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Hey all,

I’m at work again, blah, but I had an excellent weekend up in portland. Took Friday off so I could be at the dentist in the morning, came home, hung out with my dad a bit, Pressure Washed my grandparents house, made some cash. Got to replace the logicboard in my Pismo, IT WORKS!!! That was fun. $120 for a working laptop that is pretty nice. I rock.

Got together with another friend I hadn’t seen in a while… that was nice. He’s still working and not doing much else, but I hope he gets his ass in gear soon. His parents are getting divorced after 30 years or so. Shame in many ways, but if you knew them, you could probably have seen it coming. At least they made it to the point of their kids moving out. *sighs* I hope they end up seeing where they’re going and don’t act like typical divorcees and hate eachother or not talk. Just makes it difficult for the children.

Also got together with val and eric (hi there!), and that’s always fun. had some alcohol, played some mario party… proved to them that it is nearly impossible to hit a button 100 times in 10 seconds. sure, maybe for the first few seconds you can keep up that pace, but 10/second for that long is quite difficult. *sighs* perhaps I shall just have to practice more. Hell, even a turbo controller maxes out at 78 for 10 seconds. Guess you could pull the thing appart and replace a resistor or capacitor, al la TI-85 overclocking… but still…

I hate winmodems. there, just thought I’d say that.

I got the serial adapters like I mentioned in the previous post. Kilo and I are going to give them a whirl next time we go out wardriving. They both are supposedly supported under linux… so it should all work.

Short of that, I’m just sitting here on my ass not sure what to do. I have a bunch of stuff I should be doing, but like last time, no real way to do it since nothing seems to be working. *sighs* I’ll figure it out.

See some of you tomorrow, see others of you sometime else. I’m happy I just ate… and tonight I’m going to go to a driving range and take out my troubles on little defenseless balls. Ahhh… nothing quite like it.

Oh, btw… the pictures that got sent off to NY. We have only heard about one of them, it (along with 2 others) went to live auction (meaning more than 10bids during silent auction) and it sold for…. $445. The image that sold for that much is: Here. Bet she wishes she would have gone to Anime Expo now. Just think… we could be getting a check in the mail sometime soon for over $1000. And best of all, they don’t take any kind of cut. Ahhh… isn’t profit wonderful? 😉

Gah, okay, well this post is going to be shorter than the one I initially was writing before Safari decided to crash on me. GAH!

Anywho, today at work was sucky. I came to work with all this stuff to do, fix a Vaio, make darkwing accounts for everyone, map out the wireless network… well, the Vaio is hosed and I don’t know how to fix it, the people that I was going to help make accounts are gone today, and the PC laptop I was going to use to map out the network has a crappy battery. So, I should have just calling in today and gone outside to play. BAH! Frisbee sounds like a lot of fun right now.

On a better note, I got to hang out with some people over at Kat’s last night. We played a little Mario Party, sat around, watched most of OfficeSpace, and cracked some of the homebrew that has been in the works for a couple months now (due entirely to Cock and I being lazy). It is pretty tasty, it just has absolutely no head retension… meaning the hops didn’t do their thing. It undoubtedly is probably a lot like beer was in the 1800’s before they figured out what Hops did to the world of Beer.

I got the logicboard for my dead Pismo (Powerbook 200 and/or Powerbook Firewire). I hope to swap it out tonight up in portland when I have little to nothing else to do. It will be sweet to have another laptop to play with. The biggest thing is going to be getting a bigger HD for it. Right now it’s only got a 6gig drive. Also on the agenda is getting some parts that should fix the lousy serial converter that Kilo is using while wardriving. it’ll be a little more janky, but atleast it won’t be relying on a crappy ass Belkin serial to usb converter. What happened to Belkin? anyone? They used to just make cables, and good ones… then they started buying other companies that made crappy products and they put those out under the belkin name. I’m never buying their stuff again after having to deal with their shitty shitty customer support when trying to return a shitty shitty KVM switch. never buy their stuff… you’re just asking for trouble.

As I already alluded to, I’m headed up to portland tonight, I should be there through Sunday. I know I’m going to miss the lan… it sucks, but unlike my dentist appointment tomorrow morning, the lan has not been planned for the past 6 months. ;-P While in Portland I will no doubt be seeing val and eric, so I hope to do some more tweaking to my website during that time. fear not the change… hopefully it will be entirely for the better. I also am ansy to get the pictures and personal info page up, but that will require some current pictures of myself be taken. perhaps I can talk someone into doing that for me.

I plan to link other people’s blogs off my personal info page, though it seems somewhat ironic since I rarely read other people’s blogs. I find it far more interesting to talk to them in person. Seems hypocritical since I’m sitting here typing away in my own blog… but hey, I never claimed to be perfect… just as close as one can humanly come. 😉

All that said, I think I’m going to pack up my shite and head home. I need to get some stuff together and take a quick nap before leaving tonight as to not kill any of the other “innocent” people on the road. I hope to see other friends while I’m there… including one I was supposed to see last time, but I never got around to seeing. I hope I can get ahold of him… hmmm… this presents a bit of a problem. oh well, you don’t need to hear about it.

Well, take it easy everyone, stay cool if the weather heats back up, or stay dry if another thunderstorm rolls through the area. LIX, have fun at the lan… drink a beer for me, all of you (1 each, not 1 total). All of you that aren’t part of LIX, but otherwise read the site, have a great weekend, and I hope to see some or all of you soon.

ta ta.

After me begging, and val accepting, the site has been tweaked a little more. I hopefully plan to impliment the pictures and links section relatively soon. If anyone can suggest something to put on the main page, that would be great. Something that sums me up, or that I can put a counter on, or something. All suggestions, gross or klein, accepted. Another request, how many days should I have displayed on my blog? It was set to 5, then it rolled last night and there was nothing on my blog, so I kicked it up to 7. A weeks worth seems right. btw, check out my new popup webcam. Right now it only works from the blog section of my site since I have yet to change it for the rest… but it’s coming, slowly.

That said, it’s been rather uneventful since the last post. Work has been kinda boring… I just cleaned up my desk (needed it) and at home I’ve been burning a buttload of anime to cd. My machine is litterally full. Mind you, I only have 2 40gig drives, and an 18gig… but I let it get too bad before doing it. And the server is full too. My 12″ is even getting full, but that’s mostly because I’m keeping a backup of a friend’s stuff on there. So bah… I’m not having much fun at home short of burn burn burn burn burn burn.

I went to the coast over the weekend and got to have a good time with everyone. I missed out on going to the Mariners game, entirely due to poor communication between myself and my ride. So that sucked, but overall, the weekend was good. Came home afterward and cleaned the house up a bit… trying to erradicate an ant migration that has appeared in my kitchen since last week. After cleaning the hell out of the kitchen, it seems to have solved most of it. Now I just see an occational one wandering around wondering what happened to the little spills on the floor. Sucker.

Tara has some art headed to Otokon (sp) right now, they’re going to set it up and sell it for her. I believe it’s one of the biggest in the US (topped by AX I’d imagine) so hopefully we’ll see some nice returns on that. The con starts on Friday, so we should know something on sunday or so.

I’m headed back up to Portland this weekend for a dentist appointment. I know I promised LIX I would be at the LAN this weekend, but unfortunately time has not been on my side this summer. Whine all you want Rachel, I’m sorry I don’t see you guys as much as I used to anymore. But I’m working 40hours/week and I keep having to make these trips to Portland, or the Coast, or where ever. I’ll try my hardest to be around the weekend after this one, and effort and energy willing, I want to have some type of get together at my place.

Anywho… not much else to say. I feel good, I feel healthy… my headache went away after beating it and my liver to death with Excedrin (ahhh the power of mixing pain killers and stimulants).

Ta ta.