Hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving. I know mine was great. Was nice and quiet. Not a lot of people up, just those who mattered. Most of the time, was goofing off, playing games (Mainly Flatout). Dinner rocked, as always. Really was one of the first really happy holidays I can remember in a while. Usually holidays around here are surrounded by assholes, or just hectic to the point that people aren't enjoying things. Kinda makes up for all the craziness at work.
I know I've not been around in quite some time. For the most part, I've just not been in the mood.
Working at "Toys B We" (not allowed to use their copyrights or trademarks, especially in blogs, as per the employee contract, so have to use this approximation). Things kinda suck there. Anal on rules, and screwy hours. Sunday I worked a 12 hour shift, but for the most part so far, they've only on average given me 12 hours (this week, since I am filling in for someone on some days, I have 27, still, only 2 weeks since I started there have I worked more than 15 hours counting this week). Still, its a paycheck.
Since I was here last, had a few deaths as well. Bill passed away, and that was particularly rough, due to how he went. Still, he had a long life, and was 23. Spam died just a week ago. She was going on 17, so had a good run as well.
For a while, I was playing a lot of Second Life. Kinda got out of it, too much drama, and also the client is a horrid buggy piece of shit.
Lately, mostly been watching different TV shows I've downloaded. Have the Mac mini hooked up to the TV, and using that. Great for video podcasts and what not. Also trying to work on getting a mythbox together. Already have the tuner card (pcHDTV HD-3000), and most of the parts. Now just need to get a hard drive in it, and start getting things set up.
Monstershit has been back up and running. Happy about that. Turns out the CPU fan was dying, and so wouldn't always start. Got the fan running for a while, but it was just a temporary thing. New heatsink and fan on today, keeping things a little better. Idle temps are a bit too hot for my taste (~120F), but the top temp is inline with what they used to be (~130F). Odd how it has such a short range.
Also, have had the start of birthday goodness. Yesterday, received a brand new 3rd gen iPod Nano from some really good friends of mine. Thing is really tiny, and sounds great. Plus awesome battery life. I really appreciate it, but still think it was too much.
Plus, fixed a few issues on the blog. For a while, it decided to not let me log in, which was quite annoying.
Damn, its been crazy lately. Like today, Nana decided to give birth to a bouncing baby boy. Totally unexpected, because based off what we were told, she shouldnt have been due for another 3 months (and didn't look that far along either).
Things have been hell here lately.
I know I haven't posted in a while, but that is due to various issues, mainly being my net connection being down more than it is up. When it has been up, it has been horribly slow, like how it has been the last few days, where it was going at 20kbps and slower (Monday night, 4kbps). When you're having speeds like that, and 40%+ packet loss, it may as well be completely down. Plus, Got a new hard drive in Monstershit, got everything installed on the new drive, migrated everything over, only to have monstershit have it's CPU burn out 4 days later (freezes on boot now).
Yes, I am still doing the Wii exercise thing, and have everything written down, and will be adding that info shortly.
Also, I upgraded the blog software, so hopefully won't be getting any more spam.
