Its Late

I have a headache again; this is really getting old.

So the cool news I got this week was: I got my Peachtree number! YEAH! So much for slacking off, seeing as I am in time group 1A I better start training again...

On another note, I seem to be on a music kick, looking for and getting ALL kinds of music: rap, rock, r&b, electronica, remixes. I also just sucked it up and bought the cable I needed for the mini. Yes it makes me sad, but inevitably it will make my life much easier.

Today I missed church to "help move bricks" and I say that because that is what I knew going into this soon to be almost 5 hour task. When I showed up I half expected the person we were going to be helping to be a woman or a frail old man, but soon found that nope were going to help some dad move bricks out from underneath his house. I would hazard to use the word crawl space, but really it was really more of a "prone space" seeing as you only had enough room, in the part of the house where a lot of the bricks were, to be flat on your stomach or rotated onto one of your hips. The work was kind of hard, but considering the heat outside being inside a dark cave-like crawl space in the shade wasn't too bad. And the money, yes the money- I realized I'm not too desperate to miss church for the hourly rate I made- at least if its manual labor or in a crawl space. I came home so dusty and gross I looked homeless, it was not cool. I am kind of surprised red clay didn't form in the drain pipes. I took a picture of the pile of bricks Zack and I made outside the house, but cant seem to get it off my phone. I will eventually and edit the post to include it. It was huge. And after this ordeal I went to work! Gah. Long day.




Well I need to go to bed, I have work and have to get a TB test for volunteering at the hospital tuesday. Sleep is good for our bodies, but sometimes we just don't slow down to get the amount we need.

Too Awesome Not to Blog About.

So I just got the 2hr Ultra HD Flip Video camera. My goodness it is spectacular. Apart from the super lengthy charge time of 7hrs which i had to do right out of the box, it is gorgeous. Sleek Chrome and black design, so sweet. I am not sure what I'm going to film with it first, but then again Evan is spending the week with me. I'm sure we'll find something to do with it. And then its off to be edited in Vegas and then run through Sound Booth and put on youTube.(there is enough crap on youTube, if you are going to take the time to make a video - quality: its a must, please) So pretty. Two blog posts in one day? What crazyness is this? Well its not a facebook status or twitter so as long as I dont update every 15 mintues I guess I'm okay. :)

Being a Breakfast Blogger?

Yeah definitely fell asleep at a reasonable hour last night, I guess that means I'm at least over the hill with whatever it is I'm fighting off; good stuff. I think today I'm going to read more, which is awesome I'm glad that I am reading books in my down time again. And the reading helps me escape from the electronics related tasks I could and should do soon, like organize all my music and fix the Ps2 hard drive. But I'm not looking forward to gathering all that music into one place, removing the redundancies and linking album art for every single song I have. That is a 4+ hour chore that can wait for a dark rainy boring day. But I think I will take care of the Ps2 fairly soon, because I really want to play some ridiculous racing game that makes me feel like a king of the track, because really who doesn't like that feeling? But all of that is a side car to the inevitable task that I'm required to do today, and that's go to work. Which wouldn't be so bad but I am working the kind of hours I haven't seen since last summer. So its early 30 to late 30. Not really as much fun as I would want, but at least it pays nice and I didn't have to look for a job- like every other unprepared young adult ever.

I suppose it's time for another bowl of cheerios; not the lame kind- these are honey nut ;-) good stuff. And then I get to ride in with mom and then drive to work, YAY! Well not really, but whatev. It sure beats working for a fastfood company.

Just Sittin' Here

I'm just sitting here, and decided that writing a new blog post would be more productive than "facebook stalking" for hours on end. But facebook stalking isn't stalking persay- they posted stuff and let you see it, so really its not invasive at all.

Today was a good day, and it ends with Burn Notice and Royal Pains, so good... it makes me happy. I went to the pool, and then went and hung out with Evan- and got into trouble for going even though I did give a heads up on where i was going, and then came home to chill in the house in my pjs were i came to the realization: laptops have crummy sound systems.

For an audiophile like me that's big. I'm going to spend the moneys to get my music on the Mini to sound the way it should. Which leads me to my rant, **[WARNING]** this rant may contain ridiculous hilarity at the manufacturer's expense and be just horribly mean in general.

The Mini is wonderful it has battery life I would expect of even larger laptops, and can keep up with all of the load intensive applications that I use everyday. It lasts a little more than 2 hours from a full charge and can last that whole time even while running Virtual Dj and Firefox - running Facebook and youTube. It does everything and more than I would want. It holds a LOT of music and I love that. But i really question HP's decision to put the headphone and microphone port together! Really together?! It creates a lot of problems because you can't just use a typical pair of headphones and listen to your music without getting all kinds of feedback and Horrible sound quality. I mean perhaps if I owned an iPhone I would already have the 4 connector mic/headphone for the Mini and would be listening to music just fine, but I don't have one! My question is what was HP thinking??! As a manufacturer you limit the use of a necessary component on your product by narrowing the accessories you can use and then all the support you offer is "well buy an iPhone accessory"! So I am going to have to purchase a $20 dollar breakout cable that takes the combined port and breaks it into two separate jacks: the Microphone Jack and the standard Stereo Headphone Jack. But why couldn't the company just have placed two jacks or provided you a cable which fit the industry standard. WHY WHY WHY do you decide to be essentially for all intensive purposes proprietary and then not include the necessary cable to let your users use their own standard headphones and microphone. So it has prompted me to buy the cable from ShowMeCables.com the awesome cable looks like it will work out super awesomely, but grr why not include the necessary cable? But in addition to that it has gotten me into wanting to purchase this pair of headphones that I think I have wanted since 8th grade and never got the time or money to do so, and with an $80 dollar price tag I remember why. They are really cool but it begs the question: "Are they big enough?"

Overall I find that I really enjoy the Mini, right off the bat it has lots of storage space, mine has 55GB which is a lot for a netbook class computer. And as a netbook it is amazing, and the only thing it would ever need would be maybe an external hard drive, but that would be for super crazy people like me who just have to have all of their music with them everywhere.
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I suppose now would be a good time to try and go to sleep, though it means I have to miss watching Royal Pains, but I guess that is one of the perks of Tivo I can watch it sometime tomorrow.

Because I felt kind of lazy.

I was feeling mostly lazy, and then I remembered Devichan started a blog...So i went to revive mine. Yeah I couldn't find it; it was a scary sad feeling. So i decided to start a new one, and i didn't want a frilly name, or a geeky one and ended up having to fall back on the simplest of latin for my enjoyment. Most people won't understand it, but hey is that really an issue? The majority of blog names are what? the first letter of your favorite food, followed by the last letter of your middle name rounded out by a sequence of digits that come to have no immediate significance other than, "well it was open and convienent at the time" Is that your excuse for having to type 5 digits and a string of nonsense? Just to read about what you and your cat did for fun today?

Oh now im getting mean, thats not cool and its my first post back. Ouch that was quick. You could say I'm harsh and it would be true, but really? I really am not a butthead, i just have a very aggressive and albeit sometimes abrasive personality.

I am really excited about E3 although, much too late, I think i should have cought on to the whole lets watch the keynotes live but found sleeping till noon-thirty much more enjoyable. The only crazyness I have heard is the new iPhone, of course, and the updated PSP platform - sounds like more fun for all my crazy hacking friends yet another console to be broken apart and rebuilt to allow the playing of "import or backup games".

My DM is planning to get an iPhone, which is cool for me because it means I get to upgrade phones. Which is cool but you always have to cost benefit analyze the change process, 1) get shiny cool phone 2) but i have to move all that stuff over... In the end I know i'll probably spend a shiny total of 20 minutes doing it all and then marvel over the palm but hey knowing I could have whined and didn't -- isn't there satisfaction to be had in that?

SO I kind of enjoy talking to the Internet, its like -- talking over loud speaker at the mall but your in a dark room and can't see anyone else. I thought it would be intimidating, but Oh man I really enjoy it. This stream of consciousness, and barely paying any heed to spelling errors or erroneous punctuation is great. I write for me, from me, and my audience is me. If you dont like it there are plenty of blogs just for you. But this is mine, and im a pinch of irony, a heap of random and a shiny penny thrown in for good luck.

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And i suppose like all good bloggers i might as well talk about my day. Gah the dreaded well i fed the cat, no none of that nonsense.

I spent the majority of the day with my sister, chatting away talking about whatever and watching movies. I'm not embarrassed to admit, today I watched Twilight. And man is Edward Cullen angsty, i mean really. It made me want to go buy the Jinx "and then buffy staked edward. The End." shirt like immediately, but seeing as I am broke (well not broke persay but saving money for more important things like college perhaps.) I decided that the better course of action would be to watch one of my top 50 movies ever: High Fidelity.

Perhaps one of my favorite movies because they compulsively list things like I do, "top 5" this that whatever. And watching the movie only made me want to get back to reading the book, which im in the middle of, but cant find the time to read between being sick and the pool and work and facebook of course. In fact I probably would be reading now had I not gotten the Mini and felt compelled to blog.

But yes, I most definately am sick and as my DM pointed out yesterday "yeah,...um hon you burned." At which point i flat out denied her accusations only to be painfully brought to the truth meer hours later.(but the sunburn is not my issue anymore.) The current PIMR is the headache that has been hanging around for the past 3 days and the heat that im producing fighting off whatever it is that I have. Its the kind of heat that makes it uncomfortable to sleep unless im freezing cold or so exhausted I just pass out.(not literally) so I lie down and wait until about 2 at which point i usally am so exhausted i can fall asleep regardless of how uncomfortable I am. The dumb thing is, I didn't think of using ice and ice packs until yesterday, yeah I feel dumb. But the being uncomfortable and heat take backseat to the pain of the headache that won't go away, because the agony it causes if i wait too long to take something for it, sucks. But I'm not a pity partier, i simply was giving you a, as hagz mentioned to me earlier today, Schadenfreunde. Feel better because of my misfortune, go for it. But I really wish i knew what I did to get this dang headache.

Trying to figure out a purpose or general focus for my blog is tough, perhaps I shall ask what it Should be, DM has her crafty one (which i take pictures for btw) and that works for her but what do I blog about other than me? Im up for suggestions.

*DM = [my]Dear Mother
*PIMR = pain in my rear