Category: Uhm

When it fits nowhere else.

Number 104

Counter, Cross eyed, Cassie, Sarah, BIke, and Cruise.

Hmmm, what has happened…

I have a new counter and a poll now. I got pissed at sitemeter and switched, but I might switch again, I dont know. Will see.

I learned last night that if you are very tired and you try to read a EULA, it will make you cross eyed. Not fun. I suggest you avoid it.

I haven’t seen Cassie since Thursday night. She has been sick, so slept alot of the weekend.

I was informed that someone was upset by the fact I accidentally did not capitalize their name. I am sorry. Capitalization is one thing I do try and do, even if I accidentally spell the word wrong. I wont let it happen again.

It has been trying to get warm out. Hopefully I can get a bike ride in soon, I need to get my bike over to in for a spring tune/clean up though. Yeah, it costs a few $$, but they fill do a better job that I will, and have the right tools to do it too. Not sure if I will take it to Bicycle Village where i bought it or somewhere in town though. Will need to call around for prices tomorrow I guess.

What else…

Blogs have been kinda short. I don’t know why exactly. Well, I do, it’s because I don’t want to type a lot and generally can’t think if a lot to type, but the reason for that is what I don’t know.

Ooh, I could put up stuff about the cruise I guess. Ok, here some cruise stuff:

Sunday, March 17, 2001
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Depart: 11 PM

Monday, March 18, 2001
Frederiksted, St. Croix
Arrive: 8 AM
Depart: 4 PM

Tuesday, March 19, 2001
Castries, St. Lucia
Arrive: 8:30 AM
Depart: 5:30 PM

Wednesday, March 20th, 2001
Bridgetown, Barbados
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 6:00 PM

Thursday, March 21st, 2001
At Sea
Arrive: NA
Depart: NA

Friday, March 22nd, 2001
St. Johns, Antigua
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 5:00 PM

Saturday, March 23rd, 2001
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas
Arrive: 8:00 AM
Depart: 6:00 PM

Sunday, March 24th, 2001
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arrive: 7:00 AM

Total distance: 1,067 miles by sea + 1,908 (x2) miles by air = 4,883 miles in 1 week

So there you go, our cruise. That means 1096 days ago right now (3 years ago) I was on a ship somewhere between Antigua and St. Thomas. Also, note that those times are AST, not EST, so are 1 hour later (9 EST is 10 AST).

Would I do it again? Yes
Would I have done that one differently? No
Granted, you could argue maybe I “wasted” some tome doing stuff I didn’t like, but if I had not done it, I wouldn’t know I don’t like it, and might waste more time next time just to find out. I don’t know. It was fun though.
Most memorable activity?
Exploring EVERYTHING in the first hour with brother. It took us 3 days to figure out how to get to the last pool. It was staff only, and we couldn’t actually go to it. Bastards.

Ok, it took me like 30 minutes to get all that info, so I am done for now.

Til Thursday,

nick

“The new phone books are here, the new phone books are here! I’m somebody now!”

Birthday Week is Over!

Birthdays, No movie, Cheated, Bike, School, and Cruise memories. AND I MISSED THE 100TH POST!!

Yes, Birthday Week. It actually stretches a bit over a week really. My Grandma’s on 2-27, Lauren’s on 3-4, Erica’s on 3-6, Jim’s on 3-8, and other Erica’s on 3-12. They are 72, 20, 21, 21, and 21 respectively. So a happy belated birthday to you all.

For some reason i thought I was waiting for the 900th visit at mid month, but it was 850. That 850 came before I expected it too, which probably added to the confusion. Anyway though, Suchyta was the 850th, on 03-09-04 at 11:11 am.

What else…

I haven’t been doing much lately. Jason and Suchyta both cancelled, so I still haven’t seen LOTR:ROTK. Is at Hampton 6 until Thursday, so I give them until Wednesday and then I am just going.

Hmmm…

When you buy a pop, it is 12 or 20 or whatever fluid ounces, right? But being carbonated, a certain amount of that volume is really just suspended carbon dioxide. So the amount of the actual drink if a certain amount less. I think I may need to devise a way of measuring what amount of your pop is actually just air.

I have been looking online for a new crankset for my bike, but don’t see it happening. In all honesty mine is fine for now, there are better things to spend $$ on, and if I did replace my crankset, I would need a new chain, possible a new shifter, and definitely a new bottom bracket. So even if I went with a less expensive say $99 crank, I would need at least $100 in other stuff replaced as well. That just can’t be done right now. Heck, the bike is only worth $600. Either way, that I am putting this much thought into it is proof of one thing: It is almost biking time, and I am excited!

So…

I have to go back to school soon, Wednesday. I guess that’s not real soon yet. Next blog on Tuesday, then it will be soon. This will be week 8 I think, so am over half done with semester.

Our cruise was March 17 – 24, 2001. That means we left 3 years ago Wednesday (it was a Sunday in 2001). It was fun, except the plane, I hate plane’s. Not afraid of them or anything, the cabin pressure just screws my ears up bad.

Ok, that is enough for now.

I will see you all on Tuesday.

nick

Things that just shouldn’t go into children’s books:

“Are you my mommy?”
“No, but if you want, you can call be Daddy.”

PS

I am a moron

It’s 4:20 am Sunday now, and I just noticed that the last post on Wednesday was my 100th blog posting. I can’t believe I missed it. It’s one of the magic miracle things I talked about endlessly, and I missed it. I am really bad with these anniversaries. Anyway, I guess happy 101st post. Maybe for my 100th on iblog I will remember. And we still have the 100th visitor and 1 year anniversaries to go too.

Me Getting Sappy

The reason for my “Happiness” and other drivel.

Ok, all three accounts at once, in order.

The first one, on February 3rd, was a girl I met online. She was great, and everything was going well. On Wednesday the 11th though, I asked if I could meet her, and she told me she had a boyfriend. Well thats nice, lead me on for 2 weeks and let me down just before Valentine’s day. Thank you.

So, I was talking to a friend online, and she really helped. Hence, the following happiness (that I actually didn’t report to you).

And then the third happiness, that you think was the second. Again, a girl online. I talked to her last Saturday and Sunday, and she seemed cool too. So I tried to set up something but she was busy all week, so I figured I would just see her online. A week later, on Sunday evening, she was online again. Sadly, only for about 10 minutes then she disappeared. So, I don’t know about this one yet.

So, thats the reason for the happiness.

So, I don’t know. I guess first, why do people post on personals sites if they’re not looking for anyone? And why do people send “icebreaker” messages and then not respond to replies? Do they get a kick out of screwing me into paying $20 for a subscription? (Jokes on them, it was a free trial.)

Anyway, enough of that.

I have watched UHF and Bogus Journey so far. I want the soundtracks to the Bill & Ted movies, but can’t find them anywhere. Most places just redirect you to Amazon who only has used versions. Suck.

Also, I got a haircut, and I went shopping.

Ok, that is all, return to your business now.

nick

1950s view of nuclear war: if a bomb falls, hide under the table
2000s view of nuclear war: were screwed
What a difference 50 years makes

I Finally Did Stuff!

Jim, Movies, eBay, Uptime, and “Soon”?

Scott and I met Jim at HCB Friday. He was exactly the same. He is leaving for the Navy, tomorrow I believe. He will be a semen, err seaman.

My movies came in today. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, Ferris Bueler’s Day Off, and UHF. I haven’t watched any yet, but will soon.

What else…

I got the money for my stuff on eBay, hopefully Nick gets some more of it up next week.

I found out my 21 days of uptime is squat. Check out these servers. Those are in days. The current leader has been up for 1741 days, or about 4.77 years. Thats insane.

I have decided we need federal guidelines for timing. There needs to be a definition of “soon”. Genji Steakhouse claimed in August that a Saginaw location was “coming soon”. They still claim the same thing. If it was “soon” six months ago, then it could be another six months from now. And even six more months from then. We need regulations that state how long “soon” is, to keep this kind of thing from happening.

Ok, thats enough. I don’t really feel like writing this anyway, I just do it for my peeps.

Yeah…

Ok, I’m going to watch my movies, see you all Tuesday.

nick

Lobotomy: when a lobotist uses a lobotom to otomize your lob.

Uhmmmm, Yeah

Just crap

It’s hard to title a ranting when you don’t know what it’s about, and harder when you know it’s about nothing.

There was another update on the website I forgot, I copied the GI Joe story onto the portfolio page.

I have passed 750 visitors now. Was on Feb 17th at 12:01 am. That means Jan-Feb was 100% higher visits than Dec-Jan (100 v. 50). At this rate, I will have 1000 visits around the beginning of May, just before the 1 year anniversary. I am currently awaiting the 2000th page view though.

I have been doing more work on new version of site. It is sucking though. I was trying to make site look like the blog, but why? It’s not like it needs to, or that the blog looks real great. Will be a while I think.

I don’t know what else. There are secrets that some of you know and some don’t, and I want to keep it that way for a bit longer. If you have no idea what I am talking about, just give it a week or so and I should be ready to say. Other than that though, life is going and I want a job. I can’t think of anything else.

Guess not much great as promised for today, but maybe Saturday.

nick

Those are the kind of people that put the “ours” in “yours”.

Who is 700?

Number 700, The year is goofy, and thats about it.

Who will be the 700th visitor? I don’t know. I have been waiting since Tuesday, but nobody came. Well, soon we will know. Speaking of which, I have re-enabled guest access to the counter, so you can peek through all my visits, or at least the past 50 or so (I think it’s 50).

I have decided that we are too trusting. We take far too much on faith. Like, the calendar. I understand the whole days thing, since there is a definite start and end, as we point toward or away from the sun (or a specific constellation in the case of the astronomical calendar). But the year is different. What are we pointing at on Jan 1st? A good way of defining a year would be to base it on the date we are pointing toward the center of the galaxy. When we next face that point, it has been a year. Now yes, a year is the time of one revolution around the sun, but that only provides a basis of time passed, but no basis for a start and end. I just don’t like the whole way this is set up, I don’t know.

Still no 700. Where are you people?

It doesn’t matter. I am leaving. My mom wants to go get shoes or something.

Bye,
nick

If you meet someone online, and fall in love,
then when you finally meet, is it still love at first sight?

Bored

Random happenings, I don’t know, just read it.

Hello all. It is about 4, and I am bored, so I am writing my update now.

Let’s see….

Well, I have done nothing since Wednesday, other than go to my JS class. Barb and her kids, my mom, and I went to Hooters at 6 afterward. Other than that though, just spent some time online playing around.

I guess I could work on the website some more, after the blog. I really need a life if I am going to do HTML for “fun”. Of course, we all knew I need a life anyway, didn’t we?

Molly keeps sleeping with me. Crazy dog. She wont sleep straight, she needs to be curled up with her chin resting on her hind legs. Takes up alot more room. Is weird.

Scott is outside plowing the street. He has scraped up alot, no idea where he is going to push it all. We will see.

My mom went for orientation for Addeco, to work at SC Johnson. Just waiting for drug test to come back, so shouldn’t be too long.

Snow was put on sidewalk at the corner, and across street in neighbors yard. They don’t have a sidewalk, so is ok.

What else…

Doobie, doobie do…
Do doobie doobie…

Hmm…

Well, I am fairly sure there was more, but I can’t think of any of it.

Apple hasn’t released anything since MacWorld. The Mac’s 20th was on the 24th, and nothing, several Tuesdays, and nothing. The supposed G5 update on the 28th has come and gone. I don’t
know what’s going on there. Only real news is Virginia Tech is upgrading there 1100 G5 PowerMacs with G5 XServes, supposedly at 2.4GHz, faster than what Apple is selling currently. That will be one royally kick-ass cluster.

Ok, I am going to go look for something productive to do. If I don’t my life may drop below that “meaningful” line that I would prefer to stay above.

See you all later,

nick

“The hunger monkey is humping my leg.”

Auto Show Pics

NAIAS Pics now up, and other stuff, but mostly just the pics.

I got the pics from the auto show from Jason, he took 152. Other than that not much has happened though. The blog didn’t want to post last time, took some coercing. Went and watched a movie at State with Nick just afterward. But was a real lazy weekend.

So….

I am going to say since a photo is worth a thousand words, I must have just said over 16,000, and thats enough.

Wednesday…

nick

One saggy boob says to another saggy boob:
“We need to get some support around here, or people will think were nuts.”

Weeeeeeeeeee!

English is bad, School, Cleaning, Website, Weird noises, Pepsi/itunes, and Stories.

Hi all. Ever wonder why diner is a place, and dinner is a meal, but dessert is a place and desert is a meal? Thats weird, damn english. Would be different if I did it. None of this “phone”, “of”, or “queen”. No, in MY english, they would be “fone”, “ov” and “cueen”. I see no need for the “ph”, or the “q”. The first is easily replaced with a simple “f”, and the second with “kw” or “cu”. Besides, what good is “q”? It is the only letter dependent on another, “u”. Why not just incorporate that a “u” will follow, and drop it?

School is going fine, only 13 more weeks of it, woohoo! Then it will be nice out and I can bike, double woohoo!

I am still cleaning my room more. Is just clutter I need to move around and sort. Nothing too bad.

I might re-structure the website, and make more additions. If I do, it would screw with links from the blog though, so I would need to go through and correct the broken links. Will see.

Whooh! Three people just signed off at the same time, made a weird sound. Strange.

What else…

Ohh, To answer Scott’s question, No. He posted a comment to the last blog asking if Apple would have a Super Bowl commercial, and they will not. They will however be featured in Pepsi’s, as Pepsi is starting a deal to give away 100,000,000 songs from the itunes music store. I would like to say now that if any of you receive a winning bottle cap and decide you don’t want to download and install itunes for a free song you could just get from kazaa, I will gladly take your caps. The promotion runs from Feb. 1st to to March 31st.

Since nobody ever commented on Bionica, I will be writing a second one anyway. The first one was bad mostly because of all the introduction crap, and I think I can do better on the next one. We will see. I am also going to edit my quick story from a few weeks ago and put it in short stories on the site.

Ok, thats all for tonight, go home.

nick

Life is like a box of chocolates,
Sometimes it’s a wonderful gift,
and sometimes there full of laxatives and turn everything shitty.

Wow, 80

Record, Dumb, School, TB, Apple, Break, NAIAS, and Website.

Eighty posts, thats a new record. Blogger record was 79, tied on Wednesday.

I have compiled some reminders for the dumber people:

When in the shower, use the hair dryer to dry your hair while soaping with your other hand, saves time.
Always reduce time, as with fractions, so 10 to 5 would be 2 to 1.
If you’re low on cash, kill yourself, and collect the insurance money.

This is the last post of my vacation. My classes start Wednesday, but the online class technically starts Tuesday, on which I post, so this is it.

I was tested for TB yesterday, as an employee of the Hedge is in the hospital with it. Chances of me having it is very low, as it is only contagious when symptoms are showing, which they weren’t. Just the same, a $10 precaution isn’t bad.

Rumors are that a new G5 will debut on Jan. 20th, along with more on 10.3s least mentioned feature: Pixlet, a loss-less video codec. Pixlet is meant for pro customers, so receives little mention at consumer events, hence its mention only last year at the WWDC, and the coming G5 update.

I have accomplished less than hoped over break. I did manage 3 job apps, and site updates, but book is unfinished as is room cleaning. I did make dents though, and did something else, not sure what…

NAIAS trip is tomorrow. I haven’t been there in three years. Maybe I can convince the guy at GMs private area I am still an employee? Free pop and snacks, WOOHOO!

I played with site and blog last night. I shrank the banner image on site to 600 pixels long, from 800. 800 was too long, and 600 seems short. I presume most of you are using a 1024×768 resolution, so I am aiming for something neutral on that. As for blog, I was playing with the style-sheets that control all the colors, but cant find one I really like. I want to change both blog and website theme to A) match each other, and B) look not so cheesy-beginner-esque. Will do some trials on own, and post for your amusement when I find what I like.

Ok, I am tired, so heading to bed.

Till Tuesday,
nick

Being an assisted suicide physician is a nice job, because even if the customer really doesn’t like your work, they still can’t complain.