I hate it when my browser crashes in the middle of an entry in here… *ugh* anyway, it’s friday… it’s seems like the week went by pretty quickly for me, I’m glad its the weekend tho %) Yesterday I ended up working on my neopets page (the eveey one, www.neopets.com/~eveey ).. then i submitted it to the webpage contest there… it’d be kewl if it won, the pages that win end up getting like 10000 hits.. I also tried to work on my mst3k page a little, but while trying to design a logo I just got bored ’cause I couldnt think of anything good… So I read in this perl book I have for a little bit… and wrote a couple short emails. It was pretty much a boring day. I did get a stomach ache and headache last night tho %( it sucked, ended up watching tv then going to bed earlyish (around 10:30) … I felt better this morning, but from about 4 am on I was tossing and turning in bed, I shouldnt go to sleep so early %(

Bleh… I dont feel like writing anymore, have nothing to write anyway…

I got an email from my sister, I guess my father got back from the hospital yesterday.. she said “he seems to be doing fine” it’s still all very strange and I’m sure I’ll never hear the whole story as to what happened. I guess my Aunt Meg is up there now taking care of things, cleaning up the house, etc… and my grandparents are going to help with the bills. So hopefully things will work out well. At least I’m not so worry anymore…

So yesterday I got a Magic:The Gathering page up on my website, you can see it here. It’s pretty cool I guess, I have a couple of my old decks up there…and a bunch of scanned cards. Yesterday I also started looking at some perl scripting for The GIMP (the image editing program developed for linux). It’s really interesting, there is a kewl “perl server” in GIMP that allows you to run a script as a normal unix run command from a prompt ./scriptname.pl … and it’ll launch it in gimp. This makes it much easier to test a script %) I dunno if I’ll pursue working on gimp scripts, but it would be a kewl way to learn more perl %)

I dunno what I’ll do today, maybe work on the mst3k part of my site.. I started it a while back and never ended up doing anything with it *shrugs* or maybe I’ll work on something else… In any event it’s a nice day out, so I’ll most definately take a walk.. even though the grass was just mowed here and I am sneezing like crazy, stupid allergies! I hate the spring/summer %( So anyway, yeah i’m off..

aww my little premium trial is gone, oh well… I’m not gonna pay what they were asking for the few services it provided, besides I’m poor.

Yesterday turned out to be not so cool. I got a call from the cousin of mine that lives down here in philly, and apparently my father is in the hospital again. No one is quite sure what exactly happened, and for some time they didn’t even know where he was.. still arent completely sure since the hospital he said he was at isnt saying anything… its a really messed up situation and has me really worried. I guess part of it is the whole “growing up and seeing you’re elders’ weaknesses” thing. It’s been really hard seeing my father go downhill with his health, and it’s mostly his fault… I feel frustrated an angry that he’s not taking care of himself the way he should. There is nothing I can do about it though, so I shouldnt get so stressed out about it, but like I mentioned previously in another post, I can’t really help it! *sigh* I guess I will just wait and see what happens with this all.

Next week my cousin is going up to see her parents in NH, she offered to drive me up to maine to see my family. I guess most of my dad’s family is really wanting me to go up there, but I dunno… Myk couldnt come of course because he has work, and I’d miss him so much… plus I am not sure I want to see my family again so soon… but then I think I am not sure when the next chance to go up would be. I dunno… if I do go up I know I’ll have a miserable time seeing my father in that condition… I could see my friend Leslie from high school if I go up there, gah, I dunno.. I should really make up my mind soon, since i’d be leaving like, sunday or monday. I am so indecisive %(

Hmm what else… ohyeah, one of my ex boyfriends is a father now. His wife has a son on July 5th… I’m happy for him, just hope things work out for him and his wife (see, he’s 30 and she’s 19…). And it’s good to see that all my ex’s arent complete fucking psychos… I had really low self esteem ok!? At least I finally saw the light and went after the guy I had had a crush on forever %)

I guess that’s it for now, I am working on part of my webpage, a new Magic The Gathering page about the 2 years I played Magic, and posting pics of my cards that arent worth a freaking thing and I spent lots of money on… ho hum.. %)

So it’s noonish, another day when I am doing pretty much nothing… *sigh* I feel so worthless %) Oh I did get those 4th of July pics up tho… heh, after all that waiting I get a camera full of fuzzy pics. The camera used to work better, I swear! Stupid cheap digital camera… Oh well there are some ok pics, so they’re up if anyone is interested, which I doubt, I only write this weblog thing for myself anyway, hehehe.

4th Of July LAN Pictures

Anyway, I think I am gonna go play with my neopets webpages.. ’cause I wanna add more stuff before I enter one of them into the webpage contest.. *wanders off*

Well I’m back. I didn’t end up doing anything meaningful today. I dont think I got any work done, but I guess that’s the way mondays always are.. If I dont have specific direction I just end up wandering around in circles aimlessly trying to spend the time left of the day. I did stumble upon an interesting site in my travels however:

http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/


It’s an IRC quote site, you submit funny quotes from irc and they are weeded through, and the funniest ones are put up on the site. I went looking through them, and on a whim did a search for my nickname… and there was actually a quote from me!! Ahh… I have a terrible friend out there %) … want to know the quote? Bleh! Go there and see for yourself, search for “PrincessLeia2” … anyway, I submitted a few this morning from the #13thHour quotes pages, some of my favorite funny ones. So that was about an hour of fun %)

Later I was sitting in #13thHour, minding my own business when this guy comes in and pm’s me saying he just wanted to ask me a question. I was like “ok, shoot” and he goes “Where are they hiding all of the wonderfully talented and amazing geek women these days?” At this point I was like “ugh” and my hand was moving toward the kick button. The last thing I needed was some perv being obsessed with me again. But I left him go on, and made it quite clear that I had a boyfriend. He turned out to be a really nice guy, and messaged me ’cause he liked my site and wanted to invite me to a LAN party. Apparently he lives in a town like 15 minutes away, and is arranging this SummerFest LAN party at a cabin in his town. I guess he was looking for gamers in the area to randomly invite, and he was bored so was looking for people to talk to. So he invited me, and Myk of course, and as many people as I can gather up to go play at a lan party in like 2 weeks. It’s a whole weekend thing, sounds pretty cool %) I’ll talk to Myk about it, maybe we’ll end up going… Anyway, I guess this guy found my webpage and my usual haunts (#13thHour on the scifi server) through ICQ pages… which I rarely update, but just happened to last month. So he’s on my ICQ now, and I have his email addy, if anything meeting new people is kewl, and even if we can’t go to this LAN party it’d be cool to hang out sometime, someone in real life, wow. Then again he IS my age… older by only about a month or so, and he loves games n stuff… does php and sql stuff for his page, I’d have a hard time convincing Myk that it was strictly friendship, bleh %( I hate being a girl geek sometimes. Oh well, Myk is just gonna have to see one of these days that I’m absolutely crazy about him, and my interests just happen to be more common among men than women. Really, if I could find a woman who shared my interests she’d prolly be my best friend, but it’s just highly unlikely… most the geek girls I have ever met didn’t want other female friends, and didn’t want to share all the attention they got from men… ho hum.

Moving on, something really strange happened this weekend that I keep meaning to mention but keep forgetting about. On saturday, Myk’s birthday, I went outside to take the trash out (it was Myk’s birthday, I didnt want him doing it, hehe), and it was all foggy out, which isnt too abnormal, but it smelled like smoke. I came back into the apartment and told Myk, and he just thought I was being silly til he went out and smelled and saw it. We just shrugged and assumed someone had a BBQ or something AND there was fog. So sunday I was wandering around Yahoo! And came to the weather, the current forcast gave a tempurature and instead of a “partly cloudy” or “raining” or “sunny” picture on the current conditions it had “Smoke”.. I all of a sudden remembered how weird it was outside on saturday and then I noticed the severe weather report… it turns out the report was about the smoke! Apparently here have been big fires up in Quebec, and the smoke has been drifting as far south as the carolinas. Noew I am sure this is not new to people who keep up with News and stuff, but I don’t %) … It’s just so weird. I guess today most of it’s gone away, that’s what the weather report said, and when I stepped out for a bit today it seemed to be gone… but it was quite strange while it lasted %)

Hmmm… oh I’m almost done with the 4th book in that 5 book David Eddings series, I have about 40 pages left… I’ll probably finish that tonight… it’s a really good story, yes, this from the formally “science fiction not fantasy!” fan… and I am gonna read the 3rd Wheel Of Time book next… bleh, what’s become of me? hehe… I think I am gonna start shopping at discount book stores though, with how quickly I am getting through books, even spending half the price for a used book would be worth it, I dont *need* my books to be new… and I’m used to trading in old books that i’ve read for new ones, that’s what I had to do all through high school while my mother did everything in her power to discourage me reading (she is a weird mother…. she’d say stuff like “why do you need more books? you havent even read the ones you have!” … why do I need more books?! That’s a silly question, arent parents supposed to support their children’s reading habits?? oh well…). Anyway, yeah, discount bookstores.

Ah something else I remembered I kept meaning to write about (uh this post is getting pretty long… I think I found out why I worry about anything and everything so much, or at least an excuse… It seems to run in the family, the Krumbach side. I was talking to my cousin, who lives down here, recently and she was talking about how she was worrying so much about her job, and then joked about how she worrys about everything way too much and goes crazy ’cause he boyfriend just doesnt seem to care most of the time. Then she said that her mother is the same way, my aunt was all stressed out ’cause she’s worried about little things that she cant do anything about. And that’s when I was like “so that’s where I get it from!” My unnaturally insane size of my worry load is genetic, lol… ok so it’s probably a mental thing, that’s not healthy, but at least I have an explaination for it (other than I’m friggin crazy)…

Well I guess I’m gonna go play with my neopets or something ’cause that’s what I do when I’m bored… Myk should be home within an hour anyway, I’ll prolly make spagetti since we dont have much else, ugh and I hate grocery shopping %( Oh well… I’m out.

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