the times of kryptoniteglows

That’s my shopping list… I just filled out the rebate form and stuck it in an envelope, but no stamps. It’s for a new wireless router for my new place :), I’m going to have to test it out though. I’m not sure if I’ll actually place in some physical wires through out the house by running some cat5e or let the wireless do it’s job. If I do place in wires, I’m going to have to do it like really soon because my dad is going to rip out the carpet for me… Still waiting on closing though, hope it is soon so I can save some gas. I feel like my house is kind of tiny more and more I think about it. I don’t know if it’s because it’s so empty now or what. Though I think it’s because it’s a ranch house that the lack of a second level or a basement makes it feel small… I’m going to give it a year and decide because it’s a good investment. Much better than say cars or something like that…

My mom has been really nice to me lately, as if some effort to get me to stay home. Normally she seems to whine and bitch to me about getting stuff done, but she’s has been relatively quiet and actually doing stuff for me unasked! It’s crazy, she did the laundry without yelling at me, actually cooked me food when I was hungry, did the dishes, and just other stuff!

My textbook bill actually comes out to over $700! I thought I was actually getting a good deal at the book store, but turns out that I actually didn’t get 2 things I need that I had ordered. Then they like super gouged me over a hundred and fifty bucks on this book that was listed at just over a hundred. The damn thing only has like 500 pages and I’m paying like out my ass for it! It better be a damn good book! Also, some book that I have been borrowing from a friend forever (sorry David) that I thought I could use for this semester is well now the old edition. I have to get the new edition now… So there skyrockets my bill! I’m a little pissed because there goes my paycheck!

Actually I placed the books on my credit card and I get a little extra time to pay for them because of that. I put them on there because I get some points back too, now I’m a few points closer to whatever stuff they reward me with for spending my money. If this has been on my debit card, I would have been mad pissed because my bills would be bouncing and all that… Of course I can’t blame them, I agreed to their terms of sales that the order total presented was only an estimation and that my actual total maybe greater or less… Damn fine print!

I guess I should give a review of the LAN on Saturday as well. The turnout was unexpected! I think Mike and I will agree that it far exceeded our expectations. It was one of those LANs that was really like the basement feel to it, where everyone was kind of just gaming for fun without lag. The LAN ended a bit earlier than previously scheduled because of the power issues we ran into. We had a good idea of everything going on this time, but I kind of feel we lacked in preparation in other areas. The circuit breaker room was locked this time and the hojos guy didn’t know anything about getting our power back. At some point, he started flipping all 30 of the breakers! Definitely some goals and stuff to do there once there is a time line. With Mike in Virginia, things are definitely a little quiet about Havok, but we are growing at a fairly rapid pace as well… An oxymoron or something I guess is what I just did…

Other stuff, some drunk dude jump/fell off the roof of the old bank and his head like exploded. Of course I didn’t witness this, but apparently there was all sorts of cops, fire fighters, ambulances, and other stuff for it. There was a clean up crew that had to like use chemicals to clean the stuff off the ground, eww!

Some AIM programmers with too much free time on their hands made AIMFight. I’m not popular enough :(.

I’ve been having weird dreams, I can’t really recall them, but they are strangely like realistic. I think I have like full conversations with people in them about stuff that we would talk about and it’s just well weird…

School starts Tuesday, I don’t even know what my classes are or what time they start. I’m going to have to update the PDA or just learn to read this calendar thing I made… I just realized I bought a new bookbag for no good reason, because when do I not have my laptop with especially when I have that C++ class? I’ve got to code! Or maybe not, I had to buy a smart card so I can use the Unix terminals, so maybe they have changed the system and SSH is no longer allowed? Grr…

Anyhow I’m gone on that the destination sometimes just doesn’t matter, it’s the journey that counts. Really dumb, but whatever…

Dell, why must you mess with me so? I ordered my 20” widescreen LCD last time and it was shipped the same day and I had it within 4 days of ordering. Now I order again and a WHOLE entire week later and the monitor has yet to ship! Well forget about me ordering dual 17” LCDs from you guys!!! (Yes I was going to go with a triple monitor setup because I’m an uber pimp geek like that)

I haven’t even learned C++ and I think I hate it already, I can’t ever seem to get past like first chapter of any C++ book, maybe it’s the ADHD at work…

I’ve been p3wed! If I had started working full time earlier, I would qualify for tuition reimbursement from work, but now I don’t until next semester! My 401K shit is messed up too, the system tells me they aren’t going to start contributing to it until November 2007! Um, wtf? But starting next month I’ll be getting medical and dental, yay I think? No more excluding me from dangerous activities because I don’t have insurance!

I feel a ton better about that whole Dave shit, his dense head should see why the fuck I’ve been so uber mad… If he doesn’t well I’ll just have to let the wrath of God take over because I’m tired of that shit. Constantly being hurt by him even though we are long done and over with.

Of course now I get to either be a bitch or slut… Don’t wanna fuck with anyone, but damn it I’m so unintentionally this “nymph” do either follow through with what I say and be a slut or be a bitch because I don’t… No win… In case you are wondering, I’ll be a bitch for now and I don’t care what the reason is, we aren’t really gonna fuck even if I brought it up….

Now some more geekiness…. I’m posting from my laptop over a remote connection to my desktop. Why? The A/C in the room with my desktop like died when the electric company came out to do some work on the lines and I don’t have anything installed on the laptop yet. But it sure does run hella fast without all my crap on there yet.

More random stuff, just saw my boobs and they are so white compared to the rest of tanned me… It’s so weird! At least it isn’t as bad as Matt’s feet, I’ll have to take a picture next time I see him because the 2 shades he has are like black and white in comparison.

Very last thing, added a class so I’m up to 5 classes. Go International Economics!

So I’m on the phone with tech support with Compaq, that they have outsourced to India and given the rep an English sounding name like “Mary”. I guess it’s not so bad, I can make out most of what she says. Anyhow, I’m calling because my screen has dead pixels! Like 8-10 of them! I don’t know if I had them from the beginning or not because I never bothered to check. However, since I’m now aware of it, I want it fixed of course! So going thru their diagnostic test which is reinstalling the drivers… they are gonna send the FedEx guy to come get my laptop and “fix” it at their repair center… So holding…

Finally done! Just, great gotta back my drive and then install their crap back on it! Ugh, I hate all that default crap!!

So today has been alright, was up until 4 am because I had to finish the Stewie Griffin movie.. It was ok, not really worth my sleep though. Would have gone to bed earlier, but somehow ended up talking to Dave… Nothing really interesting. Went to class late as usual, blah blah, and she gave us the test! The last test is a take home test! So I have off tomorrow and Friday, should be able to do decently on it :). I got to meet with someone at UD at 2 tomorrow, thinking of heading down to the beach for some sun and I guess that state fair thing. Don’t want to come back till Friday or Saturday before work, but looks like no one is down there now that I can stay with. Rather not pay the insane rates they are charging now because it’s like the end of the season. Everything is at peak rates! Can’t blame them, but I nixed my vacation at Ocean City because of it.

Also, I’ve signed my soul away again. I’ll be officially full time, should of started it at the beginning of summer instead of now, but oh well. I can’t really take a vacation now either because I have to work Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 1 PM to 12 AM. What torture, I’m going to see if I can it shifted somewhat, at least for August. During the school year, that is pretty much what I have to work and fit in classes.

I’ve got 4 classes on my schedule right now, which counts as a full time load. I can add one more class, which wouldn’t increase my tuition any. So of course I should add it, can’t let UD get more money out of me than they already do. However, I’m worried about balancing it all with working full time. I know it can be done, but am I that hard core? Revised for goal for college is finish a semester earlier or finish on normal schedule with a minor of some sort or maybe a second major. I think I like the graduating early one, just get the hell out of there…

I have a feeling, I’ll be going into a teaching stint for a little while. I don’t think it’s exactly my passion, but I enjoy it more than say other things… Which reminds me, should I go do any volunteering stuff in the fall? It’s hard to fit into my schedule, but it can be done. I can go mentor a kid like I did last year. I didn’t exactly like that so much though.

Still looking for a place to move, Mike hinted at the idea of getting a house with him and Frances. Which is kind of cool, I’m not into the whole apartment type thing anyhow. Never really lived in one and just weird having to feed quarters to the machine to do my laundry (which I still don’t know how to do!). The murder of Lindsey last semester is also kind of frightening, but it doesn’t really affect me much I don’t think. I don’t think I make anyone hate me enough that would make them want to kill me.

I’ve been in a rather good mood lately, a whole world of difference from how I was over the weekend. It seems like no big deal, but to me it is a bit troubling to go so easily between the 2 moods. I feel like I just kind of snapped over the weekend…. I had reason to, but I don’t feel it was exactly that that set me off. It was just some combination of it all I think, so no more drinking for me (I know, yea right… but I’ll try to stay away from it).

Being in a good mood, something is still bothering me. I can’t change a situation, but just want to so badly. It’s a bit insane and I feel compelled to call myself crazy because of it. I really have no power over the matter and nothing that I do within normal means will make a difference in the issue. However, it doesn’t stop me from thinking about it a lot. The funny thing is that I’m not sure if I keep thinking about it because I really want it to change or more because I’m fueled by what I can’t have. Just something I have to wait out and see the outcome, but doing nothing will make me regret it later so I don’t know what to do.

Grr like another hour before my slow 4200 RPM drive will copy all my files…

So the heavy rains last night cause us to lose power at work just as we were leaving. Some of the overnighters that were coming in had warned us of the power being out so the lights outside were dead for traffic. Anyhow, the power goes off like just as I’m logging out. Haha, the PCs and the network run off UPS so they were ok. The lights just went off and I think the A/C cut.
So the building goes from being brightly lit to very dim outside of our office. Team Leads or whatever start calling the owners to let them know the power went out, but the generator kicked in. Hehe, we kiddingly joke about psychopath killers coming to get us in the office, very idea conditions for a psychopath killer to strike! Anyhow, nothing much else we techs can do so we head toward to leave and one of the building alarms go off! Seriously, the first thing that struck my mine was like oh shit! The killer is coming for us, even though I knew that was rather unlikely. Anyway, me and a head worker head out of the building and as we exit the building alarm goes off, so that’s what it was. The door normally requires a key pass to enter and since the power was out, there was no back up power for it or something… As we go outside it is completely fucking dark! Like literally couldn’t see anything! I gotta say I was actually scared because it was almost complete darkness and all you hear is the rain and loud back up gasoline generator! Never have I been so thankful for keyless entry into my car! If it wasn’t for that, I’m sure it would have took me quite a long time to get into my car. Drive home was terrible, but as I headed back towards the city, there were more lights. Didn’t stop for gas even though my car is in the red part! Also, part of the reason I didn’t go out to Middletown to hangout. That would have really been suicide…

I like I said knew before what classes I was registered for, but didn’t know what sections. Turns out that I didn’t put alternates expect for 2 of my classes and those were the 2 classes that have no open seats left… The other 3 classes, I selected one sections and if I didn’t get it, I was like screw it! So right now, I just need to add one more class and figure what section I am in for Accounting II. My schedule right now is fairly spread out, though I didn’t manage to pull that no classes on Friday off :(. I’m fairly happy and I’ll be talking with work about going full time. I need the benefits! And I’ll be seeing if I’m going to be moving out to Newark. Need a place closer to work and school… Also, wondering about the tax implications of going full time, I think I’ll try to speak with my parent’s accountant. (the financial accounting I’m doing in class are different from tax accounting) My parents will probably all try to get me to claim them as dependants so they can use my benefits from work and all that craziness. I also want to pay no taxes! Well, on my paycheck anyhow. I did a calculation and the government would be taking out close to 10k in taxes from my check over the course of a year. I want to have automatic withdraw grab the amount I would have paid into one of my savings account and earn interest on that bit of money. I’m sure I would have gotten back most of that money anyhow.

Last thing, order the LCD, the new box is here. It is slugging with only 256 MB of RAM. No way can I run a machine like, especially with onboard video taking a quarter of that. Big no no! I don’t think that widescreen LCD will run on that integrated video, so new video card has gotten to bought soon for my uber system. I don’t know if I want to just steal my gig of RAM from the current box or just buy a new gig of RAM. I mean, RAM is so freaking cheap now a days. I paid like $160 for the 1 GIG last year, but this year it could literally be had for just 25% of that! Or does that mean I should get 4x the amount of RAM? Haha, the most I can do mobo is of course only 2 GIG, a drawback of going prebuilt. Not to mention the ridiculous loads of junk they install on there…

Enough writing, I’m hungry so I’m heading out to eat :).

I just tried to use Linux commands at the MS-DOS prompt .

So the other thing was my uptime, I stole it from my AIM thing. There is of course another way to look at uptime besides looking at a thing like AIM.

At work yesterday, I spent like 20 minutes directing this lady to her saved draft message… WTF?? She kept asking me where her message was and I kept telling her it would be where ever she saved it. She didn’t know where she saved it… Great call… Then I spent another 20 minutes just making a smaller logo for her. She had a bitmap image that was like 1.5 megs that she was going to send people… Haha, made it into a jpeg and cropped all the extra space for her. Of course then she tells me it’s suppose to be quarter size, well it looks like the size of the CD the way she had it. So I guess she just changed the zoom level on paint and thought that changed the size. Try to explain this to her… Tell her to use jpg images instead of bitmaps, she tells me she can’t edit jpegs! Of course she proceeds to tell me she has photoshop! Ugh.. That was definately one of those calls where I wanted to just slam my head on my desk and call it a day. I definately should not be doing any image editing at work for any customers, but this was a heck of a lot easier then me trying to explain to her how to use photoshop to get it the way she wanted.
Of course by helping her so much I have done a terrible thing. She will now always expect us to do this level of service for her, worse yet she may request that I help her!

Anyhow, took my accounting test, it was blah because I couldn’t balance my thing at the end.

Computer is taking 2 weeks to get here, apparently a part is on order. No worries I suppose, installed the dvd burner in my current box. It’s working nicely, it reads the dvds that my laptop burned will not read! Yes, I burned these DVDs on my laptop and they will not read on my laptop, but will read in this. So I’m gonna bitch at Compaq. Also, they aren’t movies or anything, just data files…