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It’s a Love/Hate thing…

Ugh.

Resons I hate Windows:

Had to re-install my old Dell laptop today to get linux off it… After an hour of installation, I went to run windows update… “ERROR: NO NETWORK CARD”! So I look, no drivers… So then I go searching for a damn CD that’s long since lost.. Finially find it (Hiding under a desk somewhere). Pop it in, and there’s this wonderful list of 16 Drivers i have to MANUALLY install!

Hello people? Why not have ONE PROCESS that just installs them all automatically.. For each fucking one, I had to unzip (4 clicks), then install (4-10 clicks). Ugh!

And then, once I got that done… A wonderful HOUR of fucking windows update and 4 reboots later, it’s finially working… With zero software. :'(

Reasons I love Iowa:

I had to call Allied today to update a bunch of things and do other stuff… Everyone was so friendly! And chatty and they asked me about the weather here, and this girl told me the story bout how she was just here from Iowa and depressed about the June Gloom… It was so funny, and we chatted about the move and how scary it is… People were just WAY more friendly then ANY OTHER help desk line I’VE EVER CALLED. I thank Allied, and the midwest for that! 🙂

Reasons I hate the Post Office:

I need to change some stuff and fix things at my new place… So I look around.. The post office DOES NOT list ANY of the local branch phone numbers! VERY ANNOYING. Because the 800 number puts you into this continus loop of automatted shit!

Reasons I love my MacBook:

It’s so sexy. 🙂

Preparing Again

So…. two years ago, I was preparing for the biggest move of my life… Now here I am preparing for another big move, although not near as bad.

The last few days have been stressful and very long. Although, I’ve been getting to bed on time, it just feels like they have been much longer.

Yesterday I went out biking with Rob, and also went shopping for some things I need at the new place. I wanted to buy one of those fun Curver ShowerRods… Who knew they were $40?!? Plus I had to go to three stores before I could even find people selling them!

It was also a LONG day at work. I’m trying to get everything off my old laptop and onto the new one, which is proving to be a pain in the ass. Why does ORACLE never work right the first fucking time! Ugh, I hate this product! I also hate Coldfusion, why are the two things I do more have to use both of those so fucking much! Ugh.

I also hate stupid bitchy drivers… Today I was driving to work, and turning left from MacArthur onto Campus.. The light was red, so I was slowing down to stop. As I’m coming up to it, the light turns green…. I was still slowing a little bit though so that I could make the damn turn… All of a sudden this jackass comes FLYING past me on the left (in the traffic lane for people coming the other way) blaring his horn and flipping me off!… Excuse me bitch!? What the fuck did I do!?!?! I wanted to just bash into him so fucking badly. Jackass.

Dustin is back home this week and seeing all the pictures he’s posting and all the blogs he’s writing makes me want to get my ass home so badly. How I miss thee!

My new MacBook is so fucking cool… When apple came out with the FrontRow application, I thought it was really stupid. But alas, it is so fucking cool! I’m sure it won’t get much use from it since I don’t keep videos, etc on my laptop. But for someone looking to use it as a media center it’s amazing! I also found this fun program called IAlertU. Once you set it with your remote, if anyone tries to move, touch or unplug your laptop it sets off a car alarm like sound and takes a picture with the built in iSight. You can only disarm it with the remote that came with your laptop too… It’s so cool!

Robert hooked me up with this boy in RB, he lives like 2 blocks from my new place… We’ve been writing novels back and forth to each other lately. Sadly, he’s got friends in town till next weekend, but it seems like I’ve already found a potential friend up there! If you’ve seen next with the Ep where the boys go flying, and the Nextor has a dog, well that’s him. The point is, hopefully we’ll be friends! haha.

My Mom’s B-day is coming up soon… I dunno what to do for it.

Well, I’ve already wasted enough time writing this. I have to pack the last of my office up today for it’s transfer to SM tomorrow.

Adios!

Last Weekend as an OCer

Well, my last weekend as an OC Boy. 🙁

And it was honestly pretty fun!

Friday I didn’t do anything too fun. I worked, got bored and went home early. Mostly because I needed to download Fedora to actually DO any work, and it’s faster to go home and download it then it is to try and do it here at the office. I also went on a bike ride, went shopping for a bunch of stuff and did some other random stuff.

Ended up staying in that night though because I was tired and not feeling all that great. Watched The Producers. It was really good and I want to go see the play so badly now! Went to bed early.

Saturday I got up and did Laundry till like noon and then Austin called, so I went over there and we went down to Laguna Beach. Spent like 3 hours there hanging out and stuff and then went back to his place and showered and met Joel and Ryan in Dana Point for Sushi. It was a good day.

From there we all separated and I went home for like an hour before meeting up with Joel and Ryan at thier place for pre-drinks. 11ish we headed out to the boom. Had a fairly good night there, some random people came up and talked to him. The guy was really cute and I tried talking to him more, but he didn’t really seem too interested in talking. 🙁 They were asking me if I was from Kansas.

Ryan and Joel started talking to this random 34 year old guy. Who I thought was really nasty and creepy. Anyways, they invited him to Jack-in-the-box. I think they were trying to hook me up with him. But before the night was over, it was Ryan who got the hook up.

Anyways, after JITB, we were heading back to the car when Ryan decided he had to pee, so the random guy invited us up to his place so that he could do that… Then of course Ryan kept talking and we couldn’t get the hell out of there.. Needless to say I was REALLY pissed and Ryan ended up hoooking up with the random guy in the bathroom while Joel and I were sitting out on the balcony.

Finially got out of there at like 3am. Got home and just crashed.

Sunday I got up and was just lounging around the house. Went shopping at the Shops and got a second power adapter for my MacBook. Got home from that and was just sitting down when Andrew called and wanted to hang out. So I went up there and Austin met us. We watched Golden Girls and then went shopping at the block. I bought a really cute stripped shirt… Just what Austin HATES! lol.

Speaking of though. That boy is so fucking wierd. He IMed me on friday and was like, “We need to hang out more, blah blah blah” it was so wierd. But it was days like Sat/Sun that made me like him so much in the first place, hopefully that doesn’t cause an issue again. Though I’m doubtful it will.

I also got a bit depressed this weekend about the whole Dustin issue, it was really sad and annoying. I’m just so ready to fucking find someone and get a life started with my partner!

Which brings us to the Andrew issue… as he stated in his latest blog, we’re both looking for the same things, and we could get that out of each other.. But honestly, I just don’t think another relationship between the two of us would work out. There’s just too much history and stuff there now. I think we’re just bound to be friends. Hopefully for life. Plus with him moving in a year… who knows.

Andrew and I went and picked up the keys to my apartment, it kinda made me not as excited about it was I was originally. I got a much better look at the kitchen and bathroom, and they are both pretty gross… Mostly the floors are really gross… I was thinking I could get some of those sticky floors and just put those down or something to make it better… It is much bigger then I remembered. So that’s good.

The Black Rider..

So lets see…. What’s happened since I last updated?

Well not much! I went up to sign the lease with the guy… I’ve decided he’s CRAZY! We talked for like an hour, he was telling me about the “dating” scene in LA, how you should never take a woman to dinner on the first date, etc. He was so random! But he can get me into the Magic Castle anytime I want. 🙂 So that’s fun! But yeah, I’m excited!

So I’m having a moving party on June 11th, everyone should come help me move! 🙂 Let me know if you wanna help!

I got my MacBook Pro yesterday too. I was a bit annoyed with the config they got me though. 80Gig HD, and (2) 512 Chips. I was hoping for at least the 100Gig, sinnce that’s what I have now, and it’s nearly full. And I was hoping for the (1) 1Gig RAM chip, so that way I could take out one of my 512 chips from my current laptop and have 1.5gigs ram… Cause I really need it most of the time. But I can’t complain.

I think what I’m going to do this weekend is copy all my stuff over to the 80 gig drive, then take it out and put in my 100Gig. Then put the 80 Gig in my old laptop. I just hope it works, cause I think the 80Gig drive is a SATA. I suppose I should check that out. Blast that’ll be annoying if it doesn’t work!

After that I think I’m going to sell my current laptop… No point in keeping two Powerbook laptops around… $1,000 anyone???

Tuesday, I didn’t really do much. Worked late into the night, went on a bike ride with Jon… this time I got a flat tire!! How annoying. Apparently the powers that be, don’t want us to ride together. Today I’m going to go get a new tire and try again with him.

Yesterday, I worked and then went up to LA to see a play with Dustin. I knew he was going to be there way early because he had this interview, so I figured I’d go up and hang out with him early so that way he wasn’t bored in walking around downtown by himself.. It’d also give me a chance to talk to him about the situation… Anyways, I was planning on leaving at 5, get there by 6:30… 7 at the latest… With traffic and all that.

But then I got bored at work and left at 4, amazingly there was like NO traffic, so I was there at 5:15… I called him, no answer. I figure maybe he’s still in his interview or something, no big deal. So I sit down and read my book for an hour and then call him again…. No Answer. So now I start to get annoyed. I mean he KNEW I was coming up at some point. What if I was horribly lost or something.

So I keep reading my book… And I finially see him standing over by a coffee cart at like a little before 7… I was right in the middle of a chapter, so I finished that up and took my book back to my car and then went around to meet him. By this point, I was REALLY pissed, both at his failure to answer his phone, lots of other random things throughout the day, and also saddened by seeing him for the first time since the message…. So I walk up to him and am pretty bitchy. He says he forgot his phone at the office….

Now, I know I really have no right to be mad at him for not answering his phone, I mean he had no idea I was coming up so early, but when I make the effort to come up and be nice to hang out with him some before hand, it just really frustrates me when things don’t go as planned…

Well, ok.. It pisses me the hell off when things don’t go as I have planned… I’m bitchy like that, what can I say.

Anyways, so we go into the play. The Black Rider . It was REALLY good. The lighting, stage direction, and set were AMAZING. The acting and singing were great, and the story… Although hard to follow at times, was very good. I highly suggest eveyone go see it… Tickets were only $20!

During intermission, Dustin smoked… I walked out on him for that. (Well walked away from him back into the theater). I can’t believe he does that. :'(

After the play I drove back to his place and we had a good chat before going to bed… I kept wanting to bring up the message, but was always just too scared to get into it. Ugh. He leaves Friday to go back home for a while…

Today I’m working in Santa Monica, oh the joys. I’ve had like 3 hours of sleep. ::yawn:: Tonight I have to be back by 4 because people are coming over to buy my desk! Yay for $50! 🙂

I added up the moving costs yesterday as well… So far it’s cost me a grand total of $1600 to fucking move 40 miles! And my cell phone bill is going to be well over $100 this month… When I usually pay only $45.

Adios. Y’all!

Edit://

One Year ago, I posted a thing about my e-mail… So I thought I’d do the same for this year. 🙂

May 1-31: 7,777

Jan 1 – Today: 27,025

How much of that do I actually read? Not very much! 🙂

Also check out my myspace for a sexy new pic!!

I Hate IE!

Ugh. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! Why can’t fucking M$ follow standards?!

I’m trying to code these sites for people. I use Safari and Firefox to test all my sites. They look great in those browsers. I try and verify everything against the code validator site, and usually do a pretty good job with it. But then!

I go and use IE, and it looks like shit! There’s borders all the way around things, when the CSS clearly states there should only be a border-bottom! The font sizes are all fucked up, and it’s not using the default font that I tell it to use! Ugh, this is so annoying!

There are standards for a reason people! Learn to use them!

More work drama… Yesterday as I was getting ready to leave the VP came into my office and told me not to sign any leases till things are decided on. Ugh! I’ve got like 2 weeks to find a place to live!

I’m out.