So it’s hot again today (did I mention yesterday that it was terribly hot out? Well we broke down and turned the a/c back on, yay! So it’s not unbarably hot in here anymore %) We did find out where our little ant problem came from (somewhat)… oh did I explain the ant problem? Well, since moving in we have had all sorts of ants, in the bathroom, computer room and a few in the dining room, each time Myk (who HATES bugs) has gone all crazy cleaning spree, I mean our place is really clean anyway (cept for my desk) but this is like, bleach and moving everything cleaning. Spraying tons of ant spray, putting down traps, etc. And nothing has worked, even the exterminater that came like 3 months ago didnt seem to help. So today when Myk went to work he found TONS of ants by our front door, apparently they must be getting in somehow from their swarms (what do you call a group of ants?) outside, and getting in through cracks n stuff to get in our house. Yuck! I called the leasing office this morning to see if we could get an exterminator to come and take a look, I am getting a bit sick of bugs AND raid fumes.. even if it is “Unscented” or “Country Fresh” Raid, it still gives me headaches. Anyway, I went outside this morning, with a can of raid, and sprayed around the front door, in an effort to thwart their entrance for the time being, and stupidly I let the door close behind me. So there I am, it’s 85 degrees out, a can of Raid in my hand and I cant get into my apartment. SO I put the can down and walked up to the leasing office and signed out a key to my apartment. It’s only a 5 minute walk, but with 50% humidity and how hot it was it wasnt exactly pleasant. So I got back here, grabbed my key and brought the other one back to the leasing office, after which I was very hot and crankie, hehe.

Speaking of crankie I got annoyed by this kid I devoiced in #13thHour yesterday (in #13thour our chat is moderated, meaning you can only talk if we give you voice)… See, i was giving this kid a chance ’cause he had a friend or two in the room, but then yesterday he msg’ed me, all coming on to me n stuff and i was like “uhhh, no?” THEN he sent me to a site with pictures of him on it, and then to a “special page” where it showed naked pics of him!!! EWWW, luckily he warned me of this before I even thought of going, pics of naked 15 year olds isnt exactly something I enjoy *gross* … So then my little sis comes in the room and he shows HER the pictures!!! My little sis is only 13!!! When I found this out I was so pissed that I devoiced him. SO then this morning he comes into the room, without being able to talk, and just stays there… then he messages me “you should get a firewall” and OBVIOUS threat. So I kicked him from the room, so sick of his crap. Then he starts pm’ing me with all this “you are a whore” “you are ugly” “you have no friends” traditional lamer crap… on top of all this he spoofed the room (joined so he could see what we were saying but we couldnt see him), unfortunately for him I can see spoofs with the chat client I am using, so I just kept kicking him. It was just annoying, not the type of crap I want to deal with, that’s why my room is moderated! Freaking kids… On the bright side I reported his page to geocities under “pornography/nakedness” So he hopefully wont be terrorizing anymore girls with that crap.

Hmmm… oh I probably havent mentioned my reading habits lately (oh god I’m boring)… but I finished book 2 and 3 of The Malloreon series that I was reading, of course I mentioned earlier that I dont have book 4… so i ordered it from bn.com (barnes & noble), as well as the third wheel of time book… ’cause if you buy 2 or more items you get free shipping, so it turns out to be cheaper than actually going to the store, no tax! So I got an email today that those were shipped today, should get here within 3-8 business days. In the meantime I looked on my shelf to find something I hadnt read, and found Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno. Well it pretty much sucks. Maybe I am too used to reading really good, best selling type books that something like this really shocked me? I guess I’ll say a bit about it (if I can) … It’s very VERY confusing, on page 85 the book asks you “are you still with us? Here is a recap…” from what I gather it’s “written” by these alien jellyfish things that live inside all the characters of the story’s minds. Yep. Bonanno, isnt that the name of a former NYC crime boss or something? Yeah, is THAT why she got her book published?! I searched amazon.com to see if this book was even still in print, and there are two sequals! I read some of the reviews, and although most of them say it’s good, I tend to agree with this reader:

“I have a hard time even describing how much I disliked this book. It is, hands down, the worst book I have read in years…boring, boring, boring.”

I am not sure I’ll finish it. It alludes to star trek type scifi in some of the characters, and I’m really not into that. Yuck!

So after telling Myk how stupid the book was last night he pulled down a could books by Robert Anton Wilson. Apparently he’s a social philosopher (i guess that’s what you’d call him) who explores the mind in his own views… reaching from the depths of existance to pull up reasons for how we think, etc. It’s very entertaining, funny at times, and deadly serious at others. SO i’m currently reading Quantum Psychology and although some of the references to psychologists allude me(with the exception of freud of course) he makes understanding his point very easy for most anyone. Apparently he has come under lots of critizism since he has non-traditonal views, but it’s all very interesting, and I’m pretty much open to most things, this is really kewl… and it’s not very long, I might read it again after this to get stuff I missed the first time around. Its definately one of those books I should read every year or so… I’ll have to look into more about this author…

Hmmm what else? Bleh this is long! Hehe… OH! The official release date for that goddamned patch is friday. It took them over 1 1/2 weeks to release it! Big meanies, in the meantime I have a whole week where I cant even access my site, AND other sites are being DoS’ed waiting for this stupid patch *grumbles* Anyway, I guess I can stop my complaining since at least they have a release date now… Now hopefully they will have it out by then, or I’ll be screaming again, hehe.

I guess that’s it for noew (heh, long entry!) I am gonna go wander off and study summore perl, because I need to and I havent been, I’ve been doing things like playing with my neopet and playing with cute images, lol.. oh and writing in my goddamned weblog ;)…

Happy Birthday Winter!

Well it’s my lil sisski winter’s birthday. She’s one of those people who doesnt say much when it is her birthday… so I was actually unsure I had the right date written down until I actually asked her, heh. Anyway, she’s a pretty cool girl, hates windows so we are trying to get her to go to the linux side, she’s on aol tho… so she’s gonna have to change her ISP, but she said thats not a problem… It’ll be kewl trying to help someone with it %) I just wish Syntopicon would come back so I had someone else to talk to about it… heh.

Hmmm it’s freaking hot today, weather.com tells me it’s 90°, ick. We had the a/c off most of the day, most of the week actually since we got a pretty evil looking electric bill recently, heh. But it’s so hot today I’d cook if I didnt turn it on! It’s definately a day I’d wander down to the pool if I had a bathing suit *sigh*

So I’ve been talking to people, and playing with my NeoPets site… well, working on it on my computer first, I will put it up when my site is back and I have somewhere to upload my pictures (yes, my site is still down)… Speaking of which, I was really crankie when I wrote that last entry, lol, poor sun, being the subject of my heat induced crankie wrath!

So I had a pretty good laugh this morning, from a topic in a romm i dont actually chat in, and I dont much like the people there, but this was just too funny: http://daishan.malkier.net/?p=vhol&i=Wraith apparently this know-it-all jackass came in with all this bs… kept saying the stupidest things, obviously he didnt know what he was talking about (concerning computers and the irc.scifi.com irc network)… I was literally in tears! So if anyone reading this knows anything about computers n stuff it’s pretty entertaining %)

Hmmm so I’ve been playing this one neopets game (most of the games are rips of old arcade games… with cute little animals, geared to a new generation of mostly females…) It’s just like that old game Nibbles… I forgot how freaking addictive that game was %)

Anyway… I’m gonna wander off again… bbl

Happy sunday… well guess what! My site is STILL down… bastards need to release the patch NOEW!!! s’fucking annoying, see, not only does this site need images hosted on my webserver, but also a couple other sites, and it’s really frustrating that I cant have them because sun wont get off it’s ass and write a freaking patch.

*Sigh* It’s so hot out today… we arent turning on the a/c til it’s really needed since our electric bill was so high last month, stupid summer! Oh well… that’s enough of an entry today, I am gonna go read ’cause it’s tooooo hot in here.

Oh wow, I am so late at writing this entry that it’s tomorrow already, oops. Well I guess it’s not to terribly late to say happy birthday to my broski Rich.

Happy Birthday Thrawnski!

‘Cept his bday was the 22nd, hehe…

Anyway I actually went out today, hung out with people n stuff… Our friend Ed has a pool and he sorta had a pool party and bbq so that was kewl, we stayed for a couple hours. Myk got to play Munch on the xbox, hehe, that game is great..too bad the xbox sucks (evil microsoft!!!). I felt kinda weird today tho, prolly after-affects of the headache I went to bed with last night, so I was pretty zoned out most of the day. An aquaintance of ours asked if I was ok, I was like “oh, yeah i’m fine” .. then another friend was like, “yeah, she’s just one of those quiet people” … heh, I guess I havent changed *all* that much huh?

I had fun tho, didnt swim because of my lack of a bathing suit, I just havent had a chance to get one *shrugs* I did get to see eris and duncan, ed’s kitties, they are so cute! Hehe…

Bleh, well I’m out… and I know… my site’s still down *sigh* Hopefully that’ll be remedied soon…

Oh and I almost forgot! I tried Vanilla Coke today an interesting experience… it’s like Coke and Cream Soda mixed… so if you like cream soda (I have to be in the mood for it) then you’ll prolly like this… Of course I had never heard of it til today, leave it to me to be that oblivious to modern soda culture… hehehe

So my webpage is still down, which obviously has me pretty bummed… Oh and we got the electric bill, no more A/C all day! Unless it’s really hot, so it’s getting pretty warm in here, I guess I could go to another room, since I know the computers are what cause most of the heat in here, but that would not be any fun. I’m just drinking lots of water and trying to keep myself occupied, it’s supposed to be in the 80s for the next week at least, ugh, I miss Maine, hehe.

So with my site down, what was I doing all day? I was playing games with my neopets ok!!! Yep, the sad sad world of my life, I have 3 neopets. The only reason I dont just kill myself now (that’s sarcasm folks, geez), is ’cause I know a guy online who has neopets too, and he’s older than me and he’s not gay, hehehe. So I am sure I am not the only college age person with one.. *ahem* so yes, I spent like most of the morning and half the afternoon playing with them. I got a bit carried away with Blackjack tho (no one told me card games were addictive!!!), I ended up losing half my money… not that it matters much, you can get it back by playing free games n stuff. I even went as far as working on their little webpages. I still probably will when I finish this and realize how insanely bored I am again. Unfortunately since my webserver is down (ugghhhh!!!) I cant make my own banners n stuff yet for the sites if I do decide to create them. Geez I have no life.

No wait! Tomorrow we are going somewhere where there are people n stuff. One of our friends has a pool and he’s sorta having a pool party tomorrow. Of course I dont have a bathing suit, and I’m so insanely self concious I prolly wouldnt swim anyway, but it’s a great excuse %D I guess they wanna play D&D too, they will prolly beg Myk and I to play. And being a geek, I have played *once* but that was a while ago and playing a couple sessions definately doesnt get one used to playing a game… luckily I played Vampire The Maquarade quite extensively so I *do* know how rpg’s usually play out. Myk on the otherhand (being the cool guy that he is) has never played. How did I end up with a guy who is only recently turned geek? Hehehe. It’s like when we went to the midnight showing of starwars, I was probably the only girl that dragged her boyfriend to it instead of vice versa… bleh, anyway… I dont really wanna play but Myk had mentioned to them that he might sit in for a session sometime, and I guess tomorrow will be a pretty good opportunity. Plus it’s a good reason to get out of the house for the day and not spend lots of money, hehe.

Hmmmm in other news, Lilo and Stitch comes out today… ah I remember back in the day when I went to see every disney movie opening day… for Hercules we even went to a special expensive sneak peek a week early. We got a neat commemorative pin n stuff (which i scanned, but of course i cant post ’cause my website is down!!!)… too bad the movie sucked. Anyway, I dunno if Lilo and Stitch will be any better, but dispite my slacking in seeing disney movies on opening day I have seen them all in the theater… Atlantis I saw at a drive in, double feature with Pearl Harbor… I guess seeing both those movies was sorta worth the $5 I paid. Anyway, I’ll have to drag Myk to see it with me since we never got to see Ice Age, and we havent been to the theater since StarWars, and I am a movie theater going fiend! Must. Have. Fix. %) Anyway… I am gonna go wander off and do nothing again, oh maybe I’ll work on that perl tutorial a bit and pick out pieces from madragorans shitfi.pl xchat script to see if I can figure it out with my expanded perl knowledge. Or I could just play with my neopets.

Ok, time for a pissed off rant! So I’m logging onto Audiogalaxy this afternoon because I have never heard “Jimmy Eat World” before (I’m serious, I dont listen to the radio, what can I say?), so I think “hey, maybe I’ll go grab a couple mp3s and see if I like” … WELL they’ve gone the way of napster!!! Fucking (am I allowed to say that? Heehee) recording agency sued them (well i knew that) and apparently they were like “ok, we will stop being bad” So noew you cant get a friggin thing! Not even music from artists on mp3.com! Legitimately free mp3s!!! Plus it spams you with like every click. Now, you may ask “duh just use kazaa or something” .. well you see, kazaa decided to go all homo microsoft on us and now the linux port of their software doesnt work, and I am not going to be forced to booting into windows for a day just for the chance that an mp3 download might decide to finish. Audiogalaxy was the only mp3 thing I could get running in linux, and now they’ve gone all stupid on me! Maybe I should just give up on popular music all together ’cause I have so much contempt for the recording agency. No I wont calm down!!! It’s very annoying that they decide to limit technology like this, to the extent where even when the artists want their mp3s to be free they can’t be.

In other news my site is still down, but if you are seeing this site you can probably tell that since it’s pictureless. I wrote up a little 9.11 page for my site ’cause I kept meaning to, but I’ve been lazy, and I guess my list of things “i gotta put on my site” is pretty long %) … anyway… I think i am gonna go read or something ’cause I dont feel like sitting here writing anymore

Ah a new day… Freaking lawn monkeys here at the apartment complex decided to start work at like 7 am… So my nose is all sniffly, stupid grass!! %) So yesterday my computer problems didnt simply end with the crap I explained… Myk came home and was able to fix my monitor problem. One of the pins was bent… prolly was just bent enough so when I cleaned around my desk yesterday afternoon it knocked it out of place enough to get weird, then prolly got bent more when i pulled it out and tried to plug it back in. But the computer problems continued with an exploit that made us have to shut down our websites, unless we wanted to risk our sites getting all fuxz0red. *sigh!!* So this xanga site is a mess as well, seeing as my images were all hosted on my webserver. Hopefully Cobalt will release the patch today so we can get the sites back up… Maybe I just shouldnt have gotten up yesterday? %) Well I guess I’ll go grab some breakfast n stuff…

*Sigh* … seemed like today would be so boring and basic like all the rest, but noooo all computers had to hate me today! This morning wasnt so bad, but this afternoon was awful.. first clockbot (our win2k print/scan/musik server) crashed, prolly ’cause I was playing mp3s on win media player all day and it didnt like that. So I rebooted that, and it’s fine… THEN I wandered off to clean up some stuff, and I came back and my screensaver was on, like normal. I moved my mouse and my screen was all redless!!! NO RED!!! It’s all tealish noew %( Still %( … I tried all sorts of things rebooting, unplugging stuff and plugging it back in.. I dont know what’s wrong, I DIDNT TOUCH ANYTHING, it was just on screensaver!!! And red just leaves, I dont know if it lost red while the screensaver was on or when it turned off ’cause I didnt really pay much attention and the screensaver is pretty blue anyway, ugh %(! I hope it’s not my monitor going, I can afford to get another one, but I was sorta hoping to get a new processor and motherboard, and of course not spend as much as a new freaking monitor will cost *sigh!!*

In better news I got that windows keybindings in linux page done for my site, the instructions… you can find them here. I also made this cute little graphic for it

I also wrote up a little thing about the stats of my computer, hardware-wise..

r2d2 is:

450 mhz Pentium 3

100 mhz bus motherboard

512 mb sd-ram (two 256 chips)

SB Live! Soundcard

Nvidia GeForce 3 Graphics Card

3Com 10/100 Network Card

48x CD-Rom Drive

3.5″ Floppy drive

Logitech iTouch Cordless Keyboard

Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse

Basic harman/kardon Speakers

Compaq V410e Monitor

Yep, so that’s been my day pretty much. I hope this evening is better… maybe I’ll ask Myk if we can get pizza or something for dinner. As for right now I’m gonna grab a glass of chocolate milk and read, ’cause being on a computer is very depressing when it’s missing red, not only because I know something is messed up, but because it’s all blue and I cant read anything in red!

*Yawn* So I dont even know how much sleep I got last night… but it wasn’t much. I went to bed around midnight… woke up around 2.. sorta dozed til around 4, when I got up and played around online for a little bit, putting up a survey for the 13thhour page and stuff. I guess I wandered back to bed around 5:30… dozed for a little while, pretty much was awake by 7:30.. so I spent the morning reading. Now i’m all drowsy, I hate this insomnia crap!!! I had been sleeping well I guess til last night…

Anyway, I cleaned the kitchen and bathroom this afternoon, fun fun, now my hands smell like bleach, I hate that .. no matter how many times I wash them, ick… It’s hotish out again today, I love central air conditioning %) I dont have to expose myself to the real weather, hehehe. God, I hate how lack of sleep makes me zone off so much o_O I guess I’ll wander around now and try to figure out how I bound those windows keys, I really wish I had written down the instructions when I did it, ’cause I was looking last night with little to no luck, ugh. Oh… I do have good news about a new potential linux convert %D! This girl has a slowish computer and windows crashes on it so much to make it almost unusable… she’s gonna check on how good her vid card is and maybe decide to install redhat %) Luckily since her machine sucks so bad on windows she has very few demands as far as a computer goes (word processor, internet, and image program)… And basic x can handle that %) … Unfortunately she uses icky AOL… but she says she can change to a different dial up company if she decides to go through with it. Ah did I mention that she’s 14? %) Yes, enticing a whole new generation to join us! Mwahahaha… erm… heh.. right %)

I hate it when my webbrowser crashes and I lose a big post that I was writing, possibly the first time I didnt back it up, bleh!! *Bonks Opera* Ughh… well I will start over then. I actually did end up getting some work done today %) I was bored at first so I was surfing some xanga sites, and I stumbled upon a kewl one with a link to a .tk site. Well, curious as to what country .tk was I followed the link on the site to the .tk main site (www.dot.tk) .. Well apparently it’s a small Pacific island near Western Samoa, called Tokelau. It’s a country, and is inhabited by fewer than 1500 people, and, being quite a poor unknown nation, they decided to sell and give away their domains. This is so cool… The free domains you can get are pretty much address forwarding things (you need to have a webpage, first, by typing in the domain you are forwarded to your site), but there are other packages, ranging from $10-$25.. With the free one you dont actually have legal ownership, and if you dont get enough traffic (30 hits per 90 days) they will take it away from you… but that’s quite reasonable %) And as far as banners are concerned, you choose to have them on! That’s right… you dont *have* to have your site have .tk banners on it, but there are contests and other incentives to doing so %)

Now the point of all that was not just rambling to tell everyone to get their own free domain, or to plug their for pay services… it was to say, I have www.13thHour.tk !!! And I’m pretty happy about it, obviously. I’ve been looking at 13thHour.com for quite some time noew, and have been frustrated that some meanie-head is holding it, and trying to sell it for at least $200. Hell no! And the other popular 13thHour releted sites out there are taken, so this is the next best thing %) I made the site load faster, ’cause I realized that all the images on it made it take forever if you are on dial up. So it’s a more friendly page altogether now.

So that was my big exciting news of the day. Oh, I bound my windows keys here in linux a few months back, and I just got around to telling Myk last night (I could have sworn I told him before that tho…)… Well I was gonna write up a “how to” for it ’cause pressing alt + windows key to open opera (or any other application) in linux (enlightenment desktop) is just SO COOL. Not only am I thwarting microsoft’s evilness by replacing their stupid key with a virtual compeditor, I am also making otherwise useless keys for me useful %) but I am sorta running out of time today so I guess I’ll work on those instructions tomorrow, hopefully they might be useful to someone, someday.

Hmmm what else… oh I walked up to the store today, fun fun… I bought a couple birthday cards, one for my penpal lucy, and another for a chat friend of mine. It’s the least I can do, seeing as I was completely out of touch from the rest of the world for a couple years ;) Too bad greeting cards are so freaking expensive, hehe. I thought we should probably send out christmas cards this year as well… but then I started thinking “damn I am getting old! Old people send out christmas cards!” hehehehe. Oh well, I did send out some back when I was in high school, to a couple of my good friends, this isnt much different, ‘cept I am planning on sending them to relatives too, I guess that’s the old person part %)

Anyway, I guess I’m gonna go wander off, prolly making perogies with vegtables for dinner before going out to go grocery shopping (fun fun…). I hate grocery shopping, isnt there a service that you can give your shopping list to and they do the shopping for you? Hehe… people suck, and there are always people at the grocery store… Ok, %) bye.