{"id":197,"date":"2003-08-04T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=197"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"new-perl-irssi-script-my-cousin-has-cancer-100-no-wait-80-things-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2003\/08\/new-perl-irssi-script-my-cousin-has-cancer-100-no-wait-80-things-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"New perl irssi script, my cousin has cancer, 100 no wait.. 80 things about me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>o\/` Miranda Sex Garden &#8211; Inferno o\/`<\/p>\n<p>Cargo kitty went home this morning *sniff* I miss him already! I don&#8217;t miss the furry mess he made though, I spent the morning cleaning the apartment, I&#8217;m still doing laundry %) We had a nice weekend with him, he slept in our bed with us at night, mostly&#8230; sometimes wanted to keep us awake by jumping on the bed, hehe. He&#8217;s such an awsome cat, I&#8217;m glad we can have him over to play some weekends!<\/p>\n<p>We never did get to go out to the park for a walk yesterday, it ended up raining *sigh* S&#8217;ok though, I had a nice relaxing afternoon anyway.<\/p>\n<p>-@PrincessLeia2- !weather 19454<br \/>\n&#8211; R2A6- <b>Current Conditions for North Wales, PA:<\/b> Cloudy <b>Temp:<\/b> 79 F\/26 C <b>Visability:<\/b> 1.2 miles <b>Barometer:<\/b> 29.95 inches and steady<\/p>\n<p>-@PrincessLeia2- !weather 00000<br \/>\n&#8211; R2A6- Sorry, no weather for your location, please type !weather zipcode<\/p>\n<p>I wrote up this bot this morning. It&#8217;s a pretty simple perl script for irssi, it uses a perl module called <a href=\"http:\/\/freshmeat.net\/projects\/geoweather\/\">Geo::Weather<\/a> which goes to a specific weather.com page (defined by the zip code you provide) and grabs the specific info from it. It&#8217;s nice and fast. A friend of mine suggested I write a forcast thing for it&#8230; but there are no modules out to do that! I&#8217;d need to do it from scratch *eeek* &#8230; I dunno, it might be worth it as far as a learning experience goes. *shrugs*<\/p>\n<p>After a friend recently mentioned his interest in skydiving, I decided to try and contact my Aunt Meg, because she has been into skydiving quite extensively for the past few years, and she&#8217;d know everything there is to know for a beginner (she keeps begging me to go sometime *ugh*). I emailed her but the email was returned (bad address). So I emailed a cousin of mine that same day and asked her if she knew my Aunt&#8217;s current email address. She said she&#8217;d ask my grandparents&#8230; oh and by the way &#8220;Have you heard any news about Brad?&#8221; Brad is my Aunt Meg&#8217;s son, and probably one of my cousins who I know the least. Well I was a bit anxious to hear her reply, news? Good news? Bad news? Well yesterday afternoon I got an email back from her, bad news.<lj-cut> Apparently he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/docroot\/CRI\/content\/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_nasopharyngeal_cancer_17.asp\">nasopharyngeal cancer<\/a>. He was living in California, but when they found out that he was sick he was moved to a hospital in Boston so he could be closer to family. The doctors are optimistic, although this is a particularly nasty form of cancer, he is young and they believe things will be alright. He&#8217;s currently undergoing radiation and chemotherapy to try and drive out the cancer, so it&#8217;s been a very stressful time for everyone involved. I am glad they are optimistic, but I still think it would be a good idea if Myk and I seriously planned a trip up to Boston and made time to see Brad&#8230; I may not be close to him, but family is family, and they can use all the support we all can offer.<\/p>\n<p>So sad, I hate cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eh&#8230; now for something more uplifting. I saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/home.aspx?user=Reichelle\">Reichelle<\/a>&#8216;s journal that she had done a little &#8220;100 facts about me&#8221; thing, that&#8217;s an interesting idea. I think while I do laundry I&#8217;ll type up one for myself, just because writing about myself is fun.<\/p>\n<p><b><strike>100<\/strike> 80 Things You May Or May Not Know About Me<\/b><br \/>\n1. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia &#8230; but from the age of 2 I grew up in Maine.<br \/>\n2. I am the oldest of 3 daughters.<br \/>\n3. My parents were married for 19 years before getting a divorce in 2000.<br \/>\n4. I moved out of my parent&#8217;s house 5 days after I got my driving license (I was 18).<br \/>\n5. While growing up I had a bedroom full of animals, mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils, chinchillas, guinea pigs&#8230; and we bred many them for a local pet store.<br \/>\n6. I&#8217;m allergic to rosehips.<br \/>\n7. I once had a seizure while in my high school english class, later found to be caused by the migrane\/depression medication I was taking.<br \/>\n8. I have problems with depression, but I&#8217;m not taking medication for i<br \/>\nt.<br \/>\n9. I have lived in 4 states in my life, Georgia, Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania.<br \/>\n10. My father is an alcoholic.<br \/>\n11. My mother married the manager of an egg farm in Winthrop, Maine and now lives with him and my youngest sister in a house on the farm property.<br \/>\n12. I got online in 1998 with roadrunner cable internet, yes, cable in &#8217;98, Southern Maine was a testing ground for it.<br \/>\n13. Although I have always had an interest in computers, it wasn&#8217;t until I got online in 1998 that the interest blossomed into something concrete.<br \/>\n14. I&#8217;m very shy in social situations where I feel the need to impress.<br \/>\n15. I can be very outgoing in business situations.<br \/>\n16. I belive in a &#8220;greater force&#8221; (god?) but I do not belong to any particular religion.<br \/>\n17. I have had 4 boyfriends in my life, all of which I met online.<br \/>\n18. I love to bake.<br \/>\n19. I enjoy knitting.<br \/>\n20. I love cats.<br \/>\n21. I own two web domains, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\">princessleia.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallaceandgromit.net\">wallaceandgromit.net<\/a>.<br \/>\n22. I have been unemployed since November of &#8217;01.<br \/>\n23. I am part owner and administrator of <a href=\"http:\/\/network.xelium.net\">the xelium IRC network<\/a>.<br \/>\n24. I am co-coordinator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/phillychix\/\">Philly Chix<\/a>, the Philadelphia Chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxchix.org\">Linux Chix<\/a>.<br \/>\n25. I currently use Debian linux on my main workstation, but started out on Red Hat 7.2 in late 2001.<br \/>\n26. I can hold my own with MySQL, I can vouch for &#8220;knowing some perl&#8221; and I&#8217;m pretty good with PHP.<br \/>\n27. A lot of people come to me for advice, all of which I give based on personal experience.<br \/>\n28. I was 17 the first time I got drunk, and was with my Aunt Elaine in Philadelphia at the time.<br \/>\n29. I have lived with a number of relatives since leaving home in &#8217;00.<br \/>\n30. I worked at a gas station and supported myself for about 18 month while living in Seneca Falls, New York.<br \/>\n31. I have a phobia of birds.<br \/>\n32. I love to go out for dinner.<br \/>\n33. Sushi and chocolate are two of my favorite things.<br \/>\n34. I tend to be a bit of a late bloomer.<br \/>\n35. My favorite colors are pink, purple and blue.<br \/>\n36. I tend to be very hard on myself.<br \/>\n37. I love going to LAN parties with friends.<br \/>\n38. I used to like to draw, but sorta got out of it&#8230;<br \/>\n39. I have never been to a rock concert.<br \/>\n40. I&#8217;ve only been to one keg party.<br \/>\n41. The one time I went to Disney World I got sick because of the heat and was in First Aid the whole day.<br \/>\n42. I don&#8217;t know, and never have known, much about pop culture.<br \/>\n43. Carrot cake is my favorite kind of cake.<br \/>\n44. The only console game systems I have ever owned: NES, PS2.<br \/>\n45. I love to teach.<br \/>\n46. I am very interested in history.<br \/>\n47. I probably chat on IRC too much.<br \/>\n48. I tend to be a bit dependent and sometimes &#8220;clingy&#8221;<br \/>\n49. I have blue eyes.<br \/>\n50. I had long hair for most of my life, I cut off 18 inches in May and donated it to Locks Of Love.<br \/>\n51. I don&#8217;t like crowds.<br \/>\n52. I hate liars.<br \/>\n53. I tend to trust people quickly, which has hurt me many times in the past.<br \/>\n54. I graduted high school with a 93 GPA.<br \/>\n55. I love to swim.<br \/>\n56. I don&#8217;t like to drive.<br \/>\n57. I hate shopping, especially for clothes and shoes.<br \/>\n58. I often have trouble adjusting to change.<br \/>\n59. I am consistantly trying to improve myself as a whole person, I expend great effort in area.<br \/>\n60. I worry too much.<br \/>\n61. I am a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to some things.<br \/>\n62. I am a big Wallace and Gromit fan.<br \/>\n63. I am not a good leader.<br \/>\n64. I am not very musically inclined.<br \/>\n65. I read a lot.<br \/>\n66. I used to go down to see the ocean nearly every day while I was growing up.<br \/>\n67. When I drink beer it&#8217;s usually some sort of Belgian import.<br \/>\n68. I plan on visiting Europe someday.<br \/>\n69. I love to go hiking.<br \/>\n70. I don&#8217;t wear makeup.<br \/>\n71. I have trouble accepting compliments.<br \/>\n72. I have a large beanie baby collection.<br \/>\n73. I have a Camel, Penguin and Moose on top of my monitor.<br \/>\n74. I live with my boyfriend Myk, we&#8217;ve been dating for nearly 2 years.<br \/>\n75. I love fireplaces.<br \/>\n76. I was 17 when I had my first real &#8220;boyfriend&#8221;<br \/>\n77. I used to be a Girl Scout until my ent<br \/>\nire troop quit.<br \/>\n78. I played with My Little Ponies until 8th grade.<br \/>\n79. I have had trouble sleeping as long as I can remember.<br \/>\n80. I can&#8217;t think of anything else!<\/p>\n<p>Well that was fun, no one actually read that all did they? Hee. *wanders off*<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o\/` Miranda Sex Garden &#8211; Inferno o\/` Cargo kitty went home this morning *sniff* I miss him already! 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