So this is Christmas… (hard not to break into song, though a song that says the war is over is full of shit).

Can’t have snow so we got clear precipitation instead. That wouldn’t effect my mood any except that today, and yesterday my phone has been flooded with phone calls. Now usually I am thrilled to see local phone numbers calling me as it means I am getting some PC Repair work. I would even go so far as to work on Christmas if somebody called and wanted their new computer setup etc..

The thing is, they haven’t been calling for me. They have been calling for some Mexican towing service (I think). I have answered 11 of these calls hoping to find one that speaks English and can properly explain to me where they got my phone number from.

The first 4 phone calls I was all business and trying to figure out where the calls came from. In my broken Spanish I have managed to tell them that they have the wrong number and I even got one of them to explain where they got my phone number from, however he explained it in very fast Spanish and I couldn’t make it out as being anything besides a location.

After the first few calls I answered I have started making up random businesses that they are calling. So far I have used: Paul’s Pron Shop, Frank’s Yellow Snow, Poodle Punters, Church of Scientology, Nottherightnumber.com and my last call I proudly answered as “Thank you for calling Change Your Religion by phone. Press 1 to convert to Judaism, press 2 to convert to Mormonism, press 3 to convert to Satanism… I was going to keep going but they hung up after that one. Suppose even if you don’t understand English you understand El Diabloism.

For now I am just enjoying my Christmas in front of my computer. Just me and my 78 Mexican friends.

Oh, found a few new high speed DivX sites so I am adding a bunch of quality new movies to the site. I know… You all wanted the new games page to be done, but I would rather watch movies since I have abandoned working on the movies ever since DivX movie sites all died off or became crazy slow.

So I discovered a wonderful new issue that Firefox has finally fixed. In version 3.05 my artwork button works. It works over and over again instead of showing just one new piece of artwork and then needing to reload the page.

Now previously I had a “fix” where I told you to edit about:config and search for caching and turn off memory caching. If you were doing that before you might want to turn it back on since it does speed up a couple websites to have it on. It was a very annoying bug in Firefox that had caused me to want memory caching off so I am glad they have fixed the bug.

Now I just need to fix everything else that’s broken :)

Good times ~

Being that I am a bad man, I needed to do 30 hours of community service before x-mas eve. However I don’t really want to waste a week worth of time cleaning up a road or something. I looked into all sorts of shady ways to get out of doing the community service. However I settled on creating a logo and letterhead for a company and then making them a MySpace page.

Now, technically they just make no profit and are not a non-profit organization. I’ve been assured nobody really checks into it and the letterhead looks pimp so I am turning it in. If the city has any issue with it I’m sure they will contact me about it in order to tell me I have to do more.

Either way I am done for now. If I have to do more due to me not “understanding” that the company needs to be titled as a non-profit organization then I’m sure they will give me an extension.

In case you feel like seeing the logo/layout I made them you can see it at: http://myspace.com/rpmproductionsnw08

Honestly it’s not really my style. I hate all the crap myspace puts on the page, but the client wanted all of it to stay. So I just hid all of it below the main image so that you have to scroll to see it. It seemed like a fair compromise with style. Client also liked gray better than red for boxes and background. Whatever works ya know.

Speaking of MySpace. I just redesigned my profile too. I managed to get it to hide the ugly menu bar and search and then look good in all the browsers. Before it looked totally different in Internet Explorer due to all the shit that MySpace removes from your code (unholy bitch of a site), but overall I would say the site now looks more like my site and less like theirs (woohoo).

http://www.myspace.com/trimidium

Am I Evil? Yes I Am

I just watched a fantastic movie. However I went into it expecting a mildly amusing movie that would just make good background noise while I worked on a project on my computer. Yet I was actually drawn into the movie and didn’t work on my project at all.

The movie was called Stranger Than Fiction and starred Will Ferrell. I know, the second I said who it starred your face made a weird little look. I mean sure you have seen a Will Ferrell movie that you couldn’t help but laugh at for the sheer stupidity that his characters portray. You remember chuckling a little when he got shot in the face with a tranquilizer gun or rolling your eyes at one of his outlandish stunts. However you have never sat and watched a Will Ferrell movie that you were captivated by.

I was in the same boat. I don’t think I ever went to the theater to see a movie that starred Will Ferrell and I probably didn’t pay to watch the ones I did see. This my friends is probably the very reason that I missed out on the 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction.

To me I will put this in a category with Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. No, the story has nothing in common, but they were both excellent movies made starring actors that were known for being a certain kind of funny.

Perhaps there is real depths to all the people we typecast. Not just the actors, but everybody. So even though it has nothing to do with this movie I would like to dedicate a day to people doing what they are actually good at and what they enjoy instead of what they are programmed to do.

So I am marking my Google Calendar (which syncs with all my other organizers) down for “Do What You Enjoy Day”. I would like to encourage all of you to also write this down in your calendars and then every year in Winter when you are stressed out, cold and miserable you will have a day to just do whatever you enjoy. A day to totally change your focus, if even for that day. No worries, no problems. Only life and the enjoyment of it.

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