A semi-daily journal of my routines and what I perceive of things going on around me.
This just showed up as a pending charge on my bank statement
01/13/10 APL*MOBILEME WWW.ME.COM 01 $106.92
This was a CC charge to my bank card. I contacted Wells Fargo to report this and they are sending it up to the people who investigate this. Hopefully I get my money back, though I’m not optimistic. For the time being, I have had that card cancelled and am getting a new one.
I had been putting off a couple things in the kitchen. First I filled this dumb hole that the previous owners had created which you can see below. Now that it is filled in and painted, I finished up my project of getting an amp installed and a speaker setup on top of the catwalk.
After that, there were two electrical outlets on the bottom side of the catwalk up above, with some help I relocated them to the topside so they would be unseen. Well, just recently I patched over and then textured the holes on the bottom side. Today, I painted them.
We also just got bullrushed by a ton of snow today, it’s still coming down like crazy too.
I have the lighting installed and my furniture in place. Next up is the trim molding and the door molding. I only got one shot, so I am adding in a cool photo of Yakko.
So I’m really f’n hungry right, and here’s what food I have:
1 can of green beans
1/2 can of whole kernel corn
1/2 cup of milk
1 box of generic cheerios
1/2 bag of brown rice
2 slices of bread (one is crust because my roommate is a retard)
~2tbsp of strawberry jam
I gank some peanut butter from my roommate (because my roommate is a retard and eats all of mine) and make a crust and jelly sandwich and cook up some brown rice. Did I mention that it takes 35 minutes to microwave a cup of brown rice? 35 minutes! Holy shit! I’m hungry….
So I suck for never posting anything, probably because I don’t think I ever have anything interesting to talk about. Today I finally have something interesting to share.
Yesterday was the first game of the season for my Co-ed softball team, sponsored by Eli’s Bar & Grill (thanks guys!). The day started off with total embarrassment by the way of a 15-0 blowout, we couldn’t hit a ball to save our lives (we had a total of four base runners in four innings) and our first pitcher walked more batters than he didn’t. In Co-ed softball, if you walk a guy, he advances to second base, needless to say that padded the other team’s score a bit.
After that thrashing we all headed over to Eli’s for a jolly night of sloshing. Lots of beer, 151 and a cruel mixture of Wild Turkey, Rumplemintz and Jaegermeister (called a kickin’ turkey) were consumed. Needless to say, I was hammered drunk! To make things worse, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s peer (same position, different department) was hitting on me and getting me to dance badly and I felt like a fool. On top of this, there was a pretty hot chick that I was diggin who was absolutely smashed, so that went no where.
Fast forward to closing time, I grab my shit, drop a $10 tip and start heading for the door. Well, a third chick I hadn’t even mentioned yet asks, “can you give me a ride home tomorrow morning?” OH SHIT! If that isn’t an invitation to get some action, I don’t know what is. She’s okay looking, but I was wearing beer goggles, so I don’t give a hump. We hop in the car, and she immediately says, “we should go over to Council Bluffs and get some beer and then make out.” Btw, bars in Omaha close at 1am and in Council Bluffs, they close at 2am. Fast forward to 1:45am, we’re in CB and I got a case of beer in the back seat and we’re in some random bar getting another drink. 2am comes around and we get thrown out, so we head to my place.
DAMMIT, my roommate is home. We decided to kick it in the basement where I have some sweet couches (leather for the win!) and have a bit more privacy. Keep in mind, we still have not “made out” and I’m trying to advance the situation. Not 10 minutes later did she FUCKING PASS OUT ON THE COUCH! Fuck. Shit. Fine, I go to sleep on the other couch.
A few hours later (I know this because the sun just came up) I get woken up to the sounds of snoring. I have a horrible hangover at this point and now I’m forced to deal with snoring. This isn’t quite as bad as a man’s version of snoring, but the idea that I am 4 feet away from a chick snoring in my basement…. 60 minutes later, my roommate wakes up and so does his daughter. He decides that it is a good idea to turn on some christian rock music… and turn it up real loud. WTF loud christian rock music?! 45 minutes of this torture (she’s just now waking up) and they finally leave to his parents place. She wants breakfast, so I oblige. We hit up Village Inn and I fulfill my original promise of taking her back to her car in the morning. $30 and 10 hours later, I have nothing to show for myself except a hangover and 11 Bud Lights in the fridge.. make that 10.
-FIN-
Last night was the big upgrade, my fellow linoders and I brought in a fifth person to share the cost and we decided to upgrade from a 120 to a 160. This offers us better performance and more disk space and should work out quite well, a side bonus is that the new host server has fewer linodes on it and is probably of higher quality hardware than the old host server. I can already tell a big difference, I’m quite happy with the change. I’ve already checked and the performance on my gallery and truck’s blog are quite nice. You can view them yourself, www.backslider.net/gallery2/ and www.truck-web.us.
The pan newsreader just got it’s first real update in over two years, 0.90 was released yesterday. It looks real promising, it has some nice speed improvements and looks a bit nicer. I say promising because it less stable than windows 95 at the moment, though in fairness its just a beta. I look forward to updates.
04/05/2006 edit: An update was made to Pan yesterday which fixed some of the instability issues I noticed, so far it works quite a bit better.
So far the tournament has been pretty exciting, unfortunately Texas lost in the elite 8 to LSU. Seeing George Mason make the final four is pretty crazy, especially seeing as only four people in all of ESPN’s Tourney Challenge picked them to win. Good luck to them.
