Did something today that I have never done before, at least not succesfully. I cut my own hair, and it looks pretty good. You know you are getting old when your own haircuts look fucking good to you.
April 2005
There are no barbarians at the gates.
Pretty good article over here about why we do NOT need to outlaw guns. I agree 100%
THR – View Single Post – There Are No Barbarians At the Gates
Get off while you blog!!
Oh hell, if I got this my wife would never let me on my computer again.
Kill the hippies!
My sentiments exactly.
BGP : Bathroom Graffiti Project
TV Blues
The damn television quit working a couple of days ago. Not too big of a deal to me, except for a few shows, but a very big deal for stephanie. As I also use it as a front end for my music server, I did want it fixed. Picked up a Sharp 27″ with component input. The only problem is that I can’t get the fucking resolution set correctly to work right, so I have it run in through S-Video. Still a very sharp picture, much better than my ten-year old set that went balls-up. Meedio and BeyondTV show up on it great. Listening to the newest Queens of the Stone Age right now, they kick ass. I also got some speakers as part of the deal, unfortunately I don’t have a receiver right now, and don’t want to fuck with the extra modifications I would need to do to get it to work with my sound card. Maybe I can find a decent receiver on ebay later on in the month. I need to pay off a $3k balance to Chris’ school before any purchases. Put the TV on Best Buy so I can wait a month or two before I pay for that, other than mimimum payments.
Feminine Hygiene
Thanks to Spoons I now have a greater appreciation for these products. Or Not.
The Spoons Experience: All typos are intentional just to see if you’re really paying attention.
Awake again
Goddammit I hate bad dreams. Stephanie and I had a small fight, which is very rare, especially after 17 years, but we did. So I woke up from a fucking nightmare as a result. Damn, she is sleeping fine. What a weird fucking dream. Something about a mall. My Aunt was in it, which makes sense because I spoke with her on the phone the other day. But we got in a fight in a large public face, which is like probably one of my biggest fears, and of course everyone in the mall was booing me because I am an asshole. Damn.
Computer Hell
Managed to get one computer going. Had to replace the modem, and do a wipe and reinstall of 98se. Now that I have been running 2000 or XP since the beta versions in 99 I hate Windows 98. The second PC was worse. I have replaced the hard drive and done a reinstall (several days ago), but then the PSU fan went out. Dug out and old AT PSU from my basement, it won’t work. Will have to look and see what I have this afternoon.
I ended up pulling the hard drive out of my HTPC. Luckily it is still under warranty from Maxtor. Should have a new HD in a couple of days. Lost a bunch of TV shows, mainly kids stuff though. The only ones that make a big difference to me are the entire Farscape library, and I have them on a networked drive. Think I will see about backing those up tonight just to be on the safe side. My neighbor brought his computer over last night. Looks like his CD drive is fried, so he tried to take it apart to clean it (haha), and hooked the ide cables up backwards and couldn’t get it to boot. Will pick up a CD today and swap it out for him this evening I guess.
Anna has a performance at the PTO meeting tonight, so I may not get as much done as I though I would.
Computer problems
Goddam hard drives. One of my newest drives is going out on my htpc, and has the entire system fucked up. I am probably going to have to pull one of the drives out of my pc to replace it with. Already behind, trying to work on someone else’s pc. Damn this pisses me off. Lost a shitload of video, and about 4000 mp3s. Luckily I think I have them all backed up, at least the music, if not the video.
More Beer
…or not. Got home from work around 6pm last night. Seems like no big deal until you figure that I left for work at 5:30 yesterday morning. Hung out with Stephanie and the kids, and watched some TV that I missed during the week. Drank too many beers (which means 3 or 4 for me). My fucking head hurts this morning. I went ahead and got up so that I could do a little work around the houes. I promised Chris that I would take him to see Sin City, so I bought tickets last night at Fandango. Shit, movie prices went up again since I have been. $6.50 for Matinee. I also have another computer to fix for someone. Have to do a win 98 reinstall after I back up some pictures and stuff. Then have another to work on. Had to replace the hard drive, and need to go down to the basement and dig up a damn AT power supply, her fan went out.
Unfortunately I only have one day off, then have to work two, then get another, then I go seven before I can take another day off. Not sure how I managed to get roped into it, but all of the middle and upper management are going to be out of town at a retreat Tuesday and Wednesday, so I get to run the damn division. That should be ok Tuesday, but Wednesday is going to be a goatfuck. Have to hit 9 stores in seven hours and make sure that the weekly paperwork is done, and close it out myself in a couple of cases. I also get my big delivery Wednesday, and of course Stephanie has class, so I have to be finished and picking the kids up by 3:40. I must be a dumbass for agreeing to run it those two days. I’m not even the senior manager. Maybe all total if you don’t count the three years that I spent at the corporate office, but that is besides the point.
Guess I will check my email and bank balance and get my ass moving.