I got my new laptop! :)
Cute 'lil powerbook g4. It's taking a bit of getting used to 'cause I've never used a mac before, but Jaguar seems quite nice. The laptop itself is getting a bit hot after a hour or two, but not nearly as bad as the Vaio was. Anyways, I'll take some laptop pr0n later.
off to play with iTunes!
someone from cisco is viewing my blog.
*waves*
7 freaking credit points away from getting approved for a loan to buy a house.
alfred: I LIKE POINTERS LIKE A FAT KID LOVES CAKE
My blog would be so much cooler if I was famous.
Yes, my kid knows how to say that now. rock.
His birthday is tomorrow, so Chad and I went out shopping today. Got him a bunch of stuff that he probably won't be able to use for a little while. He's a smart kid though, he'll figure it out. I can't believe Nathan is going to be 2 years old. Fuck, I'm old.
I'm not coding today. I am forcing myself to stay far, far away from my computer until tomorrow. I'm actually at Chad's work right now using his computer, and that doesn't count. Last night I had nightmares about pointers going to the wrong places, chasing me around, just not working. I'm getting in a little too deep, I think. Too focused or something. My life has started revolving around vim and gooberssh, so I'm taking a step back for 24 hours. It's hard, because I just read some really cool stuff yesterday about how glib handles a few data structures and algorithems, and I was going to impliment that in my code. I also had some funky memory allocation stuff I wanted to try out. It's so odd. What once used to be a black hole finally makes sense to me. I'm enjoying myself a bit too much, methinks. I am a systems administrator, not a coder. Never a coder. bleh.
I'm about to stop by my work and pick up my paycheck, much needed after that little Toys 'R Us shopathon. I still have to go home and wrap all these presents, and then I've got to go buy Nathan a nice outfit to wear to his birthday party tomorrow. We were going to throw something big at Six Flags White Water, but we decided to just do a small thing at Chucky Cheeses. Man, I remember back in the day when they were Showbiz Pizza. Their pizza may suck ass (or so I've been told), but I loved them when I was a kid. I think Nathan will be the same. I'll be sure to post pics tomorrow night.
Ciao!
URRR[~gabudh@modemcable032.206-130-66.que.mc.videotron.ca] joined channel #openbsd <URRR> !LIST <Mikkey> Die. <Mikkey> Painfully, if possible. URRR has left #openbsd. <sektie> haha sektie has changed the topic on #openbsd to: openbsd! we're a warez channel! * Binkster is looking for a good site with FAST access to OpenBSD...
After messing around with the GTK module for perl (and the documentation sucks so hard, btw), I decided to be adventurous. Yes, I went for GTK in c. This is after, like, years of not coding in c. Gtk in c is such a breeze. :) The documentation makes it all really easy to follow. Hell, I have more problems with linked lists than I do making an event handler for a button. Since it's so easy to code with, I'm starting to get all kindsa neat ideas to make my life simpler while I'm at work. An ssh frontend is just the beginning!
I'm finally home, after about 25 hours of being awake. Many of those hours were spent shopping, so I'm more than a little tired. I'll probably go to sleep soon, but I'm still feeling a little hyper from the adderall I took around 9PM. With all the drama that went on, I'm still mostly distracted (and a little pissed off), so I didn't get as much coding done as I would like. I don't even think going to old navy and buying a new shirt would fix things. No more shopping for me for a while, at least until next month.
I am so in love with my new hoodie!! It's white and has a blue Roxy logo on it. It's way cute. I wore it to work tonight. I know it's August, but it's still really cold inside the NOC. Usually by morning if I've worn my day wear (strappy gap tank top, jeans) my fingernails are an interesting shade of blue. Almost matches my hair.
norma went down three times last night. Pain in my ass. Coldfusion keeps dying on the thing, which ends up killing apache as well. I really hate these solaris boxes. I'd like them if they were stable, but for how often they have services restarted, they might as well be NT 4. I know it's a long and complicated process to get these servers patched and stable and happy, but I really wish they would start on it. Hell, I wish I had the authority to do it myself. No one seems to realize it's a problem that 10 freaking sun boxes have apache freak out several times a night, though. As long as customers don't complain...well, you know the line.
I bought EQOA yesterday, and I am very impressed. I'm not sure what it is (other than the graphics), but I really like the way they handled the game play. It seems a lot different from the PC version. I only got a chance to play it for 15 minutes before I went to work, but I got my Elf Druid (they did away with High Elves, and Wood Elves are just called Elves now) up to a level 3. yay! If you play, drop me a line. I don't like grouping with people out of the blue; I prefer people I know (even if it is only online). Most people don't know how to properly group anyways. I actually saw a group of 4 clerics wandering around once. They asked me to join. Eh, no thanks!
Let's get one thing straight here.
I deleted my last entry. I don't believe in deleting blog entries. I did this for one reason, and one reason only: Chad. Yes, Sherrod, I still hate you. But I'll play nice. Chad, you didn't follow my advice, so you have no pity from me. I do this simply to keep the peace, but I WILL NOT do this again. You ask me to compromise myself by restraining my thoughts. This is my fucking blog. I'll write what I goddamn please, and if you don't like it, don't read it. If you don't like what people say to you, ignore them. Develop a thicker skin, or you'll never make it through life.
My earlier blurb was a result of built up frustration and anger which I did not allow myself to vent until now. I am not sorry I wrote it, and I am not sorry if it hurt your feelings. Deal with it.
