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Friday, May 30, 2003 I sicken myself. I just hacked a Windows registry entry. I'm not supposed to know how to do that. So much for being a pure-blooded Unix geek. [grr] Anyhow, I'm recovering from the trauma that was my dream earlier this week, and things are getting back to normal, although I'm still rather on the depressed side. :( I'm just really lonely. But nobody I know can make me un-lonely. If that makes any sense. But, enough procrastinating. I've got to go to bed now. I took a two-hour nap after work, but I'm still only half-awake. I get to see Deb tomorrow! W00t! |
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 So Tuesday morning, I had the mother of all nightmares. It was so horrible that I'm not even going to publish the contents of the dream. In fact, there is only one person I told the whole dream to, and that was really hard to do. Yes, I have trust issues, even when it comes to the anonymous masses that may surf to my web-page. Anyhow, this dream was so collosally terrifying that I woke up in the fetal position and lay there for about 10 minutes just hoping that I would die. Once I finally realized that I couldn't die just by willing it to happen, I got up and took a Xanax. It didn't help. I tried to go to work, stayed for about an hour (most of which was spent obsessing about the dream), ended up crying in my cube, came home and called Deb. You know Deb's good if I'm willing to drive a total of 2 hours to have a 1 hour session with her. So I drove out to Spring Lake in the afternoon and had a session with her. It was good. In the "OW-Stop-It!" sort of way. But I felt better afterwards, although I still have flashbacks and have to check to make sure I'm not holding someone's freshly-removed esophagus in my hands. And, on that lovely mental image, I'll move on to a happier topic. Went to work today. Most of the department went to a baseball game in the afternoon. I volunteered to stay behind and cover "on-call" for my team. Well, just before they left, it was announced that the power would be down temporarily in my building. We hurriedly shut down all the bench/desktop computers in the area, and then waited out the outage. It lasted about an hour. Then, the two of us that were still there started everything back up. Just as the last couple servers were coming on-line, the power died again. *sigh* After all the trouble we went through to cleanly shut down all the systems, they all ended up being crashed anyway. But anyway, this was going to be a good story. So, we all found out that the power would be out for the rest of the day, so most of us went home. Yee-ha! Oh, and I decided to ditch the rating system. If you're reading my page, you've just got to expect things to be wierd and disturbing. I go way to deep into life to have anything else, apparently. *whistful sigh* |
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M: Sleepy WF: Low |
Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Ye gods! Two days in a row! Anyhow, since I'm waiting for my laundry to finish, here's my movie-review-slash-rant for the evening. I finally went and saw Matrix: Reloaded. Quite frankly, it sucked. There were two good things about it: the graphics were well done and the fight scenes were well done. Unfortunately, everything that happened in the movie happened for about four times as long as it should have happened. Everything from the elevator ride to the tragic death scene dragged out FOREVER. I mean, the fight scenes were really well choreographed and everything, but we all know that Neo's going to win in the end, so there really wasn't any suspense or any reason to keep standing there and fighting. And the mosh pit scene ... sheesh, don't get me started! As I said to Melissa, they must have been thinking, "Hey, we're really good at this 'fling-people-into-the-air-in-slow-motion' thing. Let's do it for 15 minutes straight!" And how many times to we have to see Neo kick the ass of any and every person in the vicinity before we get the point that he's invincible? Apparently 3 times for half an hour each. And then there *wasn't* the plot. 'Nuf said. The point of the movie appeared to be, "Humans have choices." Special care was taken to drive this into the audience's collective conciousness (not that it appeared that they expected the audience to be conscious) in every spare minute that wasn't filled by CGI beating up other CGI. Ya know, I find that part ironic -- they're using CGI to portray a world that is actually supposed to be entirely digital... Heh... Anyhow. But, back to the point. The movie was bad. It suffered somewhat from the X2 syndrome -- namely, everything that may have been suspenseful was given away by the previews (and the fact that there's a follow-up movie coming out in 6 months). For instance, the fact that Agent Smith returned wasn't a surprise at all. Neither was that fact that there were dozens of them. They also brought it on themselves toward the end of the movie, when they were discussing the plan and, at the same time, having "flash-forwards" to the plan being executed. If they wanted any sort of attention-riviting to go on, they would have played that whole part out in sequence; maybe even skipped a few parts and done flash-backs instead. So, all these problems, coupled with gratuitous sex and blood, on top of bad acting (not the major characters, but a lot of the minor ones) left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. And I'm not talking about the nasty black-licorice Jujy Fruits that were the bane of my existance for the whole 2 hours and 18 minutes. Oh, and, the "preview" for Matrix: Revolutions is really not worth sitting through the HOUR of credits and blaring, bad music to see. |
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M: Cranky WF: Medium (yucky!) |
Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Okay, so it's been a while. And, honestly, the only reason I'm writing now is because I'm home sick. Again. See, what happened is that one of my chronic illnesses flared up and that caused another 2 or 3 of them to flare up, and, quite frankly, I would like to have all of my internal organs removed. That's why I used this background today -- it's the tool I'd like to take to certain portions of my anatomy. [grr] Oh yeah, and, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! |
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M: Let's just say... w00t!!! WF: Low |
Tuesday, May 13, 2003 Well, the high point of the day is that I FINALLY managed to create a modified bootable Solaris 2.6 CD. Jay Danielsen (from Sun Microsystems) sent me some instructions (that were wrong at first), and a neat little program that edits the VTOC on an ISO image of a disk, and I went through all the steps (it took the WHOLE DAY, what with his mistakes and mine) and AT LAST produced a working CD. I plan to post the instructions in my forth-coming Computer section, so watch for it! :) To thoroughly shift gears, I finally figured out how to manage the stomach problem I started having last Wednesday. I've stopped eating. Well, not entirely, but I eat about a third of my normal meal size in a sitting. It helps a lot. I'm not sure what's causing all this, but at least I made it through the whole day at work today. On another thoroughly unrelated note, I realized today that weather is fickle. Oh, and today's Bob and George is hilarious -- both the comic and the artist's commentary! :) |
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M: Sleepy WF: Low |
Monday, May 12, 2003 Well, here I sit, eating crackers and playing video games. My stomach is still upset, so I came home early. I got sick last Wednesday, and now I seem to get sick every time I eat. No symptoms in between times, but enough to knock me flat every time I eat. *sigh* On a thoroughly unrelated note, today's Megatokyo is hilarious. I dunno. Must be the Sys Admin in me. |
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M: Sleepy WF: Low |
Saturday, May 10, 2003 ACK! It's been WEEKS! Sorry about that! Things have been draining at work, and I usually come home and collapse (or come home and puke, you pick...). Let's see, what do I need to catch everyone up on? That guy from April 27 and April 29didn't show up at church again the next week. So, maybe he's backing off for a while. I'm not going to hold my breath, though. We'll see what happens tomorrow. Personnel issues are going on at work. I'm deliberately not going to elaborate on that here, since I'd rather wait for things to resolve so I know what I'm going to do. No sense burning bridges before I even know where they lead. If you care to know more about it, write me and I'll share. Hmmm, what else? I finished Icewind Dale and the Heart of Winter expansion. Now I'm going through again with the expansion installed, to see what the differences are. I think the video game is impacting my Final-Fantasy-D&D game, though: Last game, I surrounded the two players with masses of hideous creatures and waited for them to roll over and die. *heh* I don't think they were expecting that. My games are usually a lot less dangerous. Oh well; they're high enough level that they can handle it. Other than that, not much happening. I don't get to see Deb for 2 whole weeks, so I might go a little nuts here. Just a warning. I'll try to update a bit more often again. Sheesh! |
