I just got to the office and this page is just pissing me off. Jill put a keyline around EVERYTHING. But at least she took some initiative and actually did some work. I’m on my last piece of candy in the office. I think I’m going to just get hungry and go home. Oh well. I’d better at least get some work done before that happens.
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> :wumpscut: – Deliverance
I just finished the überbackup that I’ve been needing to do for months. I’m SO glad I bought Nero instead of my sound card, but if I’d have gotten the sound card I would be saying the exact opposite. However, buying Nero was the prudent thing to do. I feel good that Creative’s site blows. I feel good that my computer is all refreshed and new. It’s running really fast. Yay. I’m defragmenting now. Here’s how it all turned out:
Gotta love PartitionMagic. I haven’t put all my files back on yet, that’s why my partitions look so empty. I put all my music back on first (of course), I’ll do my other crap later when I need it. I successfully migrated my Firebird e-mail, but I couldn’t migrate my Firefox user profile. That was really annoying, I had to reinstall my plugins but it wasn’t really that annoying at all because it imported my old bookmarks that I had exported. So all in all it was a painless re-format process. I still have yet to update to Service Pack 2 though.
I’ve been thinking of getting a new motherboard with better SATA support and maybe a 1GB stick of RAM, but I’m really done with my PC. I just need that sound card and video input card and I’m done with it. At the end, I will have poured probably $1600 into this system. And it is a damn good system.
I can’t wait for it to be done, because then I will begin saving up for a Mac. Whether it’s an iBook or a Mac Mini I have yet to decide, but I will get to start saving. Well, the iBook of my dreams is about $1600, and the Mac Mini of my dreams is about $900, plus a display (which I would have to buy separately). I think that it’s going to be the Mac Mini. Well, at least it has a degree of portability that my current machine doesn’t have. I can throw my Mac Mini into a backpack and go out the door, which is not the case with my current machine. I guess I want too much performance out of my notebook. I should just get a crappy iBook, because it’s mostly for portability anyway. Eh, the 12-inch screen one is about $1200 with not many bells and whistles. Shoot, I don’t think I can stomach spending that much money on something that I could just drop and lose everything. For that much money I could get an AMAZINGLY SWEET mac mini with wireless keyboard and mouse, AirPort built in, and 1GB of RAM. I can’t afford an iBook with all the bells and whistles. Ooh, you can get an Apple Credit Account too…yum. Crap! Credit. I shouldn’t have credit. Credit is bad. Double crap. It’s 2:02 a.m. I must run Windows Update a few times and then go to sleep.
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> :wumpscut:
After Econ, me and Joe and Casey and Josh hung out, it was really fun. Gotta love drugs. We watched Event Horizon and Poultergeist. It was fun, but I’m totally exhausted. I did okay at work, I just drank a bunch of caffiene. I just watched two ABSOLUTELY STUPID shows on Sci-Fi. I hate the shows where they don’t film much new, it’s mostly just flashbacks. I fucking hate flashback shows. And there were fucking two in a row. First Stargate SG:1 then Stargate Atlantis. Both were pointless flashback episodes with no point. Pissed me off. Almost more than the incessant boner pill/boner enlargement pill commercials. So I’m in an absolutely foul mood listening to Wumpscut. I never listen to Wumpscut unless I’m in a foul mood. Well, I don’t listen to their harder stuff. My dad is gone. I made myself “fiesta rice” as I call it, it’s rice with cheddar cheese all melted into it with hot sauce all mixed in. It’s really really yummy. But now I’m full and exhausted and COLD (I’m going to go turn on the heat right now, I don’t care if Asshole says something pissy when he gets back). When I have to keep a coat on in my own room, it’s too fucking cold.
I have a take-home Econ test to do this weekend. It should be a cinch, he went over everything like ten fucking times, basically it’s just the class where me and Joe exchange sarcastic glances whenever someone says something dumb. During the break me and him and Naiya talked in the hall about how we hated the paintings. They were done by my boss’s wife, it was a bit strange. But yeah, it was REALLY fun last night. But I can’t convey that because I’m very tired and possibly a bit hung over.
I was supposed to go into the office and fix up page one and send it (it’s the last thing to do) but I was in there starving and so exhausted, and I thought to myself “Why the fuck am I doing this?” I hate this. I’m alone. I’m the last staff member. I might as well do what everyone else has done, give in to the Dave Throgmortons of the world and just let the paper (the only voice of the STUDENTS on campus) die. Who fucking cares any more. I’m so tired. I’m tired of everything. I just went home and watched those stupid shows and ate my rice. The Throgmortons will always win. Power corrupts, and power over the administration of a community college turns one into a pathetic, inept megalomaniac. I don’t know why I’m blaming him. People in positions of authority deserve blame when their staffs are fleeing like rats from a sinking ship. I hate this hive of disgusting people. There just is no hope. I’m too tired to burn backups, I’m too tired to read. I want to take a bath, but I would have to clean the tub, and that’s out of the question. I should just go the fuck to sleep and get up early so I can work on my computer and my Econ homework. If I’m not in this shitty mood then maybe I’ll go there and work. I’ll just have my mom call me and keep me company. Oh shit, I have a creative writing assignment due Wed. And I should start writing my short story thing. The sooner I write the shitty first draft, the better I’ll be able to polish it. Okay, tomorrow. I am going to brush my teeth and go to bed.
The sad truth is that I just don’t give a fuck about anything anymore.
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I wrote another post last night but it got deleted. Anyway, I’m supposed to meet Jill at 5:30 to finish working on the Drift, I’m so exhausted. And I have to do my Econ homework and go to my class tonight. So freaking tired. Josh let me borrow this cool hat. It’s a pretty cool hat. My dad is watching that stupid fucking Top Ten Fake News Stories with Keith Olbermann. I fucking hate that shit. I don’t know how my mom put up with fourteen years of that bullshit. I like my new painting. It’s cool. I should get another canvas sometime and do another one. Eh. I have $30 in my bank account (but more in my savings), so I won’t be buying much other than gas at this juncture. Josh talked me into applying for this Amazon.com Visa card cuz you get a $30 credit on your Amazon.com purchases. I’m not going to use it for anything frivolous if I get it. Just the sexy $30 credit! W00t. Maybe I’ll like, pay my insurance and Internet with it or something to build credit. That would be cool. I have to go to the bathroom and take off my shoes and get into more comfy clothes, then I’ll return and help Jill out with the paper. Friday is D-day. D meaning DATA BACKUP. Oh yeah, biotch. I love playing with my computer. Especially when I get to let it be re-born! God I’m so weird.
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I bought Nero today online, got the serial e-mailed to me in like two seconds. Josh seemed amazed. I invited him to bring his laptop over and marvel at my high-speed Internet. I file-transfered him a bunch of porn while chatting using my new version of Trillian. It was sweet. It was giving me 3,500KB/sec transfer speeds to him through my router, it was INSANE. I loved it. So of course since I bought Nero I’m getting ready to format my partitions (change them around a bit) and then re-install my operating system. So I’m in the backup mood. I made a nice list of everything before I began. The steps are:
1)Clean out the desktop, then the My Documents folder, then the Desktop partition.
2) Assess the file sizes and discs needed for each folder to be backed up (i.e. how many DVDs the music backup will take, etc.)
3) Burn the files
4) Ruminate for a few days to see if there’s anything else I could possibly need from the hard drive that I forgot.
5) Delete all the files I’ve burned (after I make sure that they are on the discs).
6) Run PartitionMagic and create a “Games” partition right after my “Programs” partition, change both partitions to 8 GB.
7) Put the “My Documents” partition right after the “Games” partition instead of at the end of the drive
8) Resize all other partitions accordingly
9) Re-install Windows XP on to the windows partition, re-install all software and settings from backup discs.
Here’s my big list of stuff to back up:
Trillian chat logs and settings
Trillian setup and Key
MusicMatch Software and Key
MusicMatch Playlists
Norton Internet Security Installer and Key
Diablo II saved games
Nero 6.6 Installer and Key
Mozilla Thunderbird Profile(and XML RSS subscriptions)
Mozilla Firefox Profile (and Mozilla Bookmarks)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking user profile
Creative Webcam drivers/software
Web Site + other My Documents crap
Dancing Skeleton Screensaver
DVD Shrink Setup
Winamp Setup
DAEMON tools Setup
Warpath Setup
WinRAR Setup
Quicktime w/ iTunesSetup
RealPlayer Setup
Internet Keyboard Software (Microsoft Keyboard)
Folding@Home Software
Okay, it’s 12:54. I think my goal for tonight is to clear off the desktop. I can do that.
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I got here about five mintues early, but Prozac Girl and that Resolution-Crisis-Conflict woman is in my classroom. Resolution-Crisis-Conflict woman is totally INSANE. I wonder what puerile, irrelevant things she’ll blurt out in class. I don’t see Samantha or Steve yet. I have my hair up today. I wonder if I’ll keep it that way when I go to work. Probably not. It’s 10:28. I should get going.
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I left Josh’s early so I would get a good night’s sleep. I totally got paid today! $240! Which was a lot more than I thought I was going to get. I didn’t really buy much, I just bought Trillian Pro, which is the coolest thing ever:
It was only $25 for the pro version that has all these fun features:
integrated webcam for all the chat services
display pictures as icons
of course, the MSN/AIM/Y! functionality
“time travel” where you open an IM window and immediately it loads the last thing you were talking about with that person
you can record other people’s webcams
and a bunch of other poop that I haven’t played with yet
I’d used the free version for a long time (since high school) on and off and they finally released the version “that fixed all the bugs,” so I bought it. It allows you to connect to MSN, AIM, and Yahoo’s instant message services simultaneously. It’s so sweet.
I was going to buy the $115 audio card of my dreams, but Creative’s site wouldn’t take my credit card (which in hindsight is actually a good thing) so I’ve decided to buy Nero 6 for $70 and then I’ll be able to back up all my files, re-format my hard disk, and fuck with my partitions (they need fucking badly).
The good thing about this decision is that it’s not really necessary to buy it until I actually have all the time to go through with the mega-über-backup. It wouldn’t be such a task, but I haven’t backed anything up since I’ve got my system running (hence the lack of my DVD-ROM burning software, Nero) so it’s going to be a major task. I’m planning on doing it this weekend. To make sure I wouldn’t spend it, I transferred it into my savings, which is actually a really good method of convincing myself I have no money.
I’m buying this movie Session 9 also. It’s very very good. I can’t wait to watch it with the Sac Gang. That’s about everything. Me and Josh are going to Ace tomorrow to investigate duct materials. I can’t wait to have my fantasy duct of arctic air refreshing my computer! Yay. Okay, so I must get to sleep.
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Me: omg this guy in this video is jerking off to Depeche Mode. Trés chic.
Jeff : hahaha
Jeff : who?
Me: “billy”
Me: on that website
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I had a bit of an anger attack at work, it was one of those things where you get asked to do something that takes fifteen minutes and you are asked after one minute whether it is done. Grr. Oh well. But afterwards I was talking to my boss about the applications of the database software to help a lot of our functions, and he was very pleased. I’ll get to play once the tech guy puts the program onto one of the servers instead of my boss’s computer. Well, there was no one in my classroom so I came into the library to blog. Amanda was sitting in the lounge talking at some poor man. I came here at about four and she was talking at him, so let’s see…he’s been there an hour. I must call my mom tonight or she’ll never forgive me. I’m glad I’m so busy. I haven’t had time to ruminate on my existence. Yay. But I am redoubled in my efforts to find someone hot to have sex with. I mean, I have good novels to read, stimulating things to write about…all that’s left out of the equation is sex with someone that loves me. That would be sweet. Shit! It’s 5:16. Must get to class.
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