I just got done annotating the camping photos with titles and descriptions. Check them out!
I would recommend starting at the first picture and going backwards to the last one I took. Here are some highlights:
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I’m SO damn tired and my body feels like I got trapped inside a cement mixer…but we had obscenely large amounts of fun. I’m going to upload the pics now (thanks to my handy-dandy iPod dock/USB hub, I don’t have to unplug anything), and add descriptions of them and a whole post about the trip tomorrow.
I’m going to write descriptions and everything for my camping photos, but if you must see them now they’re under my camping tag.
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I’m off to this place a few miles after Patrick’s Creek to go camping with Matt and the gang. It should be fun, and even if not, I’ll be out in the beautiful forest!
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As you might be able to tell from my endless blogging, I read a lot of blogs. I had been using the RSS reader Vienna, because it was free, but today I felt like going to the wild side and trying out endo, a feature-rich RSS reader (so feature-rich that the darn thing costs $17).
Is it worth my hard-earned $17? Probably. Rather than write a review, I’m just going to list pros and cons
Vienna:
Pros:
Simple, clean interface; free
Cons:
Unread message count is always 1,000+ with no way to change it
No support for RSS torrents
endo:
Pros: Extremely advanced preferences screen, can customize anything; supports RSS torents; translucent indicator shows up to show you new messages
Cons: RSS torrent support is odd…they download in a different window and you can’t see them in the reader; the built-in video player chops off the top half of Amanda Congdon’s head when I watch Rocketboom; interface is so streamlined that it’s difficult to find what you’re looking for at times, the buttons keep jumping around because the software thinks I’m trying to drag them.
Well, I guess the final showdown will come when my 21-day trial is over. I included screenshots of endo and Vienna on my flickr account for no apparent reason.
I had a great and very long talk with Nick (Amanda’s ex-paramour) today, he seems like a pretty cool guy. I’m loving the fact that I don’t have to get up tomorrow for that stupid biology class. W00t!
The main thing I like about endo is that you can customize which feeds you are notified about. People post on Boing Boing like every ten minutes and I don’t care, but I want to know when Amanda or Ryn posts new stuff or I get a comment on one of my photos, and with endo you can tell it what’s important and what’s not. The test of endo’s mettle will be when I wake up tomorrow morning and start reading.
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“I’ve cooked so much in my lifetime that if I never cooked again it wouldn’t bother me.” –My Mom
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I don’t remember if I wrote this or not, but I found out from my insurance company’s website that they paid $12,000 on the claim for those people I hit.
Twelve. Thousand. Dollars.
Those damn Jehovah’s Witnesses got everything.
Oh well, they were nice people.
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I’m reading Sean’s vampire story, and it is TERRIBLE. I don’t even know where to begin. This goes on display in my semantic abortion hall of fame, which includes such wonders as:
“And not just Asia.”
and “A rip goal to slowly peel as she gets older.”
This piece of crap is making me want to write something to make up for that vampire story’s patheticness.
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I’m giving notice Monday, and if all goes according to plan I’m going to be leaving June 9.
How crazy.
To continue my quest to divorce myself completely from reality, I’ve decided to finish A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious. I didn’t want to finish it because I hear the ending was really sad, but the writing is superb so I can’t help myself. I’ve been reading it all day.
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I guess I haven’t really elucidated on my plans for leaving. Long story short: I’m giving notice on Monday. After that, all I need to do is request my transcripts from College of the Redwoods, put all my stuff in boxes, but the boxes in the car, and get on the road.
I guess I thought it would be a lot more complicated than that. But no. I’m going to get my passport done tomorrow (I couldn’t take any good photos today for some reason). And I’m going to turn in the transcript application tomorrow. I feel like there’s some big thing that I’m forgetting, but there isn’t.
I’m leaving.
FREAKING FINALLY!!!!
After I pass that Del Norte County line I’m going to get out of my car and do a victory dance.
Since I have absolutely no money for books, I have taken to reading novels that I don’t remember too well over again, starting with Jean-Jacques Rosseau’s The Social Contract. I read it when I was like 17 and I can’t remember too much about it. Maybe my three more years of experience since then will have taught me a valuable lesson about politics.
I doubt it though.
I’m not going to take any furniture besides by computer desk, and the only big appliance-ish things that I have are my record player and my monitor. I’m taking my bookcase, but that doesn’t really count. I’m counting on my spatial relationship skills to tell me that I can fit it all in there. My backseat folds down so I will be able to also cram my keyboard in there as well. It is going to be so cathartic to pack all my stuff up.
I didn’t get a lot done today because I wanted to play with my new toy (my shiny new iPod dock/USB hub) that was supposed to be delivered by FedEx today. I swear, every time I deal with FedEx I just want to shoot somebody. This time, their tracking site says that it is out for delivery but since it is 12:35 a.m. now with no delivery in sight, I doubt that is the case.
As I was telling a friend earlier, FedEx just needs to commit suicide. If they can’t handle something as simple as delivering a package, they just fail. They should be incorporated into the Postal Service as a tribute to their unceasing, relentless ineptitude.
My mom put a bunch of money in my account. It wasn’t a whole lot, but enough to get my passport and then some. She had promised to help me with my memory upgrade for my computer if I got good grades, which I did:
Cinema: History of Cinema, Sound to Present – A
Biology: Natural History – C
Psychology: Lifespan Development – A
I would say I did fine. My GPA something like 2.9. While that isn’t stellar, there are people who would kill for my credits and GPA.
But I can’t do the memory upgrade until I have a job down there. Damn world.
I couldn’t help but feel that today was a letdown. No iPod dock/USB hub for me. And I even left work a little bit early because I thought it might be waiting at home for me. Oh well, I should stop complaining.
I would talk about my plan to live with my grandma (or at the very least store my stuff there), but I’m afraid my dad will overhear. He fucks up everything, so I’m not going to talk about it while he’s in the house.
I finally had that conversation with Ryn today about her blog. She had no idea that I was the person that commented… I guess my mugshot on my blog looks nothing like me. Hm.
Well, I guess I should be getting to bed. Rousseau is calling me.
(PS: Now that I can run my good voice-rec in the virtual machine, my posts will be much longer now, as I don’t have to endure the pain of typing them.)
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