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Making Use of Time

Friday, April 14th, 2006 | GP, Stolen | No Comments

So, I have not had my own computer since Tuesday morning. It’s amazing all the little things that I have come to use it for that I did not even realize. One of the biggest seems to be just to avoid Paul. I mean he hasn’t even been THAT much of an ass this week either, but if he is here, the big-ass TV is his, and so is the laptop.

Now, I am not exactly loaded for money as of late, so there is not too much I can do outside of home. So I have started reading again. So I know, I can hear the sinkers from you now…. “well, he should be without his computer more often…”. Well that’s BS. I should not be without a computer again for a long time.

Well in my quest for something to do, low ‘n’ behold it warmed up! So the other day I started running again. Well that’s not true… I mean I intended to run, but it was more like me sauntering vaguely downward. Nevermore, it gets better with time.

So instead of another attempt at running today I figured it was Devil’s Lake day. So I pawned some goods so that I would have enough money for gas and a state park pass for another year, and I left. Of course nobody was there to sell the pass today so I didn’t have to pay anyways, but no matter….

Being that this was my first climb of the year, it seemed kind of like my first run of the year…. So I kicked it into gear to huff it up the mountain. Of course I can’t make take an easy path. NOOOOOOOO WAY…. So instead once I got to the cliffs, I found the most difficult path that I had never done and I went up that way. The way I choose didn’t have almost any footholds on the left side and it was a ways up. Taking the difficult paths is way more fun though because you can feel the near-death experience coursing through every vein in your body.

After I made it up that cliff I kind of back tracked a bit so that I could do another cliff. This one also seemed to have lots of wasps hovering around it. So that helped to pump even more adrenaline in me and I made it up that one quick.

Upon getting to the top, and being completely ass out of breath, I actually felt good having done it. I mean I knew that if a group of friends had gone with me, none of them would of attempted to go up the cliffs that I did and that made me proud. Of course by this time I had all sorts of muscle spasms in every place in my body that didn’t feel like jello. Which made the walk down really tough. Of course it didn’t help that I was wearing shoes that though good for climbing, are terrible for descending, since I kept sliding forward on all the smooth rocks.

After I got home the neighbor’s were out so I took my chair (and a 6 pack of Yokel… a beer that I should spite because it replaced my favorite beer Native, but since it tastes pretty good I am letting it slide for now…), and hung out with them for most of the night.

All in all, I have been ways to use my time. Fortunately for me I sent my computer parts back to newegg in a hurry and the important package has already arrived, AND has already been reshipped to me using the upgraded fedex shipping that I convinced the lady in the newegg call center to give me for being such a good customer…. So I will have a working computer again soon (of course the weekend will muck that up a bit as well).

I suppose I could kill off some more time by finding somebody to spend Easter with, but I don’t know if I will yet. I figure perhaps Paul will have something to do for it and there4 I will have the house to myself… Well only time will tell..

Message to my Computer

Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | Helpful | 2 Comments

Proof That Spelling is Dead

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | Smartass | 5 Comments

This morning I got an email from a friend. With it I have decided that spelling is now as dead as grammer. Figured you would appreciate it as well.

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Fat Lotta Good

Sunday, April 9th, 2006 | Helpful | 1 Comment

Ok so the site boycott is over. However that still may not help you. Y O Y U ask. It’s simple. I will not have a computer for a few days ;(

See I built this new powerhouse of a computer recently. Of course I could not do so until I sold my (not really so) old system. Having done that I bought all new parts all at once, and stuck them all together. Now that seems like a viable theory right.

Well it wasn’t. Shit kept BSOD’ng on me, and it has been very hard to pinpoint the problem. Well I figured it out finally and it’s one of my 2 sticks of paired ram. This stuff was brand new in the package, and the paired stuff is supposedly pre-tested but alas, this was the problem. This means that to get a replacement I will need to send BOTH sticks of ram back. Now it’s not just that I will be without 2 gigs of ram for a couple days, it’s the fact that I don’t have any extra sticks laying around, so my computer will kind of just not work.

Anyways since I need to send this back, blog posts though possible (once my roommate goes to bed on his laptop) are still not likely. I made sure that I caught up on my ask-a-smartass questions before I had no system. I also did a few other minor tweaks to the website so that it won’t feel totally ignored.

Oh, and at the bottom of the AAS page I added a link to add the feed to google. If you click it and then click add to google reader, you will be amazed at how damn smooth my feed really can work. I also once again got rid of the semi-transparent background ;( of course this time it was so that I could fix the links on the atom feed so that they load correctly. Yes, they now work, BUT currently they do not load inside of my frame. I will fix this when the new site design launches (someday). For now you can read it on the crappy design, google, or if you are lazy you can listen to every single post spoken to you by Stephen Hawking!

If you need something to do besides read my posts, I recommend Final Fantasy XII, of course you can currently only play it in Japanese which makes it bitchin’ hard, but none-the-less the game is fantastic, and shit it’s hard to earn money in this game, it’s like real life… you need to work hard or steal it to get it!