Monthly Archives: July 2004

syndication and more template changes 0

I tried switching back to the template that I based my old template on, and it worked, for some insane reason. So I’m going to have to redo the tedious task of making my new template look like my old one. That just is too much work. Piss me off. Speaking of pissing me off, these Drift office antics have to stop. The trash is always overflowing and there are usually soda cans at all the workstations. I AM NOT YOUR MOTHER. Pick up your mess. I’m not emptying the trash any more, I don’t care if it piles ten feet high.  And one of the optical mice has disappeared. I don’t know whether Mike Ovick had anything to do with that, but I doubt it. Anyway, I’m trying to syndicate my blog with Feedster (a new web tool I’m obsessed with). Feedster is a blog search engine. It’s so sweet. Well, the XML feed for my blog is:

http://www.retroviral.net/blog/rss.xml

I need to learn  about how XML and CSS work. Maybe then I would be able to make a blog template that was cool. Okay, I’m going to go and work on finding a good template.

fair crap 0

I’m typing up the fair crap, my last thing to do, and now I’m done! Off to the college! Yay!

new mouse! 0

Stacey came by and gave us all new mice! I have an optical one now! Yay!

ouchies 0

My wrists hurt really bad from typing, wearing the braces at night just isn’t enough. Must get back to work, this typing is just making it worse and isn’t getting me any closer to leaving.

just got to work, it’s going to be a bad day. 0

My “check engine” light came on during the drive to work. I think I know what makes it turn on: the highway. Every time I take the highway it turns on. So it’s boring Lake Earl Drive from now on. Oh, it’s been weird, I haven’t gotten a single red light on the drive to work the last two days. So strange. Watched a great ATHF last night. Hmm, I keep thinking there was something I wanted to blog, but I can’t remember what it was. Oh well, it will come to me. Oh, I remember what it was now, this George Pantell character wrote another letter. I get so annoyed with his letters because he uses at least three commas per sentence. It is SO infuriating. Okay, must go.

lethargy and template redesigns 0

I’ve been meaning to work on my blog’s template, but just haven’t been in the mood until now. I tried switching back to the old template, but it still just didn’t work. So I’m going to modify this one. Oh, I dyed my hair today. It looks nice, except for the blotches of color on my forehead. I’m going to have to wear it creatively tomorrow to not let anyone see them. I hate it when people ask me what that is and I tell them that I color my hair. It’s just…revealing something so personal. Okay, done with the template changes. Love me love me. Watched this hackneyed American Werewolf in Paris movie, it was mildly entertaining. I can’t wait until I get paid so I can get blank DVDs and copy House on Haunted Hill. I hung out with Amanda for a while after work, Tawna left I guess. Her picture book thingy is still in my back seat. Gosh, it’s almost one. I should get to sleep if I hope to be awake tomorrow. Oh, Daniela called me and SHE SAW EDWARD!!! He works at the casino now! Oh! And Daniela said that she would marry me if I set it all up! Yay! I’m going to be a married man! I’m going to cheat the government out of insane amounts of money. Yay yay yay. I should research this though. We’d better sign prenuptual agreements or something. Hmm. Tomorrow. But OMG Edward! I can’t believe that she talked to him. Yay. Watched an ATHF I hadn’t seen before, it was good. I should get to sleep. I installed Excel on my computer here and copied all that stuff from that Excel document that that lady sent me at work but I couldn’t open because Western Communications is homosexual and doesn’t own a copy of Office for mac. Oh well. It took all of five minutes.

My hair looks nice. All nice and dark. I can’t wait until it gets long. And I can’t wait until payday! RAM here I come! Okay, must go. I am sleep typing (but that’s what I do all day, it’s my modus operandi). I really like Royce. It’s sad that I don’t have the courage to talk to him. It would never work. I need to take some pictures of him before he leaves.

boredom, DVD-Rs, and hair dye. 0

I’m at work on lunch. I just finished my nectarine I brought for lunch. Not much going on here, it isn’t as hellish as I thought it would be. I just have to finish the community calendar and FYI. Stacey gave me this press kit thing that Dreamworks sent us about this movie called Collateral. I must stop on the way home and buy some DVD-Rs, all I have are RWs, and I used them all up backing up my files. A 25-pack of DVD-Rs would do me. That would be enough to back up all my movies. I need labels too, but I’m too cheap to get them. Oh well. Okay, I need to get back to work so I can get off work and go and buy a box of hair dye. Must peel myself off of my computer and go. Oh! I realized that the brightness, contrast, and resolution of my monitor were waaay down. I turned them up and it makes me very happy! I like my workstation now. Okay, must go.

acute lack of boredom 0

God, this weekend was such a blur. But a good blur nonetheless. On Friday, Daniela called me and we went driving around looking for something to do. We went to Brookings, and on the way I had a bit of an epiphany. Daniela was talking to me and trying her hardest to make the story she was telling interesting and funny. I was watching her talk, and thinking “Does she think she’s being clever?” And then I realized that it’s my worst nightmare for someone to think that while I’m talking, so I immediately banished the thought from my head. We drove to Brookings and went to Fred Meyer and looked at stuff (they had this really nice glass top computer desk for only like $70). And they had black furry pillows! Crazy. Well, we then went back into town and saw the Relay for Life thing, so we went and checked that out. I just found it INSANELY amusing, and I don’t know why. Just the lunacy of it all, turning cancer into a religion. The slogans “find a cure” really got me thinking. It’s not cancer they want to beat, it’s death. We’re all going to die someday, and nobody wants to face that. Ever. There will always be a leading cause of death. In 400 years they’ll be holding Relay for Left. “Cure left-handedness forever! We will find a cure! Left handedness kills more people a year than anything!” Sad. They hold things like that simply to make people think that they’ll be remembered after they die. Which they won’t be. Daniela gave me a ride home and I think I watched ATHF.

Saturday was cool. My dad went to this stupid horse thing so I got to watch Trainspotting on it’s early showtime on IFC. It was SUCH A GREAT MOVIE. I loved it. Since it got over around eight, I’m all “woohoo I’m going to go into town and get two layer pans so I can make a devil’s food cake!” (Oh, I forgot to mention this, my mom deposited $50 in my account.) So I went into town, and went to the video rental place to see if there was a good movie to rent. Nothing. Depressed, I journeyed on to Wal-Mart for my pans. They only had one. Piss me off. So I just went home. I was all sad, but Tawna had called for me while I was gone and she told me her plan to go to Eureka and do a bunch of fun stuff after she gets her grant. It’s going to be fun. And we decided to have a movie night the next day. I think I watched some TV and then went to sleep.

Sunday was really fun, we did our movie night thing. I went into town around one, picked up Tawna, and we went to Tara’s house to pick her and her boy toy Kyle up. Luckily, they were there and we dragged them around to get stuff for the movie extravaganza. We stopped at Dollar Tree and I got the candy cigarettes Tawna had been telling me about and I got some sunglasses because it was SO sunny that day I couldn’t see anything (I was wearing my contacts). Then we went to Safeway and Tawna got French bread and I got a Foccacia thingy. It was yummy. Then we went to Wal-Mart for orange soda, and then we went to my house and ate bread and soda. Then we watched The Doom Generation. I think everyone was entertained by it. It’s the best movie ever. Oh! I finally downloaded some DVD copying software, so I’m going to get some DVD-Rs tomorrow and burn Amanda The Matrix and Tawna The Doom Generation. And I can burn House on Haunted Hill (the original) for myself. God I’m tired. And I have to wake up in like seven hours. No, eight hours. Oh, I saw Molly at Safeway, that was crazy. I was all “We have bread!” It made me laugh.

Gosh, Friday is payday. The fateful day of turning-on-of-the-new-computer draws closer. I’m really not going to be able to use it for anything productive until I buy my hard drive and buy a legal copy of Windows XP, and a legal copy of Norton Antivirus. XP is SO EXPENSIVE. Oh well. I seriously doubt I’ll be able to afford a copy of XP. Oh well. We’ll see. I’ll just be amazed if the damn thing turns on and the processor doesn’t melt after ten minutes. Oh, that reminds me. I need razor blades and thermal compound. Must hit the computer store tomorrow. I DO NOT WANT TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW. I hate that place. I hate the tedium. I saw a copy of the paper and this one neighbors page item that was supposed to have a pic went in without one, and it’s the one who was pissed at me the other day. There will be hell to pay. But it really isn’t my fault, I don’t put the shit on the page, it’s Matt’s job. Mouhahahahahahaha. However, I don’t think I specified that there was a picture when I typed it up. I could be really mean and go back into the file and write “WITH PICTURE,” but I like Matt.

The moment of truth grows nearer and nearer. I REALLY hope that my computer works. It will suck enourmous amounts of ass if it doesn’t. I’ll cry. Really I will. Well, we’ll see. I hate that place SOOO much. Okay, must not obsess about work.

Oh yeah, after the movie Me, Tawna, Kyle, and Tara went down to the beach (it was so beautiful). We played around wading in the sand and walking around. Tara and Tawna buried Kyle, then they all buried me. It was cool. Then we all went back into town and I dropped everybody off. To my dismay on the way back my “check engine” light turned on, and I have no fucking clue what it could be. I wasn’t even using my air conditioning (which I never do any more). I had just gotten my oil changed, what could it be? I am not in the financial situation to find out, however, so I’m stuck with the light. Evil check engine light. Well, I thought I had a lot to blog about, but I guess it all just slipped out of my head. I can remember moments where I was all “I must blog this!” but except for the Daniela anecdote I can’t really think of anything. Well, after I dropped everyone off I stopped at Safeway to use the bathroom, then I headed home. I stopped at Royce’s on a whim, and he was home. I swear, he is always under the influence when I stop by. Which I could actually use to my advantage, had I the courage to flirt with him. We like the same music and stuff. But it just wouldn’t work. He doesn’t have a phone. I know that sounds really petty, but come on. Imagine a relationship without a phone. It doesn’t work. I would have no way of getting in touch with him.

Maybe I’m just rationalizing. I love him, but I love him too much to try to like, physically…I don’t know what I’m saying. It’s just, the image of us having sex or making out or something just completely ruins the image of him in my mind. He’s beautiful the way he is. It’s one of those Of Human Bondage things. When he liked me I liked Peng and now I like him but can’t tell him. It just makes me want to have a good cry. He’s so beautiful. He’s moving too, the tattoo place is closing because the owner of the building is selling it. I really do want to have a good cry. A good cry for unrequited love. I think I’m going to watch Requiem for a Dream when I get home tomorrow and have a good cry after I dye my hair (I’m sick of my roots, I’ll just do it myself and see how crappily it will come out). Oh, but Molly has Requiem. Damn. I wonder how she liked it. I’ll watch Edward Scissorhands and cry. But it’s not the same experience. Requiem is just so uber-depressing. I’m getting more and more depressed as I write this. Not good. I should get to sleep and hasten the arrival of the hell that rushes towards me with every passing hour: work.

old ladies will be the army of SATAN 0

If I have learned one thing from this job, it is this:

Old men = nice

Old ladies = MEAN

This crazy old lady from the Widowed Persons of Del Norte wanted this letter published and it was exactly the same as this other letter that had already gone in last week. But Mike was all “why don’t you go type this in” just because it’s Bev Wier (one of the illustrious Wiers) and she’s the chairperson of that damn committee. And because she’s an old bitchy lady. Fuck her. Fuck her dead husband. Fuck her little emotional masturbation group. I’d better get back to work.

DVD burner and various misanthropy 0

I got my DVD burner yesterday and my fans, I installed the fans, took the CD burner out of Montag and put it in the Wonkaputer, then installed the DVD burner in Montag. Well, I already had Nero’s DVD burning software installed, so I just opened up the Nero burney-thing, selected DVD, and it took a while but I made the DVD all pretty (It’s a DVD of all my music videos I’ve downloaded). It took a while to make, then I hit burn. It’s all “Encoding streams… 1min elapsed 19h remaning” Yes, 19 HOURS. It had better be worth it, when I get home around five it should be done. Montag is the slowest computer ever. It was halfway done this morning. I hope my DVD player will play it. Even if not, with the video card I’m getting, I’ll be able to play it on the TV. Sweetness. I got here early, like 9:30. I’m hoping to stay kind of late. Letters are being a pain. I couldn’t find any maps online of the Smith River National Recreation Area. I need to stop by the Forest Service after I get off work. I know that I’m supposed to be on the clock while doing that, but I’ve wasted a bit of time today and it will all even out at the end. Hm, done with my baby carrots and apple. I’d better clock back in and get back to work. Oh, Amanda offered to buy my computer yesterday. It’ll be a while though, I still need RAM $120, and a video card (around $70). Okay, back to work. I want to get out of here. Today is the last day of the pay period, so I should work a bit extra, however. I’m hoping to stay until around two. I mean, there are neighbors items and stuff. I’ll be busy enough. Well, back to work. I hope tawna and the gang are in the clubhouse once I get off work.