There and Back Again

4 day weekends are just plain sweet. i mean, i have had two days off, and instead of tomrrow being the beginning of a new week, it is saturday tomrrow which means two more relaxed days! awesome baby.

news news news. it snowed weds. i also got a ticket weds, boo, and i also got a thanksgiving ham from work, yay, (passed up on the turkey). Then on thursday after spending a nice day with the extended fam eating turkey and gravy and all that goodness, and playing fireball island with crazy rules made up by my cousins like 10 years ago which even they were having a hard time rememvbering, I finally got to see the new harry potter movie. it was pretty good, not overly awesome, but i must say i did very much enjoy it. break hasn’t been about a whole lot more than that. basically it has been seeing people, eating some, but not too much, some hiking, some sleeping, but not too much of that either, although 8hrs a night sure is nice for a change. My grandfather always likes to have everyone say something they are thankful when we are eating thanksgiving meal together. and this year i had to think, you know, i am really thankful for where i am at right now, good job, good friends that i am still in touch with, a family i am living with and surviving, etc etc etc. so yes this is a good holiday.

So i had an off night of bowling today. by my third game i got the whole way up to 103! rather disapointing but still a fun night all in all. I think the full moon tonight made me crazy. Driving home from work i was all feeling crazy in the car and then i looked out at the night sky (i can’t be the only one who hates that it is night at 5pm?) and saw a big fool (Full) moon staring down and me and laughing at how it was making me crazy. honest.

I am in the midst of spending money. some of it is mine, some isn’t, so thats cool in its own right. I just the other day got my new memory from newegg, upgraded my good ole lappy to 1gb, enough to not fart out when i have visual studio and trillian and firefox and or premeir open. or as is more likely these days after work, when i have firefox and zoomplayer open (watching videos ie good tv) My next thing i am doing right now is ordering the same thing for my work laptop, except i get paid for that! sweet huh. I also am very tempted to get a new HD in my laptop. they have 7200rpm drives for laptops now, i am a little worried about the heat, but not so worried that i won’t do it, i mean the processor is still gonna be the thing to over heat me and i am thinkin of a way to hack my case and hook up some extra heavy duty cooling. so with a new 100gb 8mb cache hd spinning about 3,000 rpm faster than the normal stock 4200 rpm laptop drives, i will feel like a speed deamon again. The cooling system in my laptop (eMachines m5312) is the only thing i have against it. that and the out of reach second memory module that you have to completely dismantle the thing to get too. it is one of the slimist and plainest/fancy in its plainess laptops out there. that is my opinion and i am sticking by it. just look at this shot of my awsome desktop. so maybe if i figure out a kewl way to solve the overheating problem i will sell it. the idea that is. lol, yeah right, i wouldn’t sell it that is gay.

I think i just bored a lot of people, sorry. Other news is that Arrested Development is being cancelled again! silly fox network. they tried doing this at the end of last year, and then after many other people like me signed an online petition and also i think due to good dvd sales (probly more because of this?) they picked it up again for this season. but now they are planing to kill it after a 13 episode run. how annoying. Brett and I decided that they should either turn into a straight dvd release show, or go the way of iTunes and sell the episodes online for 1.99 per pop. They could make the same money that way i figure. i mean if you have about a million viewers paying 2 dollars, you have 2 mill. right? old ways of doing things need to change!!

Yeah, i need to also figure out some pyramid scheme to get me more sleep at night. becuase my original tactic of go to bed when i fall asleep is making me increasingly tired in the morning. and that makes working on this project at work harder. bye all!

I rediscovered my appreciation for a little program called stylexp the other day. If you don’t know, stylexp is one of several programs that enable you to expand upon the limited theme and style modifications that windows xp has to offer. then end result is i can have my computer look very cool and distinctive.

After another crazy fast week, i have a few good things to look back on. My main project i am working on at work is going better again. i started rewriting some of the code to organize it a little better, and by 5:45pm friday i had it back to the point where it would compile, but the pictures weren’t loading! hopefully i will have stopped the memory leaks it was having though. I then proceded to stop at messiah for the night. I got to spend some time with mike, colette, and megan who was there too for some reason. Oh, and i watched Serenity again, good movie.

I also managed to sleep in today, which was nice. real nice. i kept myself apointment free for the day, so i could wake up late and then laze around. it was one of those kinds of days i needed. I am quite tired of going from thing to thing and not having time to just sit, eat a lil, maybe watch something, and then work on some personal projects that i haven’t had time to put into yet. so right now my satisfaction levels are right up there.

Maybe i will end this nice day by going to bed early again, and having a well rested week next week?

It has been a long/short week. It has been short becuase wow, its friday already. it has been long becuase i need more sleep. This morning was the worst it has been for me yet. fell back asleep after turning my alarm off (haven’t done that in years, seriously) and then somehow woke up right at 7am. i used to think i wanted to leave at 7. thats back when i got up at 6. now I do like i did this morning and leave by 7:16 or so. as long as it is by twenty after.

Boring stuff. I have been happy to go through some of my pictures and post them, but i have up on writing captions… that is busy work and i hate that! the best part of today was when i called tech support. the way the guy on the other end answered told me right away i was going to get some good answers from him. He asked at first whether i Indeed was calling for his department, because the phone system menu got changed recently and people keep calling the wrong departments. I then said something obligatory like, ‘Oh, that makes sense’ and then he said, ‘well, no it really doesn’t, but thats the way it is’. I had to laugh, because it was true.

But true things aren’t always funny i suppose. Tomorrow i guess i am gonna visit messiah again. and do some good work for a change. I am thinking an early morning when i can get my stuff togehter that i am givin to mike, and then maybe actually make a good breakfast or something. So here’s hoping that when my alarm goes off i can handle it! could it be that i need to return to my good old 6 – 7 hrs of sleep a night?

Funny yet true story. last week i thought i should post some new journal entries, since i figured it had been since like monday when i last posted. then i looked and realized it had been since the monday before. and now a few days later even i finally get around to it. It was a true story at least.

I had a pretty great week at work last week. yeah it was cool. OHHH! nice, there is a thunderstorm going on now, ain’t that fun, a t-storm in november.. back to work though. I have been working during some of my time on setting up one of our system installs for some other guys who are too busy to do it themselves. It is a nice change of pace, a little more interaction with some co-workers than on the standard day when i have been sitting in my cube coding for most of the day. And aparantly the letters D and E are numbers. at least according to one of the included functions in this semi-basic language the one scanning software packages that we use has. The other cool thing was on friday some dude tried to hack our phone system. apparantly the type of phone system we have is one people like to hack. When it was first installed at work they had troubles the first weekend, and someone made long distance calls on it all weekend. Needless to say this time around we were prepared. The never of it though. Real hacking involves more than just coding, it is a whole methodology of presenting yourself as something other than you are, both in person and in code. this guy (probably from russia or some other country over in that area) called in claiming to be from our phone system company, and told one of my coworkers that he had a new password for him, and only needed his old password as a comfirmation. Luckily we are smart people there, but at a large corp tactics like that would totally work. even though we didn’t give him any info, a few minutes later they guy still blindly tried loging into several of the accounts. silly kid.

Outside of work i am finding more room for activities in my life as well. had a fun night bowling on last tues with my cousin peter and melissa. bowling is fun, but i did something wierd to my thumb, and it is only now starting to lose that numbish half asleep feeling… it wasn’t a good thing probably. And on saturday my sister and I invited a random group of people over for some games and smores. that turned out to be nice as well. It feels like I have had some more healthy interactions lately.

Oh, and i also have been glad of this weather. less frost on my car in the mornings, and some nice fall weather to be outside in. Last sunday i went on a short hike down at Tucquan park with laura. it is down near the susquehana and it was awesome with the fall smelling air and the leaves and …. yeah. The path followed this nice mountainish stream (you know the type, clear rushing water… it was cool) which had some pretty cool spots where it had carved interesting swirling paterns out of the rocks it was pouring over. and there was this one tree that was golden yellow, and with the sun shining on it, it looked amazing in contrast to the cool blue sky behind it. you had to see it, words mean nothing.

There is so much more, but not much of a reason to mention it. everyones life needs a little mystery right? But basically i am feeling very (or at least fairly) good about things, and so i think i am happy.

ps. i have finally gotten around to finding a photo gallery script, so you can expect to find some pictures up on my site eventually. photos.dahmage.com