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February 29, 2004
FEB 29TH?????
Happy Leap DAY!!!!!
DFW sucks mucho monkey ass
I'm not sure how many of you people who visit here actually know me.
However, if you do know me at all you know I do not like to travel much. I prefer to be at home, where I know how things work and where they are.
Regardless I have traveled in my life, both in this great counrty of ours and abroad. I've been plenty of places and seen plenty of things that some people don't.
If I never travel through the seventh level of hell, here unto referred to as Dallas/Ft. Worth airport, then it will be to soon.
I am a reasonable person when it comes to tolerating stupity, I think you have to be to live in today's MTV/reality television/mary kate & ashley world. I had no problem dealing with the plane being late on departure, or the Budget rental car's system being down (the lady was very nice about it, and gave us soda pop's to drink...soady pop!). I didn't get to upset when the "apartment" (herefore unto referred to as camp SBC) didn't have shampoo....i just used bar soap. Afterall it's not as if I have that much hair right now anyways. So perhaps it was the week of eating indian and mexican food (for which my lower intestine has still not forgiven me for...i'm sending it flower tomorrow if it doesn't return my calls) I was ready to get home. Now here's the slice of heaven, because up till now I was having a pretty good time. Got to sit in skybox, watch a game, drink all the free beer i could....sounds like a little slice of heaven right? Hell, it was even fun to meet all the people out there, and get to hang out with the group over a few cold Shiners. Don't get me wrong, thats was fun. The poopie really hit the fan when I tried to leave. First of all my flight was @ 7:55pm...central standard time. Well the two people I was traveling with (one of whom had the rental car....) wanted to try to get the 4:17pm ...central standard time...flight so they could get home earlier. Alas this meant one thing (since my ride was preset for 9:30ish, and I couldn't change it) that I was gonna get stuck sitting on my ass in an airport for 4 hours twiddling my thumbs. So we get there and they go ahead and get standby seats on a flight with no real issues. I figured why bother when I was either gonna sit here or at Midway...besides, if I have a ticket in my hand I'm not gonna fuck with the travel god's and to to standby just for the hell of it. They don't like that when you do it, and would probably smacked me down for it. So I get up the the ticket agent and offer her my itinerary, which she doesn't want, all she want's is my destination and driver's license. Which I give her, as I am a nice person who is reasonable. She then proceeds to tell me that I'll have to check my bag. Now let me tell you something, I like to travel carry on only. Ever since the FAA revoked the ability to put locks on your own luggage I just don't trust anyone. I mean there were issues before WHEN we had locks on them. So let's regress to the current situation. It's 2:30pm CST....i'm standing at the ticket counter for a flight that doesn't leave till 7:51....PM and miss brilliance usa suddenly tells me I have to check my carry on because the flight is full. Let's review.....I'm pretty much 5 freakin' hours early and she tells me I need to check my bag's because the plane is full? Now maybe if in the first place she had actually accepted my offer to show her what flight I was on (instead of only my destination) we wouldn't have this issue. So here's our conversation:
Ms Dumass: Sir you'll have to check you bag, the flight is full
Me: Really? That's odd I've flown this airline many times and never had an issue with this luggage and carry on or heard of a requirement of checking it.
Ms Dumass: We'll your hearing it now.
Me: (big shit eating grin on my face) Well yes I am, aren't I So I place my suitcase on the scale for checking your bag, and as I do so I say out loud: Me: I find it odd that I have to check my bag's when my flight doesn't leave till 7:51pm.
Ms Dumass: Oh....your on the later flight......then you don't have to check your bag. Notice that an no time did I mention that my girlfriend IS a flight attendant. And that perhaps I would be familiar with the carry on restrictions of said airline. You what we need? Zombie technology...we need to resurect Charles Darwin and give him a shotgun. Then we can just slap him on the ass, give him a big ol' gunny sack of shells and send him out on this way. Anyone that doesn't get out of the way of him dies. End of story. Ya know, throw a little chlorine in the old gene pool. Anyways, after that happy crap, I stand in line with my co-workers for a good 10 minutes to get through security. Then just as we are nearing the end they decided to open a new checkpoint.........now logic would dictate that you would take two at a time from the exhisting line, but noooooooo...this is texas, let's just start a new line so that the people who come in last get to go before us. Cause that makes sense y'all. So i get up to the security checkpoint, take off my shoes, my belt (i'm not wearing a watch or ring because i don't for this reason alone), and all i have on me is paper money in my pocket because I put my walllet in my backback for simplicty. And of course they have to pull me aside to check my luggage, look for bombs, or shove a few finger's up my ass. Who knows for sure..... So Barney (not his real name, but sounds good enough) pulls me aside. Now let's talk about Barney for a minute. Barney is near death.....so near death he look's like he woke up next to death, gave him a kiss, picked up the $20 dollars on the night stand and shuffled his wrinkly, old, decrepid, flakey, liver spotted behind to work just so he could seek the revenge of his bitter misspent youth on unsuspecting travellers. So Barney is elbow keep in my undewear (shurly depositing more residue than he is removing) and some how becomes convinced that my evil, master plan was to stab the entire flight crew to death with my nose hair scissor's. Damn, him I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for him and those meddling kids. Now the best part is now what happened next. Because all they did was tell me I could keep them if I "checked" my bags (yeah right, fuck you buddy and your impressive resume of menial low paying jobs and lack of college, i'm sure your baby's momma is proud of you) it's that not 10 minutes later as I walked by with a fresh, steaming, practially boiling Starbucks Grande vanilla latte I had to resist the urge to take the top off and fling it in Barney's mummified husk like face screaming "aren't you glad you threw away my nose hair trimmer's...THANK GOD YOU GOT THOSE DANGEROUS THINGS OUT OF MY HANDS!!!!!! LORD KNOWS WHAT I MIGHT OF DONE WITH THOSE AFTER SEEING SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 23 TIMES IN A ROW!!!!" So for the next 5 hours I sat in gate 25B of DFW reading and playing gamebody on and off. Drinking my latte and trying to stay awake as best as possible. Part 2 later....
I am a reasonable person when it comes to tolerating stupity, I think you have to be to live in today's MTV/reality television/mary kate & ashley world. I had no problem dealing with the plane being late on departure, or the Budget rental car's system being down (the lady was very nice about it, and gave us soda pop's to drink...soady pop!). I didn't get to upset when the "apartment" (herefore unto referred to as camp SBC) didn't have shampoo....i just used bar soap. Afterall it's not as if I have that much hair right now anyways. So perhaps it was the week of eating indian and mexican food (for which my lower intestine has still not forgiven me for...i'm sending it flower tomorrow if it doesn't return my calls) I was ready to get home. Now here's the slice of heaven, because up till now I was having a pretty good time. Got to sit in skybox, watch a game, drink all the free beer i could....sounds like a little slice of heaven right? Hell, it was even fun to meet all the people out there, and get to hang out with the group over a few cold Shiners. Don't get me wrong, thats was fun. The poopie really hit the fan when I tried to leave. First of all my flight was @ 7:55pm...central standard time. Well the two people I was traveling with (one of whom had the rental car....) wanted to try to get the 4:17pm ...central standard time...flight so they could get home earlier. Alas this meant one thing (since my ride was preset for 9:30ish, and I couldn't change it) that I was gonna get stuck sitting on my ass in an airport for 4 hours twiddling my thumbs. So we get there and they go ahead and get standby seats on a flight with no real issues. I figured why bother when I was either gonna sit here or at Midway...besides, if I have a ticket in my hand I'm not gonna fuck with the travel god's and to to standby just for the hell of it. They don't like that when you do it, and would probably smacked me down for it. So I get up the the ticket agent and offer her my itinerary, which she doesn't want, all she want's is my destination and driver's license. Which I give her, as I am a nice person who is reasonable. She then proceeds to tell me that I'll have to check my bag. Now let me tell you something, I like to travel carry on only. Ever since the FAA revoked the ability to put locks on your own luggage I just don't trust anyone. I mean there were issues before WHEN we had locks on them. So let's regress to the current situation. It's 2:30pm CST....i'm standing at the ticket counter for a flight that doesn't leave till 7:51....PM and miss brilliance usa suddenly tells me I have to check my carry on because the flight is full. Let's review.....I'm pretty much 5 freakin' hours early and she tells me I need to check my bag's because the plane is full? Now maybe if in the first place she had actually accepted my offer to show her what flight I was on (instead of only my destination) we wouldn't have this issue. So here's our conversation:
Ms Dumass: Sir you'll have to check you bag, the flight is full
Me: Really? That's odd I've flown this airline many times and never had an issue with this luggage and carry on or heard of a requirement of checking it.
Ms Dumass: We'll your hearing it now.
Me: (big shit eating grin on my face) Well yes I am, aren't I So I place my suitcase on the scale for checking your bag, and as I do so I say out loud: Me: I find it odd that I have to check my bag's when my flight doesn't leave till 7:51pm.
Ms Dumass: Oh....your on the later flight......then you don't have to check your bag. Notice that an no time did I mention that my girlfriend IS a flight attendant. And that perhaps I would be familiar with the carry on restrictions of said airline. You what we need? Zombie technology...we need to resurect Charles Darwin and give him a shotgun. Then we can just slap him on the ass, give him a big ol' gunny sack of shells and send him out on this way. Anyone that doesn't get out of the way of him dies. End of story. Ya know, throw a little chlorine in the old gene pool. Anyways, after that happy crap, I stand in line with my co-workers for a good 10 minutes to get through security. Then just as we are nearing the end they decided to open a new checkpoint.........now logic would dictate that you would take two at a time from the exhisting line, but noooooooo...this is texas, let's just start a new line so that the people who come in last get to go before us. Cause that makes sense y'all. So i get up to the security checkpoint, take off my shoes, my belt (i'm not wearing a watch or ring because i don't for this reason alone), and all i have on me is paper money in my pocket because I put my walllet in my backback for simplicty. And of course they have to pull me aside to check my luggage, look for bombs, or shove a few finger's up my ass. Who knows for sure..... So Barney (not his real name, but sounds good enough) pulls me aside. Now let's talk about Barney for a minute. Barney is near death.....so near death he look's like he woke up next to death, gave him a kiss, picked up the $20 dollars on the night stand and shuffled his wrinkly, old, decrepid, flakey, liver spotted behind to work just so he could seek the revenge of his bitter misspent youth on unsuspecting travellers. So Barney is elbow keep in my undewear (shurly depositing more residue than he is removing) and some how becomes convinced that my evil, master plan was to stab the entire flight crew to death with my nose hair scissor's. Damn, him I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for him and those meddling kids. Now the best part is now what happened next. Because all they did was tell me I could keep them if I "checked" my bags (yeah right, fuck you buddy and your impressive resume of menial low paying jobs and lack of college, i'm sure your baby's momma is proud of you) it's that not 10 minutes later as I walked by with a fresh, steaming, practially boiling Starbucks Grande vanilla latte I had to resist the urge to take the top off and fling it in Barney's mummified husk like face screaming "aren't you glad you threw away my nose hair trimmer's...THANK GOD YOU GOT THOSE DANGEROUS THINGS OUT OF MY HANDS!!!!!! LORD KNOWS WHAT I MIGHT OF DONE WITH THOSE AFTER SEEING SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 23 TIMES IN A ROW!!!!" So for the next 5 hours I sat in gate 25B of DFW reading and playing gamebody on and off. Drinking my latte and trying to stay awake as best as possible. Part 2 later....
February 27, 2004
ompa ompa doopity do....
So I was at the American Airlines Center last night to see the Maverick's vs. Spur's. Seat's were provided by a "vendor" as a bonus for the training class.
Now I've never been to a basket ball game before, nor have I ever been in a skybox (1351) before. However, I have to say.....if you ever have a chance to do it....do it! It was a pretty cool night, free food and drink, and the view is amazing.
Well back to training, last day before I get to fly home tonight. Jen here I come!
February 26, 2004
Pergo time
That my friends is 3 pallets worth of pergo.
yet another post
Don't like the new hummer's? You are not alone:
- F you and your H2
fuel economy
Worst part is I can't blame him really.
Man stabs air traffic controller blamed for crash
Here's a great site on fuel economy from Jen. The coolest part, imho, is that you can compare the fuel efficiency of two cars against each other. Very cool.
Good morning dallas
There is only one saving grace to the entire cluster fuck that is know as the Dallas highway system, the HOV lane.
The HOV lane is an express lane, or carpool lane, open to buses, 2+ carpools, and motorcycles, and it is the only reason you can get anywhere around here in the early morning. Assuming of course you have 2+ people in your car. Speaking of 2+ people, remember that movie called "Forget Paris" with Billy Crystal? Remember how the old guy would sit in the car reading off the signs of the business's as they drove past? I always believed that to be a falsehood, an urban myth. However, I can now confirm that it does indeed happen. People do sit in their car, as they drive, saying out loud the name of every large sign they drive by. I can only tell you what a little slice of heaven that is. Anyways, I'm going to some basketball game tonight. The spurs vs. whoever. Should be interesting as I've never been to a basketball game before, much less in a skybox (vendor's treating.....hope that means free beer). Maybe I'll see a touchdown or catch a foul ball while i'm there ;-)
The HOV lane is an express lane, or carpool lane, open to buses, 2+ carpools, and motorcycles, and it is the only reason you can get anywhere around here in the early morning. Assuming of course you have 2+ people in your car. Speaking of 2+ people, remember that movie called "Forget Paris" with Billy Crystal? Remember how the old guy would sit in the car reading off the signs of the business's as they drove past? I always believed that to be a falsehood, an urban myth. However, I can now confirm that it does indeed happen. People do sit in their car, as they drive, saying out loud the name of every large sign they drive by. I can only tell you what a little slice of heaven that is. Anyways, I'm going to some basketball game tonight. The spurs vs. whoever. Should be interesting as I've never been to a basketball game before, much less in a skybox (vendor's treating.....hope that means free beer). Maybe I'll see a touchdown or catch a foul ball while i'm there ;-)
February 25, 2004
Aren't I in a desert?
It's raining in Texas....been raining since I got here Monday.
Jacket = No
Long sleeve shirt = 2
Umbrella = Are you freakin' kidding? Who travels with an umbrella I can't wait to get home before this place drives me up a wall. I never was a big fan of travelling, but now that I'm with Jen I want to leave home even less. Maybe I should have brought a cat with me. Just one....nibbler would travel the best, but chloe's my favorite. Maybe I should get a travel kitty, ya know, like one of those bonsai kitties.
I guess it could be worse. I could have an ironic tag by my name on fark.
Long sleeve shirt = 2
Umbrella = Are you freakin' kidding? Who travels with an umbrella I can't wait to get home before this place drives me up a wall. I never was a big fan of travelling, but now that I'm with Jen I want to leave home even less. Maybe I should have brought a cat with me. Just one....nibbler would travel the best, but chloe's my favorite. Maybe I should get a travel kitty, ya know, like one of those bonsai kitties.
I guess it could be worse. I could have an ironic tag by my name on fark.
February 24, 2004
Things I don't like:
- Standards that aren't standardized
- Highway's in Texas (Dallas is a nightmare to drive)
- Not having shampoo or q-tips
- Doing maintenance windows while on-call.
- People who don't respond to email for 3 days.
- Training classes that make you do needless labs
- Moving into a house saturday, and leaving sunday
- Highway's in Texas (Dallas is a nightmare to drive)
- Not having shampoo or q-tips
- Doing maintenance windows while on-call.
- People who don't respond to email for 3 days.
- Training classes that make you do needless labs
- Moving into a house saturday, and leaving sunday
February 21, 2004
Moving day
Today is moving day, and what a fun day indeed. From stupid office people who won't lock off the freight elevator, to matress delivery people who don't return the elevator to the right floor when you let them use it for "cinco" minutes.
Either way, it couldn't have gone well without the help of these guys:
Oh, and we got back from dinner there was a little gift on our door. Earlier when I brought over the first load I forgot my keys, and garage remote. So we couldn't get in to the house, and had to go back for the keys. So my sister went out and bought us a sears keyless entry remote. :) Talk about hilarious, what a nice thing to do.
Well I gotta go try to find all the cat's now, and see if the furnace humidifier I installed works.
Oh, and we got back from dinner there was a little gift on our door. Earlier when I brought over the first load I forgot my keys, and garage remote. So we couldn't get in to the house, and had to go back for the keys. So my sister went out and bought us a sears keyless entry remote. :) Talk about hilarious, what a nice thing to do.Well I gotta go try to find all the cat's now, and see if the furnace humidifier I installed works.
February 19, 2004
Valentines day
I completely forgot to share this pic, it's been up in the photo album, but I didn't post it here.
It's our Valentine's day gifts to each other:
A Shit Bitch Bear and some Big Black Dick Liquor. Oh yeah, and the duct's and fireplace got cleaned today. Plus me and jen got about 1/2 the masterbedroom's plywood subfloor secured.
A Shit Bitch Bear and some Big Black Dick Liquor. Oh yeah, and the duct's and fireplace got cleaned today. Plus me and jen got about 1/2 the masterbedroom's plywood subfloor secured.
dead leaves and the dirty ground
Here is a really interesting movie that was sent to me (curtosy of Patrick)
- Reason to wear your seatbelt
Apparently it's a video from a product called DriveCam which is a fleet monitoring system that records the last 15 minutes before an accident.
February 18, 2004
I need an epiphany toilet
It's not that I have writer's block, but I'm just not sure what to put here.
There's a decent amount of traffic that comes here, but I'm not sure if it's for the links or to because my post's are interesting.
I don't speak to my brother anymore. The reason I bring this up is because the closing for my mother's house will occur on Feb. 27th (in theory). But I won't be there because I'll be in Texas for the week on business. My sister also won't be there because she doesn't want to be alone with him without me (i think). This is a major decision in my opinion, because unlike me, she grew up with him.
The reason why is pretty simple, and i'm sure most of you can see it coming, but I don't think i've actually told anyone on here. My brother didn't do jack shit to help my mom. In total he only visited her 3 times before her death, and not even with my sister-in-law. I assume she couldn't be bothered to come.
While me and terri were switching days (every other) to take care of her, he just went about his life offering us no support. With his help we would have been able to do every 3 days instead of every other. Even if his job wouldn't allow it, he could have done weekends. Anything to help us out, and at least spend some time with mom before she died. Instead it was just left on us to do it everyday, everyweek, everymonth. These memories are horrible ones, I don't blame anyone for not wanting them, but I will serve judgement on people who abandon their family.
So he get's his third of the house, but in return loses a brother, and has to live the rest of his life knowing he can never fix what he did or change it. I don't think it was worth it. Oh and Terri, if you read this, I don't want your TV. Your gonna have to keep it.
So he get's his third of the house, but in return loses a brother, and has to live the rest of his life knowing he can never fix what he did or change it. I don't think it was worth it. Oh and Terri, if you read this, I don't want your TV. Your gonna have to keep it.
February 16, 2004
IIEEE
Where to start? Lot's going on right now. Working on the new house, and trying to catch up on packing.
Been a very busy weekend for both of us. We finished rolling up the nasty old carpeting and getting it ready for the pickup. The final tally was 15 roll's of carpeting, each 4 feet long by 2 feet. They all got picked up this morning by the garbage men, we arranged a bulk pickup, for only 21 bucks. Not to bad if you ask me.
That's about all that's gone right though. It turns out the pergo didn't arrive like Home Depot told us, so we basically went there with a truck for no reason at all. Great waste of a day if you ask me. Sure there was a morning laminate flooring class we both attended, and that was helpful, but still kinda sucked the energy out of the day.
Basically, after that class, we've realized that the subfloor that carpet was on isn't the same as what the ceramic tile is on. The ceramic tile has an extra layer of subfloor (which is just plywood) downstairs. So basically we have to add another layer of plywood in all the rooms downstairs. Not the end of the world, but definatly not my idea of fun.
On a different note, being out of pocket has it's bad points. Apparently my website was down most of sunday and I didn't notice until rick told me about it when we were out at TGIF's drinking cheap beer/water and waiting for jenna to come back to the table.
Speaking of weird things, me and jen both traded valentine's day gifts, but i'll save that for another post.
Strange things have been going on lately, I've noticed a lot of searches for "tonycar" on my site, plus the traffic for that file is crazy high:
Last Accessed Hits Bytes File
10:59:51 16 Feb 2004 2,260 7,754,943,906 /fun/tonycar.wmv
11:02:33 16 Feb 2004 287 751,075,323 /fun/toyotacrash.mpeg
08:24:16 14 Feb 2004 45 501,717,924 /fun/springer.mpeg Judging on an email I got, I'm assuming somebody linked to this and sent out an email with it. Pretty crazy stuff, good thing i don't have any bandwidth issues. On a bright side, Jen taught me how to make black & tan's last week. Pretty cool. Here are some quick link's I've been saving for a rainy (snowy) day: - Houston rarely fires lazy workers. In other news sky is still blue.
- Get kicked in balls, sue for $15,000, sit back and profit.
- Metallica continues it's downward spiral into Spinal Tap.
- Meet Levi's new distressed jean product line. Will Ferrell soon to release his "Derelicte" line from Zoolander.
- Central Vac's suck, but in a good way.....not like a $10 hooker. Had to toss this in because the new house had one :)
- American Indian's (NACC) are upset about OutKast's grammy performance, saying it was "It was the most disgusting set of racial stereotypes aimed at American Indians that I have ever seen on TV". In other news, piece of coal up his ass should be ready just about any day now. Ok, gotta go install GNOME right now on my sparq. Later,
D
11:02:33 16 Feb 2004 287 751,075,323 /fun/toyotacrash.mpeg
08:24:16 14 Feb 2004 45 501,717,924 /fun/springer.mpeg Judging on an email I got, I'm assuming somebody linked to this and sent out an email with it. Pretty crazy stuff, good thing i don't have any bandwidth issues. On a bright side, Jen taught me how to make black & tan's last week. Pretty cool. Here are some quick link's I've been saving for a rainy (snowy) day: - Houston rarely fires lazy workers. In other news sky is still blue.
- Get kicked in balls, sue for $15,000, sit back and profit.
- Metallica continues it's downward spiral into Spinal Tap.
- Meet Levi's new distressed jean product line. Will Ferrell soon to release his "Derelicte" line from Zoolander.
- Central Vac's suck, but in a good way.....not like a $10 hooker. Had to toss this in because the new house had one :)
- American Indian's (NACC) are upset about OutKast's grammy performance, saying it was "It was the most disgusting set of racial stereotypes aimed at American Indians that I have ever seen on TV". In other news, piece of coal up his ass should be ready just about any day now. Ok, gotta go install GNOME right now on my sparq. Later,
D
February 13, 2004
mia
out of pocket for a while, no email or phone. So if i don't answer your emails or post's dont' take it personally. the dsl order is taking longer than thought.
February 12, 2004
this ain't yo home, so don't use the speaker phone!
Have you heard about the latest "virus" going around?
I pretty much stopped using AIM a while ago, but it only affects them. Basically some idiot downloads a stupid joke program, and it uses them to redistribute itself to everyone on their buddy list. It's social engineering at it's best/worst. Here's a good "overview" article of it on CNN.
And of course for the more technical of us, there's an indepth discussion going on over at BBR/DSLR. I haven't really been watching much TV lately, especially MTV (which no longer plays music videos really.....ironic to say the least) but I did catch the latest Real World debacle while channel flipping. Basically one of the girls hit a guy, and he called the cops on her. Turns out he's a marine..... yup, he's the person we depend upon to protect our freedom and way of life. And also apparently a huge pussy. Ok, gotta get to bed, but here's a great site that has all the Terry Tate Reebok commercials on it. They are simply hilarious. Probably some of the funniest one's I've seen in a long time.
And of course for the more technical of us, there's an indepth discussion going on over at BBR/DSLR. I haven't really been watching much TV lately, especially MTV (which no longer plays music videos really.....ironic to say the least) but I did catch the latest Real World debacle while channel flipping. Basically one of the girls hit a guy, and he called the cops on her. Turns out he's a marine..... yup, he's the person we depend upon to protect our freedom and way of life. And also apparently a huge pussy. Ok, gotta get to bed, but here's a great site that has all the Terry Tate Reebok commercials on it. They are simply hilarious. Probably some of the funniest one's I've seen in a long time.
February 10, 2004
My eye's! The goggles do NOTHING!
I forgot to mention something yesterday.
It was very embarassing.
VERY embarrassing.
I used to use an old win98 for emulating old video game systems (such as NESticle) and I used an old Compaq analog 2 button gamepad because it was just like the original nes controller. So I figured I could use it for FF7 at least to move my guy around, until I found my 4 button one (which is hiding one me right now).
So I plugged it in to the port in my sound card, just like I did before, and for some reason I can't get it work. I reload, check the bios to make sure I didn't disable it, check the device manager in winXP, still no joy.
So Jen is sitting next to me on the couch (my comp is currently running output to my big screen tv, so i can enjoy ff7 to it's fullest ;P) and says "isn't there a game controller thing you have to setup in the control panel?" Sure as shit, that was the problem. I spent the next 10 minutes bitching about stupid XP, but really I just felt like an idiot. :( Oh well.....in other news we finished ripping up all the carpeting last night in the whole house. I tell you what, I'll be damn glad to get rid of it. After seeing what's under it I don't think I'll ever be a supporter of carpeting again. Plus, the bastards who installed it used like a million staples on the padding. It's a freakin' nightmare to get them all up, I both our hands are cramping up like crazy (that reminds me, I need knee pads). Let's see, that leaves Pergo (coming next week), painting, installing a humidifier to the furnace, getting the duct's cleaned and furnace, and moving. All before the 23rd when I have to fly out of town for a business trip. No problem at all. Actually that reminds me of a story of some idiot I know who installed a whole house water filter, and didn't even do it close to right. So he had rags in the closet under it to catch the dripping water. Now that's the wrong way to do something. Well back to work, my contacts are buggin' me and I still have to troubleshoot a GigE problem in SFLDMI.
So Jen is sitting next to me on the couch (my comp is currently running output to my big screen tv, so i can enjoy ff7 to it's fullest ;P) and says "isn't there a game controller thing you have to setup in the control panel?" Sure as shit, that was the problem. I spent the next 10 minutes bitching about stupid XP, but really I just felt like an idiot. :( Oh well.....in other news we finished ripping up all the carpeting last night in the whole house. I tell you what, I'll be damn glad to get rid of it. After seeing what's under it I don't think I'll ever be a supporter of carpeting again. Plus, the bastards who installed it used like a million staples on the padding. It's a freakin' nightmare to get them all up, I both our hands are cramping up like crazy (that reminds me, I need knee pads). Let's see, that leaves Pergo (coming next week), painting, installing a humidifier to the furnace, getting the duct's cleaned and furnace, and moving. All before the 23rd when I have to fly out of town for a business trip. No problem at all. Actually that reminds me of a story of some idiot I know who installed a whole house water filter, and didn't even do it close to right. So he had rags in the closet under it to catch the dripping water. Now that's the wrong way to do something. Well back to work, my contacts are buggin' me and I still have to troubleshoot a GigE problem in SFLDMI.
February 09, 2004
Welcome to the jungle
The joy of homeowner ship just keeps getting better and better :)
Due to a nice little f&@^ up by SBC's billing department my phone got cut off on Friday, and is supposed to be turned up sometime today. Still waiting on it though, can't even dial up to get online without a phone line. Still tearing up carpeting, so far we've finished the living room, dining room, and family room. This also includes tearing up the "tack strip" and jen had a great idea. Why not burn it all in the fireplace? It really worked out great, and now all we have to do is sweep up the nails from the fireplace rather than trying to throw out 3 room's of tack stripping (which has nails all over it). Once we have all the carpetting up, we've been getting rid of all the squeaks in the floor (there were a lot of them). So basically we're screwing the living hell out of the floor everywhere there is a nail to get rid of the squeak. It's working pretty well but takes a while, uses a lot of screws, and is murder on my back :) Got an email today from somebody recommending Dragon Warrior 7 for the PS1. I'm still working on FF7 (haven't had a lot of time to play) for the PC, and am still looking for my gamepad because the keyboard layout is murder on my hands.
However, when I am done and if I have time I will try to play it for sure. I remember playing Draqon Warrior 1 on my NES (still have the cartridge actually in my closet), and I've been drooling over the previews for Dragon Warrior 8 . The graphic style in DW VIII should look familiar because the person doing them also did Dragon Ball Z (Akira Toriyama I think). When I'll find time.......who knows :) The only links I have today are this:
- 23 ways to speed up Windows XP
- Stewie Soundboard (freakin' hilarious)
- New York City formally opposes the Patriot Act, still wants money for Internet purchases though.
Due to a nice little f&@^ up by SBC's billing department my phone got cut off on Friday, and is supposed to be turned up sometime today. Still waiting on it though, can't even dial up to get online without a phone line. Still tearing up carpeting, so far we've finished the living room, dining room, and family room. This also includes tearing up the "tack strip" and jen had a great idea. Why not burn it all in the fireplace? It really worked out great, and now all we have to do is sweep up the nails from the fireplace rather than trying to throw out 3 room's of tack stripping (which has nails all over it). Once we have all the carpetting up, we've been getting rid of all the squeaks in the floor (there were a lot of them). So basically we're screwing the living hell out of the floor everywhere there is a nail to get rid of the squeak. It's working pretty well but takes a while, uses a lot of screws, and is murder on my back :) Got an email today from somebody recommending Dragon Warrior 7 for the PS1. I'm still working on FF7 (haven't had a lot of time to play) for the PC, and am still looking for my gamepad because the keyboard layout is murder on my hands.
However, when I am done and if I have time I will try to play it for sure. I remember playing Draqon Warrior 1 on my NES (still have the cartridge actually in my closet), and I've been drooling over the previews for Dragon Warrior 8 . The graphic style in DW VIII should look familiar because the person doing them also did Dragon Ball Z (Akira Toriyama I think). When I'll find time.......who knows :) The only links I have today are this:
- 23 ways to speed up Windows XP
- Stewie Soundboard (freakin' hilarious)
- New York City formally opposes the Patriot Act, still wants money for Internet purchases though.
February 06, 2004
if your happy and you know it clap your hands!
I feel as if I have lost a part of myself.
I have no phone service.
I have no DSL.
I won't have phone service until Monday the 9th, and DSL until the 16th (at the latest).
Internet withdrawl cannot be to far behind.
February 05, 2004
I have dsl!
Did a lot yesterday. Called to update a lot of records, moved the telephone and the best part? The new house qualifies for DSL! So no only do I keep the discount, but I also keep the current email address's and equipment!
The furnace got fixed last night around 6pm. Turn's out the problem was pretty much what the NiCor guy thought it was. It was the gas valve in the furnace itself. I think that's the exact model, but not to sure. Either way you get the idea. Still had to pay a hundred bucks to get the damn thing fixed, but guess I can't complain to much. At least it's one less thing to fix later, and besides I'm sure I've saved that much doing my own labor over the years.
Speaking of labor, I was working at the house yesterday on some assorted stuff and started thinking about all the work I've done over the years. Toilet's replaced, wall and floor's tiles, appliences installed, sink's replaced, plumbing done, drywall installed, door's installed, oulet's put in, etc etc.
No wonder I'm so tired of doing all this. Still doesn't even feel like i'm doing it for myself yet. Guess I just can't get it thru my head that we own this house yet until we live in it. Well back to work, have to review a config for an erx1400 in Texas. Ah the glamorous life of an engineer. Oh yeah, I introduce you to the perfect sink!
No wonder I'm so tired of doing all this. Still doesn't even feel like i'm doing it for myself yet. Guess I just can't get it thru my head that we own this house yet until we live in it. Well back to work, have to review a config for an erx1400 in Texas. Ah the glamorous life of an engineer. Oh yeah, I introduce you to the perfect sink!
Had to clean some
Had to clean some pictures off the digital camera, so I whipped up an animated gif and uploaded it. While I was working on it, I was swarmed by the local indigenous species and took a picture.
February 04, 2004
back then i couldn't do the things that i can do now
Chevrolet Aveo = $9,995.00
1600sq feet of Pergo Antique Amber Oak flooring = $7,310.00 Scary eh? The damn pergo almost cost as much as a car would. Basically we're going to rip up all carpeting in the house, re-secure the plywood subfloor, and put pergo down everywhere. No more carpeting, only tile and pergo. Should be pretty nice, easy to care for, and should improve the value of the house. So we ordered all that last night at Home Depot on a Home Depot Credit Card (6 months, no payments), then we'll just pay it off in a few months. Oh yeah, and I bought a new drill :) :) When we got home we noticed the house was really cold, even though we cranked the heat when we got home. So we checked it and apparently the pilot was out, but even nicor couldn't get the thermocouple to light, so it looks like a master valve controller issue :( Brand new house
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Non working furnace= bad things I'm going to have to deal with that somehow today while managing to get some work done. To much to do, to little time. Game I want to play:
FF7 (just got the game and strategy game online used)
Movie I want to rent:
Donnie Darko (keep hearing about this) And now for your pleasure P. Diddy's official superbowl links (yeah....uh huh,....uh..uh,uh....*mumble*)
- Smack the penquin (annoyingly addictive thanks to Kat) My high score is 523.1.
- ID to release MyDoom3 game as virus. ;)
- AOL want's its investment into the Superbowl halftime show back. All $10 million of it :-0 So would that make Janet Jackson's chest worth $20,000,000.00 ???
- No matter how bad your car is, this guy's is crappier. Ok, gotta get moving here. Later,
D
1600sq feet of Pergo Antique Amber Oak flooring = $7,310.00 Scary eh? The damn pergo almost cost as much as a car would. Basically we're going to rip up all carpeting in the house, re-secure the plywood subfloor, and put pergo down everywhere. No more carpeting, only tile and pergo. Should be pretty nice, easy to care for, and should improve the value of the house. So we ordered all that last night at Home Depot on a Home Depot Credit Card (6 months, no payments), then we'll just pay it off in a few months. Oh yeah, and I bought a new drill :) :) When we got home we noticed the house was really cold, even though we cranked the heat when we got home. So we checked it and apparently the pilot was out, but even nicor couldn't get the thermocouple to light, so it looks like a master valve controller issue :( Brand new house
+
Non working furnace= bad things I'm going to have to deal with that somehow today while managing to get some work done. To much to do, to little time. Game I want to play:
FF7 (just got the game and strategy game online used)
Movie I want to rent:
Donnie Darko (keep hearing about this) And now for your pleasure P. Diddy's official superbowl links (yeah....uh huh,....uh..uh,uh....*mumble*)
- Smack the penquin (annoyingly addictive thanks to Kat) My high score is 523.1.
- ID to release MyDoom3 game as virus. ;)
- AOL want's its investment into the Superbowl halftime show back. All $10 million of it :-0 So would that make Janet Jackson's chest worth $20,000,000.00 ???
- No matter how bad your car is, this guy's is crappier. Ok, gotta get moving here. Later,
D
February 03, 2004
bring your love down (didn't I)
As I was filtering thru the list of utilities and such I had to call today I tripped across morgan webb's site and she posted a question that I myself had asked but forgotten about.
What the fuck was P. Diddy/Sean Combs/Puff Daddy doing in the super bowl half time show??????
Makes me think of:
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander' All in all it felt like a freakin' 80's review, nothing like having somebody rape your childhood, replay it with an added backbeat from a 30 dollar casio, and call it a remix. I tell you, the best part of the super bowl is not the game it's the commercial's.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander' All in all it felt like a freakin' 80's review, nothing like having somebody rape your childhood, replay it with an added backbeat from a 30 dollar casio, and call it a remix. I tell you, the best part of the super bowl is not the game it's the commercial's.
February 02, 2004
more exciting than janet jackson's tit....almost
Well it's official as of today. We signed all the loan papers and started working on the house today.
Very tired....putting a deadbolt in a steel door is a pain in the ass! I really need a corded drill or a new cordless one.
Anyways, to tired to post. Talk more later.....