I dont use KDE %)

We got home around 11:15 last night, I was feeling awful ’cause after the PLUG meeting we went to this place called “The Wurst House” for food, they have a really great selection of beer (which i am not even old enough to drink!)so people usually want to go there, but as far a the food goes, it’s the worst house %) And it wasnt air conditioned (what should I expect from central philly? Hehe), well so the food was awful and it was too hot! Like 80 outside (at 10 pm!) and much hotter inside. Plus my stupid dumb alergies were going all crazy. Bleh, I was fine once I got home back into the air conditioning tho %)

Then as we had *just* turned off the lights to go to bed the phone rang. Myk answered it and it was my sister heather, sounding all upset. I freaked and thought something had happened with my father, since he’s been ill lately, but it turns out that her favorite chinchilla died %( By no means as bad news, but still terrible, Wally was such a cute little animal, and my sister (she’s almost 19) was really close to him. Since most of her friends have gone to college her pets are really the only constant I guess, something I can relate to, and losing Wally was really rough, I mean obviously, since she had to call her sis long distance in the middle of the night to talk about it. Apparently he was sorta sluggish all day, she just thought he was being lazy, so before going to bed she went over to his cage and took him out to cuddle. He weakly snuggled up with her and she was pretty concerned, and decided if he was still acting all sleepy that she’d take him to the vet in the morning… Well she snuggled and hugged him and he ended up dying in her arms %(!!! I guess she’s really bothered ’cause she doesnt know what caused it, or if the other chinchillas will be in danger of catching whatever killed him. I tried to comfort her by telling her that he died happily, and he had a really good life, but there isnt much to say in a situation like that. It must have been like when I lost Eve.. I was in highschool when she died and it took me a LONG time to get over her, I still have a picture of her on my desk in fact, so I guess she’ll never be completely gone.

I tried to get my sister’s attention away from just wally by asking her how the family was doing, heh, I guess my sister Annette’s favorite Guinea Pig died recently too %( ‘lil Chippy… And I guess my father’s health isnt getting much better, he’s in some serious debt to the hospital because he doesnt have medical insurance, etc… It’s such a mess. So the call was pretty depressing *sigh* still depresses me now that I am fully awake and finally able to take it all in (unlike last night, when I was too tired). On the bright side my sister is enrolling in USM (university of southern maine) for the fall I believe, it’ll be good for her to get into college, especially after what a disappointment I turned out to be, heh.

Hmmm, this sure turned out to be a depressing post… I guess that’s all I have to say for now… later.

I talked to my friend Katie last night, it had been over 2 1/2 years… things went better than could be expected I guess, she was pretty non responsive at first, but then talked summore, it ended up being an alright conversation, and I got her permission to post some funny little articles on my site that we wrote when we were being silly a few times freshman year… ah those were the days (from hell!). I guess Katie is doing alright though, which is kewl, maybe someday we could even be good frieneds again? *shrugs* I have a feeling that keeping on contact with her over the net will be very difficult…

Moving on… We’re going to a PLUG meeting tonight, Philadelphia Linux Users Group… it’s pretty interesting stuff, a presentation about something Linux related, and then most everyone gets together and goes out for food, continuing a mostly computer related conversation, it’s cool hanging out with smart people, but of course I am sometimes backed into corners where I feel very very stupid! Ah I guess it happens to the best of us.. and besides, I’ve only used Linux for 5 months! Hehe… It’s cool listening to the smart people though, I pick up a lot (and miss much more I’m sure), but it really does help me learn, and I am pretty comfortable talking with these people.

I guess I’m done… I’m gonna go wander off and write some book reviews.. n stuff… *wanders off*

o_O It’s too early in the morning. Well I guess this weblog thing isnt too bad, it’s an interesting idea, letting your journal be posted on the ‘net, but hey, I have nothing to hide so why not! It’s also coincidentally interesting that this site matches my own website pretty well, I should link it…

So I was thinking last night, ’cause Myk was working on our server for our webpages (the company that hosts our box now is going out of business, so we needed to find a new home for our box… so he’s setting up a Dell to be put in the basement of our friends house, who has a T1) so I’ve had tons of time to read, write, etc. Which is good because sometimes I feel my eternal connection to my computer is bad, hehe. Ack, tangent.. “so i was thinking last night…” about all sorts of things, one of them was how disappointed I was about the episode 2 ticketsales. As of the time I am writing this it has only made $232,324,344, which isnt peanuts, but still… Episode 1 did better. I thought up a few reasons why this might have happened:

1. The pirated copy of Episode 2 that came out on the ‘net a full week before the movie came to theaters hurt ticket sales significantly. I personally know at least 1 person who has not gone to see it, and said he probably wouldnt, because he downloaded it. He would have gone if he didnt see it! So I assume there are many more like him out there.. Also, I think that even people who wanted to get the full effect of the film the first time, might settle for the comfort of their own computer chair to watch it more, dispite the quality (which is actually pretty good…)

2. Episode 1 sucked so bad, that people just arent giving Episode 2 a chance. I personally got my tickets for the midnight showing, the day of the opening… they werent NEARLY as scarce as the episode 1 tickets, I remember online scalpers making a fortune in busy areas by selling their tickets. But not this time! Also some people might have indefinately put off going to see the film, because of the gross disappointment of ep1 *sigh* Some people just wont budge, no matter what the critics say %)

3. There are a lot of really good movies out to compete with. Now although I do agree that there are a few big movies out now that some people would like to see more than starwars, namely Spiderman, Sum Of All Fears, and Insomnia… but I am not so inclined to agree with this reason, why? Remember Episode 1 had to compete with The Matrix and The Mummy! Yes, they were all in the theater together, and Episode 1 did very well.

It could of course be a mix of these reasons %) And most probably is, oh well it’s not all about money right? (*George Lucas comes and kills pl2 for saying that) Hehe…

NEXT! Ok, so I was reading one of my friend’s weblogs (Leslie2003) and she started doing this band review thing, and although I am not gonna do something like that ’cause I am too lazy (haha) it did get me thinking about bands I really like. I started thinking a lot about Radiohead, and how I really like them, and I am a bad fan ’cause I never have bought any of their cds (ah the age of the mp3). I havent been a fan of their’s forever, only since about ’99, I had heard Karma Police and Creep before that of course but could never place them *shrugs* I have a bunch of their songs now, old and new… They also remind me of my wild days back in Rochester, HAHA… ok it was 2 weeks of keg parties and experimentation, but there was this guy who was totally obsessed with Radiohead… anyway we ended up hanging out til 3 am listening to radiohead, drinking screwdrivers and smoking (smoking what? Hey I dont want to incriminate myself!!!)… So I guess, even though I really liked radiohead before that little experience, it has made me like the band even more, funny how experiences like that can make you feel different about a certain band/type of musik…

Well that’s all for now, I have some work to do **hugs**

Ok… I guess I’ll just keep up this log til I feel like I am not bored anymore to continue it %D

Hmm, so today I spent way too much time doing those little quizzes, you know, the ones that give you a little link and tell you you are some sort of mythical creature or dessert? Yeah, well it wasnt too enlightening *sigh* So another day wasted…

I actually thought about making a book review part of my site, on the suggestion actually of my boyfriend (my souper MykBevski!!!), I was reading the other night and he mentioned something about a review of each book I finish, since I spend so much time doing it and he doesnt have much time to read. Ah well I thought about it and that’s not a bad idea… I wrote up a couple last night of some books I read recently, hmmm, maybe I should post the reviews here AND on my webpage… if anyone bothers to read this ever anyway %) Hehe…

Hrm… can’t think of anything else to write…

Oy… I started this just for fun.. I prolly wont continue to use it, and there is no way for me to delete my account, hmm… %)