You know, just once I’d like ONE great thing to go the way I want it to…

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. “A special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company turning.” So give that special sysadmin in your life a gift to show your appreciation. Whether it’s a free pizza, sports car, hug, or big wet kiss.

Soylent Pizza is made out of PEOPLE! (Yeah, it’s grainy, the only camera available at the time sucked)

Well… since I apparently can’t learn programming in college quite yet. I’m just going to try to teach myself. I think Python is a good OOP language to start with. I’m taking a look at this tutorial.

Yes, I’m ranting again…

Currently trying to do something with my fscked up life. What am I doing? It seems like all I do is get up, go to work, come home… deal with whatever bullshit is going on, mess around with tech stuff (which I don’t seem to have the time nor drive to get interested in), go to bed, and start the process all over. None of my friends ever want to come see me because I live too far away, and their gas apparently is more important that seeing me. Maybe that’s just their excuse because they don’t want to be around me. I’m getting tired of coming home from work everyday wondering what debt collector is after us, or what utility is cut off. I don’t understand our capitalist society… This whole country revolves around one thing. Money. If you don’t have it, they’ll say “fsck you” and cut your electric off or throw you out of your home without a thought on their conscience. People really sicken me. All of them. I’m thinking of going off into solitude for a while like Thoreau did, or something.

Yesterday, a bunch of friends and family folk (well, just the men) went and hung out in the woods and shot guns . For some reason, I didn’t go, (my excuse was it was too hot, well it was 95 freakin degrees out in the woods for 4 hours). Even though my dad went, (and didn’t even TELL me, if I knew he was going, I would have gone too). My excuse probably wasn’t the real reason. I don’t like “male-only” type of get togethers. I’m not that kind of person. I like guns, and I know I would have had fun shooting them. What I hate even more is that some of them missed me there, and wished I had gone.

On a somewhat related note. I wish people would be a little more careful when they talk about my family members a certain way, particularly my father. I know he screws up alot, but I know he tries, and he gets credit for that

I think I had about a bazillion instances lately where I wanted to blog about my bad day or something cool that happened, but I was too tired/sick/apathetic to make a post.

This is a post to make up for that void.

I’m sure this kind of advertising could never be shown in American mainstream media.

For some reason my sfan2 connector on my motherboard suddenly fried… thankfully, that’s ALL that got fried and I still have another connector for the fan. Not sure why or how it happened.

Thanks to the generous help of some friends, I was able to finish building my amd64 machine. Here are the specs:

• CPU: AMD Athon64 3000+ Venice Socket 939 ($146)
• Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4 with nVidia nforce 4 chipset and onboard audio/LAN/PCI-E ($90)
• HDD: Hitachi Deskstar 164.7GB SATA 7200 RPM ($90)
• DVD: LG GWA-4131B DVD-RW drive ($65)
• Kingston 512MB DDR400 RAM ($38)
• Graphics: nVidia GeForce FX 5200 PCI (lifted from an older computer) ($70)

I need a floppy disk drive, a surge protector, a monitor (duh), and a wireless router.

Already got this stuff. $10 for the surge protector, the monitor and floppy drive were free because I got them from a friend, $25 for the router.

Wow, what a strange week. I had good times and bad times (mostly at work)… I can’t believe the damaging effects that small mistakes can cause. Anyway, it happened and it wasn’t TOO bad. I just think things at my job are getting iffy. I feel like I don’t have any use there, and alot of days there’s never anything to do. My managers seem to be getting frustrated with me at times. I’m kinda getting frustrated with myself as well.

Anyway, good news in the next post.

Well, one of the cats, Moo (because he was a huge cat and was black and white in color) died suddenly today. We buried him in the backyard. My parents loved him, but I didn’t know him very well. I can’t seem to get very attached to pets, but I’m sure that would change once I got my own.

That’s compounded onto the fact that ODU doesn’t have a statement of non-filing, therefore, I cannot apply for financial aid when I go there… not until I’m 24 years of age and considered independent. Really, at the stage I’m at now, the people I’m supposed to be depending on are not dependable at all. So one would wonder if I’m really dependent or not. Anyway, there’s more to this story, but I don’t feel like getting into it right now.

Fsck Mondays. The rest of this week better be gold to make up for today.

Recently, I got myself a Sears Gold MasterCard. Since I have no credit, I only have a $250 credit limit, but that’s good because I won’t ever have to pay more than $10 a month (really, when I get my first bill, I’m going to pay off about $40 of what I accrued so far). I like the extra freedom of having a credit card, and learning the responsibilities of credit. It’ll even help build me up and get me back on my feet financially. I can also buy stuff online without having to use that stupid debit card. :)

Today, I bought a blue hat.

Global Advanced Personality Test

Stability results were moderately low which suggests you are worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.

Orderliness results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and fun.

Extraversion results were medium which suggests you are moderately talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting.

Trait snapshot:
changeable, in the middle, suspicious, somewhat traditional, dislikes chaos, down to earth, group oriented, practical… you scored in the middle on the overall factors of this test.